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Unit 6 understanding ideas
Language points
Picking up a free newspaper at the Tube station, I see the title “Hot! Hot! Hot!”. Today, the temperature in London is expected to reach 30 plus degrees! The average high temperature in July is only 22 degrees, so over 30 is not usual for London. It's going to be awful on the Central Line, with no air conditioning. Why did they have to invent the Tube before air conditioning? It's just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest lines, as well as one of the deepest. It's the hottest on the whole Tube system.
Pick up 捡起,学会(语言),拿起,搭乘接送,接收(信号,图像),好转
Pick out=select
Be expected to reach 预计达到
Expect (sb)to do 期待(sb)做
expectation unexpected
超过
More than/over+数字
= 数字+plus
degree 程度,学位
to some degree/extent 在某种程度上
One of + ns …之一
缺n:lines
省略句
It’s just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest lines, as well as one of the deepest.
本句中as well as 连接两个平行的名词短语,因为这两个名词短语中心词是“lines”,所以可以省略。一般省略后面一个重复的词。
It’s just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest lines, as well as one of the deepest lines.
=It’s just typical that my journey is on one of the oldest as well as one of the deepest lines.
省略是省略已经在句中出现过的部分,并且省略后不会影响句意
Sure enough, going down the stairs and onto the platform is like jumping into a volcano that's erupting. This, however, is nothing compared to the train. Because there's no air conditioning, the temperature inside the train can reach 35 degrees! It's lovely at the beach, but not so when you're wearing a suit and in a crowd of passengers!
果然
动名词做主语,谓语动词用三单
定语从句
一群
I'm sure the passenger next to me and I are melting and becoming one! I had bacon and eggs for breakfast, and now I'm feeling a bit sick—I hope I can make it to Bank station...I'll avoid the feeling by thinking about work. I work in a tall, glass building. One very hot summer, the sun reflected off it and melted cars parked below! Will this happen again today?
在…旁边
melt away 融化
melt-melted-melted/molten
恶心的,生病的,厌恶的
be sick of/be