Unit1 SectionⅢ Using Language-【精讲精练】2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修第四册人教版（教师用书）

Section Ⅲ　Using Language

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THE TIME MACHINE(Adapted)

❶It was at ten o'clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat① myself in the leather② seat.  I pushed the starting lever③ on the main panel④ forwards an inch⑤ then immediately backwards⑥ again.  Looking around⑦， I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock.  A moment before, it was a minute or so⑧ past ten; now it was nearly half past three!

❶为强调句：it is＋被强调部分＋that...，在句中强调时间状语at ten o'clock today。

I drew a breath, gripped⑨ the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy⑩ around me.  My niece⑪ came in to fetch⑫ something, maybe her handkerchief⑬， apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. ❷Night came as if a lamp⑭ was being turned out⑮， and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped⑯ to day, again and again, faster and faster still.

❷为并列连词and连接的两个并列分句。第一个分句中的as if引导方式状语从句；第二个分句是介词短语前置引起的完全倒装句。

It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. ❸As my pace⑰ grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away⑱， and I was left in the open air⑲. ❹The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division⑳ between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread, and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up， then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed, melting and flowing before my eyes.  I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.

❸为复合句。句中as引导时间状语从句，意为“随着”。

❹中的as if引导表语从句。

I had a strong urge to look at the random things that were being flashed before my eyes! I had thought about the risk of stopping the Time Machine many times.  ❺So long as I

travelled at maximum speed, it didn't matter. But if I stopped and the same space was being occupied by something else, we would be forced together and explode like a bomb! Like an impatient fool, I pulled the lever backwards hard. With a sudden jolt， the Time Machine was flipped  on its side, and I was thrown through the air.

❺为复合句。句中so long as引导条件状语从句。

I was stunned for a moment, and then heard the sound of thunder. I was sitting in the rain in some mud next to the machine. ❻“A fine welcome，” I said, “for a man who has travelled thousands of years to be here！”

❻为复合句。句中who引导定语从句，修饰先行词a man。

语料积累

①sit vt.使坐下；使就座

sit oneself坐下；就座

②leather n．皮革；[pl.]皮衣；皮外套

③lever  n．操纵杆；杠杆

④panel n．控制板；仪表盘；专家咨询组

⑤inch n．英寸(长度单位，等于2.54厘米)

⑥backwards adv.向后；倒着；往回

⑦look around环顾四周

⑧or so  大约

⑨grip vt.&vi.紧握；抓紧

⑩hazy adj.模糊的；朦胧的；困惑的

⑪niece  n．侄女；外甥女

⑫fetch  vt.(去)拿来；(去)请来

⑬handkerchief n．手帕；纸巾

⑭lamp  n．灯；台灯

⑮turn out关掉；熄灭；在场；使朝外；结果是

⑯skip vt.跳过；快速移动

⑰pace  n．速度；步伐；节奏vt.&vi.确定速度；调整节奏

⑱fall away (逐渐)减少；消失

⑲in the open air在露天里，在室外

⑳division n．分开；分隔；差异；除(法)

puff n．(烟、气等的)一缕；少量；喘息

rise up  上升；升起

urge  n．强烈的欲望；冲动vt.催促；力劝；大力推荐

have an urge to do sth有强烈的欲望做某事

random adj.随机的；不可思议的

flash vi.闪光；闪现

maximum adj.最大极限的 n．最大量；最大限度

at maximum speed以最大速度

explode vi.&vt.爆炸；爆破

jolt n．震动；摇晃；颠簸vt.&vi.(使)震动；摇晃

flip vt.&vi.(使)快速翻转；(用手指)轻抛

stun vt.使震惊；使昏迷

mud n．泥；泥浆

课文译文

时间机器

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上午十点，所有时间机器中的第一台启动了其运转之旅。我最后检查了一遍机器，然后坐在皮椅上。我把主面板上的启动杆往前推了一英寸，然后又立刻向后拉。环顾四周，我看到实验室与以前一模一样。发生什么事了吗？我以为我的大脑欺骗了我。然后我看了下时钟。片刻之前，大概是十点零一分，而现在已经快三点半了！

我吸了一口气，一把抓住操纵杆，往前推了一下。实验室在我身边变得模糊不清。我的侄女进来拿东西，也许是拿她的手帕，但她显然没看见我。她大约花了一分钟时间，但在我看来，她的动作快如火箭！我把操纵杆再往前推了下。夜幕降临了，仿佛一盏灯正在熄灭，转眼间，白昼就来临了。第二天夜晚降临，接着又跃进到白天。如此反复，越来越快。

时间旅行带来的陌生感和不适感是难以解释的。我感到我好像坐在一部汽车里，飞驰在蜿蜒的道路上。我的速度越来越快，实验室的墙壁随之坍塌，我置身野外。太阳和月亮看起来似乎正被抛向天空，但是很快就有了昼夜之分。环顾四周，我看到树木似青烟升起，不断生长，变得枝繁叶茂，片刻之后枯亡。我看到大楼拔地而起，继而消逝，犹如梦中。地球的整个表面都在变化，在我的眼前熔化、流动。我估算我一分钟要穿越数百年的时间。

我有一种强烈的欲望，想看看眼前那些随机闪现的东西！我已多次考虑过停下时间机器的风险。只要我以最高的速度前进，就不会有什么问题。但是，如果我停下来，同一空间被别的东西占据，我们就会被挤在一起，然后像炸弹一样爆炸！我就像一个失去耐心的傻瓜，