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上期答案1.D 2.D 3.B 4.D
Chapter 3 Four Skinny Trees
Their strength is secret. They send ①ferocious roots beneath the ground. They ②grow up and they ③grow down and grab the earth between their hairy toes and bite the sky with violent teeth and never quit their anger. This is how they keep. Let one forget his reason for being, they'd all droop like tulips in a glass, each with their arms around the other. Keep, keep, keep, trees say when I sleep.
他们的力量是个秘密。他们在地下展开凶猛的根系。他们向上生长也向下生长,用它们须发样的脚趾攥紧泥土,用它们猛烈的牙齿噬咬天空,怒气从不懈怠。这就是它们坚持的方式。假如有一棵忘记了它存在的理由,他们就全都会像玻璃瓶里的郁金香一样耷拉下来,手挽着手。在我睡着的时候说:坚持,坚持,坚持。
When I am too sad and too ④skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees. When there is nothing left to look at on this street. Four who grew ⑤despite concrete. Four who reach and do not forget to reach. Four whose only reason is to be and be.
当我太悲伤太瘦弱无法坚持再坚持的时候,当我如此渺小却要对抗这么多砖块的时候,我就会看着树儿。当街上没有别的东西可看的时候。不畏水泥仍在生长的四棵树。从不忘记伸展的四棵树。活着是唯一的理由的四棵树。
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第一页.精彩选段
第二页.词汇采集
第三页.活学活用
1.ferocious adj. 残忍的;惊人的
A ferocious face and a jet black muzzle.
一张狰狞的脸和他手中乌黑的枪口。
2.grow up 成长,逐渐形成
What do you want to be when you grow up?
等你长大以后,你想要做什么工作呢?
3.grow down 往下生长;减少,减退
In rainy September, when leaves grow down to the dark.
多雨的九月,树叶越长越瘦,日渐灰暗。
4.skinny adj. 皮的;皮包骨的
She was skinny as a post.
现在她和电线杆一样瘦。
5.despite prep. 尽管,不管
Despite In spite of this, I prefer the second.
但尽管如此,我还是更喜欢第二个。
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When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping,...
当我太悲伤太瘦弱无法坚持再坚持的时候......
【解析】今天,小编带大家看一下“too...to...”结构的用法。O(∩_∩)O~
在英语中,“too...to...”结构为固定句型,“too”后加形容词(adj.)或副词(adv.)原形,在这里“too”相当于“more than enough”表过分之意,“to”后加动词(v.)原形,一起构成动词不定短语作结果状语。该短语常用来表示否定意义,译作“太......而不能......” ,“太......以致于不能......”。此时句中的谓语不可用否定式,因不定式已表达了否定意义。
例句: He is too young to join the army.
他太小了,不能参军。
He reached the station too late to catch the train.
他到车站太晚了,没有赶上那趟火车。
The woman is too old to carry thd box.
那个女人年纪太大了,搬不动箱子。
另外,该短语也可用来表示肯定的意义:
当个别形容词(adj.),如pleased、glad、anxious、eager、easy、ready等跟在“too”后时或当“too...to...”前加上not,but,all,only,nerver等词时,则后面的不定式短语往往有肯定意义,即整个短语不表示否定意义,在这里“too”表示“十分、极其”意思。
例句: She is too anxious to know the answer.
她十分想知道答案。
He is too eager to join the Youth League.
他非常渴望加入少先队。
You are nerver too old to learn.
活到老,学到老。
He is only too pleased to help her.
他只是太高兴了,才去帮她。
【即学即用】下面小编就给出几句话,童鞋们试着用“too...to...”结构翻译一下吧!↖(^ω^)↗
他太小了,还不知道什么是伤心。
亡羊补牢,为时未晚。
他非常想去法国。