新概念英语第三册逐句精讲语言点 第34课 幸运的发现 (1)

　　A happy discovery 幸运的发现

　　Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on agreat many people. The more expensive kind ofantique shop where rare objects are beautifullydisplayed in glass cases to keep them free fromdust is usually a forbidding place. But no onehas to muster up courage to enter a lesspretentious antique shop.

　　1.Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.

　　古玩店对许多人来说有一种特殊的魅力。

　　语言点:句子结构分析:这句话的主体结构非常简单，exert…on…的本意是“对…施加…”，在本句中引申为“对某人具有吸引力”。

　　2.The more expensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifullydisplayed in glass cases to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place.

　　高档一点的古玩店为了防尘，把文物漂亮地陈列在玻璃柜子里，那里往往令人望而却步。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:where引导定语从句，修饰antique shop,即“…的古董店”。To keep them freefrom dust是动词不定式短语，作目的状语，即“放在玻璃柜子里的目的是防尘”。

　　语言点2:keep sth.free from…的意思是“使某物避免…”

　　3.But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.

　　而对不太装腔作势的古玩店，无论是谁都不用壮着胆子才敢往里进。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:to enter a less pretentious antique shop作目的状语，意思是“为了进不太装腔作势的古玩店”。

　　语言点2:muster up courage to do sth.的意思是“鼓起勇气做某事”。