Unit 1 Science Fiction教材助读1-【状元桥·优质课堂】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册（人教版2019）

UNIT SCIENCE FICTION 教材助读1 难词注解 教材原文」 课文翻译 <1>satisfaction n.[U. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 包你满意 C]满意；满足：令人满 (Adapted) (改编版) 意的事 拉里·贝尔蒙特 Larry Belmont worked for a <2>guarantee u.&n.[C] 在一家机器人制造公 保证：担保 company that made robots.Recently it 司工作。该公司最近 under guarantee在保 had begun experimenting with a 开始试验家用机器人。 修期内 household robot.It was going to be tested out 这个测试将由拉里的 〈3>adapt vt.改编，改写 by Larry's wife,Claire. 妻子克莱尔来进行。 〈4)experiment with… Claire didn't want the robot in her house, 克莱尔并不想家 用…做实验，试用… 里有个机器人，尤其 (5>test out检验；测试 especially Das her husband would be away on a 是在她丈夫要出差三 〈6)on a business trip出差 business trip for three weeks,but Larry 周的时候，但是拉里 〈7)persuade vt.使相信； persuaded"her that the robot wouldn't harm her 劝她说机器人不会伤 使信服 or allow her to be harmed.It would be a bonus. 害她，也不会让她受 <8>bonus/'bounas/n.[C] 意外收获：奖金：红利 However,when she first saw the robot,she felt 到伤害。它还会是个 意外收获。然而，第 (9>feel alarmed感到害怕 alarmed.His name was Tony.He seemed more 一次看到机器人时， alarm v.使惊恐；使担心 like a human than a machine.He was tall and 克莱尔还是感到惊 alarming adj.令人担忧 handsome with smooth hair and a deep voice, 慌。这个机器人名叫 的：令人恐慌的 托尼。他看起来更像 〈10>more like更像是： although his facial expression never changed. 更接近 ①此处是as引导的时间状语从句，as在此意为 一个人，而不是一台 more like A than B更 “当…的时候”。 机器。托尼高大英 像A而不像B 俊，头发顺滑，嗓音低 On the second morning,Tony brought her ll)help dressing属于 沉，不过他的面部表 “help(in)doing sth" breakfast and then asked her 2 whether she 情始终不变。 的用法，help是名词， needed help dressing.She felt embarrassed 第二天早晨，托尼 作动词needed的宾语。 and quickly told him to go.Now she was being 给克莱尔端来了早餐， 〈12>embarrassed ad.尴 looked after by a robot that looked so human, 还问她是否需要帮忙 尬的，窘迫的 穿衣打扮。克莱尔感到 and it was disturbing embarrass vt.使窘迫； 非常尴尬，立刻让托尼 使尴尬 ②此处的whether引导宾语从句。 走开。现在，她正由一 embarrassing adj..令人 One day,Claire mentioned that she didn't 个看起来这么像人类 尴尬的 think she was clever.Tony said that she must feel 的机器人照料着，这很 l3)disturbing adj.令 very unhappy③to say that..④Claire thought it 令人不安。 人不安的；引起烦恼的 was ridiculous that she was being offered 有一天，克