英语听力汇总   |   英语六级攻克阅读关键句254. Even in Western Europe, with fuel prices

https://online2.tingclass.net/lesson/shi0529/

更新日期:2018-11-06浏览次数:404次所属教程:六级阅读

-字号+

听力原文

254. Even in Western Europe, with fuel prices averaging more than $1 a liter (about $4 a gallon) and with easily accessible mass transit and dense populations, cars still account for 80 percent of all passenger travel.

译文 在西欧,燃料的平均价格每升已超过1美元,即每加仑已超过4美元,此外,这里公共交通条件便利、人口密集,但即便如此,使用私家车的人数仍为总出行人数的80%。

点睛 本句的主干是...cars account for 80 percent of all passenger travel。in Western Europe为地点状语;with...and dense populations在句中作伴随状语;其中,averaging more than $1 a liter修饰fuel prices。

fuel意为“燃料”。liter和gallon分别意为“升”和“加仑”,它们都是容积单位。

accessible意为“可接近的;可进入的”。如:

Medicine should not be kept where it is accessible to children. 药品不应放在儿童能够到的地方。

transit意为“运输”。如:

The goods were lost in transit. 这些货物在运输途中丢失了。

考点归纳 本句中的account for为固定短语,意为“(在数量方面)占”。此外,与account有关的短语还有:

on account of 意为“因为,由于”。如:

On account of his extravagance he was plunged into heavy debt. 由于挥霍浪费,他负债累累。

take...into account意为“考虑”。如:

She did not take into account how much liberty she was securing. 她并没有考虑自己已获得了多少自由。

by all accounts意为“大家一致认为,根据各方面所说”。如:

I've never been to that country but it is, by all accounts, a lovely place. 我从来没有去过那个国家,不过大家都说那地方不错。

英语六级阅读