内容正文:
译林 必修第二册
Unit 4
Period 1
Welcome to the unit & Reading(II)
( 英语 )
ENGLISH
Reading要点讲解 - Para.1
A child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low(低沉), musical(悦耳) sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them with wonder. Then the man explained that the child heard nothing strange, and that the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. What amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old.
1. sb. be doing...when ... 某人正在走某事时,突然...
2. sb. be about to ....when ....某人正要做某事时,突然....
3. a range of : 一系列;各种
4. faint:(光、声、味)微弱的,不清楚的
Para. 1
with/in wonder
惊奇地
hold sth. to one’s ears
把某物放到某人耳边
all kinds of =all sorts of
The wonder of literature
1. A child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, musical sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them with wonder. Then the man explained that the child heard nothing strange, and that the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. What amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old.
孩子和男人在海滩上散步,孩子发现了一枚贝壳,把它放到了耳边。突然,他听到了奇怪、低沉、悦耳的声音。这声音仿佛来自另一个世界,孩子听后十分惊奇。随后男子解释说,孩子听到的声音没有什么奇怪的,只不过是贝壳捕捉到了种种对于人的耳朵来说过于微弱的声音而已。让孩子为之惊奇的其实不是一个新世界,而是旧世界那被人忽视的乐音。
be doing...when...意为“正在(要)......突然......”,用于表示当某人或某物正在或正要做某事,就在这时突然又发生了另一件事。这个句型中when不能换成while或as。
例:
1. I was watching the football match when he came in.
2. We were talking when he suddenly took his jacket and ran away.
我正在看足球赛,突然他进来了。我们正聊着呢,突然他就拿着夹克跑开了。
5
be about to do/ be on the point of doing…when…
即将做......突然......
had (just) done…when… 刚做完......突然......
拓展链接:
1. We were about to start when it began to rain.
2. I was on the point of giving up when Tom appeared.
3. I had just gone to bed when the pho