新概念英语第2册Lesson46-48课文详注
下载后可任意编辑 新概念英语第2册Lesson46~48课文详注 新概念英语第2册Lesson46课文详注 1.…workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing.……工人们开始卸下装有服装的一批木箱。 (1)unload的含义为“卸(货)”,它的反义词为load(装货)。与形容词 uncomfortable, unsmiling等相似,有些动词加前缀un可以表示做相反的动作。 (2)a number of为固定词组,表示“若干”、“许多”: You’ve made a number of mistakes in typing this letter. 你打这封信时出了不少错误。 (3)clothing是服装的总称,为不可数名词,其含义比clothes更为广泛。clothes一般指衣服,clothing则可以包括鞋、帽等。 2.No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. 其中有只箱子特别重,可谁也弄不清是怎么回事。 (1)短语动词 account for的含义为“说明理由”、“作出说明(或解释)”: The bad weather in England accounts for Harrison’s decision to leave the country. 英国糟糕的气候是哈里森决定离开这个国家的原因。 How do you account for the battered car? 你如何解释这撞坏的车? (2)that后面的从句为fact的同位语从句,说明fact的具体内容: He couldn’t explain the fact that Mary’s wallet was found in his room. 他无法解释玛丽的钱包是在他房间里找到的这一事实。 3.It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box. 突然一个工人想到打开箱子看看。 (1)表示某人想起某事时,要用 sth. occurred to sb. 这个结构,主语为事,而不是人。 (2)it在句中为先行主语,代替不定式 to open up the box。 (3)open up的含义之一是“打开”: open up boxes/gifts 打开箱子/礼物 When he received the gifts, he opened them up at once. 他收到礼物后立即就打开了。 4.He was astonished at what he found. 看到的情景使他吃惊。 表示某事使/让某人吃惊通常用sb. is/ are/ was/ were…astonished at sth.: Sam appears astonished at the news/ the sound. 这消息/声音似乎使萨姆吃了一惊。 5.on top of, 在……上面。 She put the bread on top of a pile of other goods. 她把面包放在一堆其他货物上面。 6.…he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours. ……他在那木箱里闷了十八个多小时。 confine表示“把……限制起来”,通常与介词to连用: Last weekend, Tom’s mother confined him to his room. 上个周末,汤姆的妈妈把汤姆关在了房间里。 7.The man was ordered to pay £3,500 for the cost of the trip. 此人被责令交付旅费3,500英镑。 pay for表示“为……支付货款”、“为……付出代价”: She paid £ 50 for that dress. 她买那件衣服花了50英镑。 新概念英语第2册Lesson47课文详注 1.A public house which was recently bought by Mr. Ian Thompson is up for sale. 伊恩·汤普森先生最近才买的一个小酒店现在又要卖出去。 (1)在英国英语中,public house指酒馆、酒店,口语中往往缩略为pub: I had lunch at a village pub. 我在一家乡村小酒店吃了午饭。 (2)up for sale表示“供新概念”,up为形容词,含义为“已提出的”、“供……的”。 2.He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise coming from the bar. 他告诉我有天夜里他怎么也睡不着,因为他听到酒吧里传来一阵奇怪的响声。 (1)从that一直到句尾都是told的直接宾语,其中because引导的原因状语从句说明为什么睡不着的原因。 (2)coming为现在分词,它引导的短语修饰noise,为宾语补足语。它也可以变为从句结构:a strange noise that came from the bar。在一些表示感觉的动词如see,hear,feel,watch,notice 等之后,往往用宾语+宾语补足语这个结构,其宾语补足语既可以是不定式(通常不加to),也可以是现在分词,两者在意义上区别不大,现在分词表示动作正在 发生,不定式则表示动作发生了: I heard someone knocking at the door. 我听到有人正敲门。 I heard you sing this song yesterday. 昨天我听到你唱这支歌。 (3)bar为酒吧或酒店中卖酒的柜台。 3.…they were on in the morning.……早晨灯都亮着。 on为形容词,表示“开着的”、“接通的”,其反义词为off: When he arrived home, he found that all the lights were on/ off. 他到家时发现所有的灯都亮着/关着。 Is the T