新概念第二冊(cè)-lesson53-hot-snake

Lesson53觸電的蛇

復(fù)習(xí)提問(wèn)（1）我試圖把我的新房間收拾整齊。（2）更糟糕的是房間還非常小。（3）他和往常一樣胖。（4）顯然他感到很尷尬。肯定回答(1)Ihavebeentryingtogetmynewroominorder.(2)tomakemattersworse,theroomisrathersmall.(3)Hewasstillasfatasever.(4)Itwasobviousthathewasveryembarrassed.1whatareforestsfiresoftencausedby?2Whohasjustsolvedthemysery?

（一）新詞學(xué)習(xí)hotadj.帶電的，充電的熱的辣的hot-hot-hot:麻辣燙hot-wings:辣雞翅hot-tempered:火暴（脾氣）的hottopic:熱門(mén)話題hotdog:熱狗hotpotato:棘手的問(wèn)題hotsnake

firemann.消防隊(duì)員fireextinguisher滅火器extinguish=putout滅火causev.引起；n.原因causesth.:引起麻煩Carelessnesscausesaccidents.Examinev檢查Exam=ExaminationnAccidentallyadc意外地；偶然地Accidentn事故；意外事件Accidentally=bychance=byaccident

wireless無(wú)線的solvev.解決solvethemystery解開(kāi)謎團(tuán)解決問(wèn)題solvetheproblemsolutionn.mysteryn.謎mysteriousadj.snatchv.抓住AtlastfiremenhaveputoutabigforestfireinCalifornia.·atlast最終finally我們最終到達(dá)了山頂Wereachedthemountaintopatlast.Putput撲滅；熄滅；關(guān)掉extinguish

putoutafire:撲滅火afire:一場(chǎng)（堆）火Since

then,

they

have

been

trying

to

find

out

how

the

fire

began.

sincethen:從那時(shí)起；到現(xiàn)在為止重要：完成時(shí)的標(biāo)志打那兒起，她就努力學(xué)習(xí)了。She‘sbeenstudyinghardsincethen.

自從3月前離開(kāi)家，我就沒(méi)吃過(guò)一次盛餐。Ileftmyhomethreemonthsago,sincethenIhaven’thadabigmeal.havebeentryingto現(xiàn)在完成進(jìn)行時(shí)·findout(經(jīng)過(guò)努力研究后）找出；發(fā)現(xiàn)；查明我們遲早會(huì)查出真相Wewillfindoutthetruthearlyorlate.警察們正試著找出罪犯Policemenaretryingtofindoutthecriminals.我將試著查出昨天那個(gè)救我人的名字Iwilltrytofindoutthenamewhosavedmylifeyesterday.比較：Ifoundmykey.從那時(shí)起，他們一直試圖找出起火的原因。Forest

fires

are

often

caused

by

broken

glass

or

by

cigarette

ends

which

people

carelessly

throw

away.

becausedby…由…引起;由…造成；事故是由酒后駕車(chē)的司機(jī)造成的Theaccidentwascausedbythedrunkdriver.事故是粗心造成的Theaccidentwascausedbycarelessness.他的死亡是由高燒造成的Hisdeathwascausedbyahighfever.Brokenglass破碎的玻璃；碎玻璃Cigaretteends煙頭Cigaretteendswhichpeoplecarelesslythrowaway.Which引導(dǎo)的定語(yǔ)從句which在從句中做賓語(yǔ)Throwaway扔掉；丟棄Yesterday

the

firemen

examined

the

ground

carefully,

but

were

not

able

to

find

anybroken

glass.

昨天，消防隊(duì)員仔細(xì)檢查了地面，但沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)任何碎玻璃。were

not

able

to

find表示“沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)”Beabletodo能夠做某事Benotabletoso不能夠做某事醫(yī)生治不了這種病Thedoctorswerenotabletotreatthisdisease.我昨天無(wú)法和你聯(lián)絡(luò)上Iwasnotabletogetintouchwithyou.They

were

also

quite

sure

that

a

cigarette

end

did

not

start

the

fire.

他們還十分肯定火災(zāi)也不是由煙頭引起的。·besurethat:對(duì)…很有把握Startthefire=causethefire引發(fā)火災(zāi)重要：quiteafew:頗有幾個(gè)（相當(dāng)多的）manyThis

morning,

however，a

fireman

accidentally

discovered

the

cause.

然而今天上午，一個(gè)消防隊(duì)覓偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了起火的原因。Accidentally=bychance=byaccident偶然He

noticed

the

remains

of

a

snake

which

was

wound

round

the

electric

wires

of

a16,000-

vcrfl

power

fine.

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)1本句中which引導(dǎo)定語(yǔ)從句。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)2

the

remains在表示“殘骸”時(shí)必須使用復(fù)數(shù)形式。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)3

wound是wind的過(guò)去分詞，在此不表示“蜿蜒”，而表示“卷在……上，纏繞”，常常與

round

/around

搭配使用。他發(fā)現(xiàn)了纏繞在16000伏高壓線上的一條死蛇。

In

this

way,

he

was

able

to

solve

the

mystery.

就這樣，他解開(kāi)了起火之謎。

inthisway就這樣；通過(guò)這種方式was

able

to

solve

the

mystery

=

could

solve

the

mysterySolvethemystery解開(kāi)謎團(tuán)The

explanation

was

simple

but

very

unusual.

解釋簡(jiǎn)單，卻異乎尋常。語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)這是一個(gè)省略句，補(bǔ)充完整為：The

explanation

was

simple

but

was

very

unusual.Explanationn解釋ExplainvA

bird

had

snatched

up

the

snake

from

the

ground

and

then

dropped

it

on

to

thewires

一只鳥(niǎo)把蛇從地上抓起來(lái)，然后把它扔到了電線上?！?/p>

drop

v.丟在，落下；投在drop

n.水珠；[復(fù)]眼藥水，滴劑

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