内容正文:
UNIT 4 JOURNEY ACROSS A VAST LAND
Section A Reading and Thinking
课文知识点
SEEING THE TRUE NORTH VIA RAIL: VANCOUVER AND THE HEART OF CANADA
坐火车看“真北方”:温哥华与加拿大腹地
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their cousins in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. Rather than travel by commercial airline all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train. For both of them, the thought of crossing the whole country by rail was exciting.
rather than
commercial airline
all the way
而不是
商业航班
一路上,自始至终
by the way
顺便说
李黛予和表妹刘倩前往加拿大探望居住在大西洋海岸哈利法克斯市的表兄妹。她们没有一路乘坐商业航班,而是决定先飞到温哥华,然后再乘坐火车。一想到可以坐火车横穿整个国家,姐妹俩就激动不已。
Rather than travel by commercial airline all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train.
rather than “而不是;不愿” = instead of
与其说……倒不如说……
rather than 为并列连词,通常用在平行结构中,连接两个并列成分,即rather than 前后两部分在成分和形式上应该一致。并列成分可以是动词、名词、代词、形容词、介词短语、动名词、分句、不定式等。
语境感知
① He ran rather than walked.
②They saw many goats rather than grizzly bears.
③The scenery was awesome rather than uninviting.
④We’ll have the meeting in the classroom, rather than in the great hall.
rather than连接的两个并列成分作主语时,谓语v遵循就远原则
是你而不是我要去野营。You rather than I _____ going to go camping.
are
rather than后接不定式时,不定式可以带to,也可以不带to,但当rather than位于句首时,只能接不带to的不定式。
Rather than travel by commercial airline all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train.
what does “rather than” mean in the sentence?
let’s look at these two sentences.
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which one do you think is right?
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yes, the second sentence is right.
They preferred to fly to Vancouver and then take the train.
so, the phrase“rather than” is used to introduce an idea that is different or opposite to the idea that you have.
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just like “instead of”.
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prefer to do…rather than do…
=would do …rather than do
=would rather do… than do
=prefer doing to doing
宁愿做……也不做……
He prefers to stay at home rather than go to see a film.
=he would stay at home rather than go to see a film.
=he would rather stay at