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Lesson 30 Football or polo
1. polo n.水球
2. Wayle n. 威尔(河名)
3. cut v. 穿过
4. row v. 划船
5. kick v. 提
6. towards prep. 朝,向
7. nearly adv. 几乎
8. sight n.眼界,视域
★polo n. 水球
★Wayle n. 威尔(河名)
the Wayle 威尔(特指)
Words Study
★cut v. 1.分开,穿过 2切,砍,剪,
cut-cut-cut
一条小溪穿过田野。
A brook cuts the field.
当詹妮做衣服的时候她割伤了她的手指。
Jenny cut her finger while she was making a dress.
固定短语:
cut across走捷径,穿过去= go through
cut down削减,压缩
cut in插进来说,插嘴
have one’s hair cut理发
★row v. 划(船)n.一列,一行,一排(座位)
他们划船过了河。
They rowed the boat across the river.
你在第几排?我在第四排。
What row are you in? I’m in Row Four.
去划船 go for a row = go boating
★towards prep. in the direction of sb./sth. 朝,向
他朝门口走去。
He walked towards the door.
同义词辨析:towards, to
towards只表示朝着目标移动,如:
我们朝北京方向驶去
We drove towards Beijing.
to含有到达之意,如我们开车去北京。
We drove to Beijing.
★kick v. 踢
不要把球踢到河里。
Don’t kick the ball into the river.
我在足球比赛中提进一球。
I kicked a goal in the football match.
★nearly adv. 几乎
这份工作几乎要完成了
The job is nearly finished.
她快要死了
She nearly died.
同义词辨析:almost, nearly
almost, nearly虽然都可以表示“几乎”但是当要表示“接近”或“就要到了”时最好用nearly;当要表示“不足’或’尚差一点儿”时最好用almost
e.g. He’s only forty-one years old, and he has already been to ___ every country in the world.
Dreams of finding lost treasure _____ came true recently.
nearly
almost
有时almost和nearly可以换用,但如果要表示’差一点儿“还是用almost确切
我差一点没摔倒。
I almost fell down.
句中有no, none, nothing, never等词时,不可以用nearly,但可以用almost.
★ sight n. 眼界,视域
他们在海上三天后才首次见到陆地。
Their first sight of land came after three days at sea.
她在一次事故中失去了视力。
She lost her sight in an accident.
catch sight of 看见
我看到在公共汽车的后面有一个空座位。
I caught sight of an empty seat at the back of the bus.
in sight:在视线之内
突然一只鸟出现在视线之内。
Suddenly a bird came in sight.
(反)out of sight:在视线之外,看不到
to put sth. out of sight 藏起某物。
Out of sight, out of mind.
眼不见,心不烦。
One love at the first sight.
一见钟情。
long sighted /short sighted
目光长远,远视眼/目光短浅,近视
go sightseeing观光
1.The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the par