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SectionⅠ Starting out & Understanding ideas—Comprehension
[对应学生用书P125]
1.weekly adj.一周一次的,每周的→week n.周,星期
2.inspector n.检查员,巡视员→inspect v.检查;查看;视察→inspection n.检查;查看;视察
3.insist v.坚称,坚决认为→ insistence n.坚持,坚决要求
4.secrecy n.保密,秘密状态→secret n.秘密;秘诀 adj.秘密的→secretly adv.秘密地
5.shaving n.刮胡子→shave v.刮胡子,剃(须发)
6.faintly adv.微弱地;模糊地→faint adj.微弱的;模糊的
7.dispose v.排列,布置→disposition n.排列,布置,安排;倾向
8.prospect n.开阔的景观,景色→prospective adj.预期的;可能的
9.innocent adj.天真无邪的→innocence n.天真,纯真;清白,无辜
10.enhance v.改进;增强→enhancement n.改进;增强;提高
1.突然发生,爆发 break out
2.多次 on a number of occasions
3.谈及 say of
4.冒着……的风险 at the risk of ...
5.说个不停,喋喋不休 talk away
6.把……转变成…… transform ...into ...
7.在阳光普照下 in full sunlight
8.大量,大批 a body of
9.与……相隔 be apart from
1.句型公式:by the time 引导时间状语从句
教材原句:Then the sun came out,and by the time I had sat down to breakfast it was shining bravely and flushing the snow with delicate pinks.
翻译:接着太阳出来了,等到我坐下来吃早餐时,太阳的光彩已是绚烂夺目,给雪地添了一抹柔和的粉红色。
2.句型公式:as if引导表语从句
教材原句:It was as if our kindly countryside,close to the very heart of England,had been turned into a cruel grassland.
翻译:就好像我们这个靠近英格兰中心位置的亲切小乡村变成了暴躁的草原。
[对应学生用书P125]
First Snow
Mr Robert Lynd once said of①Jane Austen's characters: “They are people ❶in whose lives a slight fall of snow is an event.” Even at the risk of② appearing to this fair and witty③ reviewer as another Mr Woodhouse,I must insist④ that last night's fall of snow here was an event. I was nearly as excited about it this morning as the children,❷whom I found all looking through the window at the magic outside and talking away⑤ as excitedly ❸as if Christmas had suddenly come round⑥ again.The fact is,however,❹that the snow was as strange and fascinating to me ❺as it was to them.It is the first fall ❻we have had here this winter,and last year I was out of the country,❼sweating in a hot climate,during the snowy season,so that it really ❽does seem an age since I saw the ground so fantastically carpeted⑦.
The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is