Units16-17重难点解析
2008-05-13野新玉
野新玉
Unit 16
1.Wang Xiao has taken notes from a radio programme about New York City. 王晓听了介绍纽约市的电台节目并做了笔记。
note作名词,意为“笔记;摘要;注释”。常见短语take notes表示“做笔记;做记录”;take notes/a note of sth.表示“记下……”。例如:
Take notes, please! 请做笔记!
Can you take notes of what the speaker said at the meeting?
你能记下发言人在会上所说的吗?
相关链接:
make a note/notes(of)
记笔记;记录
compare notes
交流经验;交换看法
2. What does your hometown look like? 你的家乡是什么样子?
What does…look like? 用于询问某人(或某物)外表看起来如何,侧重人或事物的外表。What is sb./sth. like? 用于询问人或物内在的品质、个性或外表,以及天气。What does sb. like?用于询问某人喜欢什么。How does sb. like…?意为“某人认为……怎么样?”相当于How does sb. find…?或What does sb. think of…?用于询问某人对某事的看法。例如:
What is Tom like? 汤姆是个怎样的人?
What does Tom like? 汤姆喜欢什么?
How does Tom like the film? 汤姆认为这部电影怎么样?
3.Ever since the Civil War, the South has struggled to find ways to deal with its troubled past. 自从美国内战以来美国南部一直在设法寻找解决棘手的历史问题的方式。
(1)ever since意为“从那时起一直到现在”,既可独立使用,又可后接指时间的名词或从句。例如:
Ive been here ever since the year 1980.=I came here in 1980 and I have been here ever since.
自从1980年起到现在我一直在这儿。
He has been at my bedside (ever) since I became ill. 自从我生病以来,他一直在我床边陪伴着我。
[注意]ever since在引导时间状语从句时,主句中常用完成时态。
(2)deal with是“动词+介词”短语,意为“处理;对待;对付;论述或谈论(某问题);关于(主要指书籍、文章等的内容)”等。例如:
I dont know how to deal with the problem. 我不知道怎么样处理这个问题。
Such people are difficult to deal with.
这种人不好对付。
The book deals with problems of pollution. 这本书论述了污染问题。
相关链接:
deal with与do with的区别:
二者意义相同,但deal with中deal为不及物动词,只能在deal with后接宾语,故常与how连用。do with中的do是及物动词,须在do和with后都接宾语,故常与what连用,另外do with还有“如何打发日子”“与……相处”之意。
4.The injustices in the city and in the South led Dr King to organise non-violent demonstrations aimed at ending segregation. 这个城市和整个南方的不公正迫使金博士组织非暴力的示威,目的是结束种族隔离制度。
aimed at是过去分词短语作定语,修饰demonstrations,相当于一个定语从句which were aimed at ending segregation。
