新概念英语第四册知识点精讲(一)

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新概念英语第四册知识点Lesson 1 Finding fossil man (一)

  

1 We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learned to write.

  【译文】我们能读到五千年前近东发生之事,那里的人最先学会了书写。

  【单词和短语】

  read:此处为不及物动词,意为“读到,获悉”(to find out information from books,newspapers etc.),后接of或about,

  例如:

  He reads about the war. 他读到关于战争的消息。

  Did you read of their accident in the newspapers?

  你在报上看到他们遭遇意外事故的消息了么?

  5,000 years:五千年。另学习millennium,意为“一千年”,复数为millennia。5,000 years即为5 millennia。

  the Near East:近东,指地中海东部沿岸地区,包括亚洲西南部和非洲东北部,有时还包括巴尔干半岛。

 2. But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.

  【译文】但时至今日世上某些地方的人还不会书写。

  【单词和短语】

  even now:此处意为“甚至到现在”,

  例如:

  Even now he won’t believe me. 他甚至到现在还不相信我。

  even now另有两解,一为“就在此刻”,例如:

  Perhaps even now the time has arrived.也许正是此刻时机来到了。

  另一为“尽管这样,虽然情况如此”(in spite of what has happened),

  例如:

  I have explained everything,but even now she doesn’t understand.

  我什么都解释了,但是尽管如此她还是不明白。

  3. The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas-legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another.

  【译文】他们能够保存历史的唯一方法是将历史当传说讲述,由讲述人一代接一代地口授传奇故事。

  【讲解】

  to recount it as…another是动词不定式短语,作表语,说明主语way的内容,it指history。句中破折号引出同位语。handed down … another是过去分词短语,作legends的定语。another后省略了generation of story-tellers。

  【单词和短语】

  preserve:保存,保留(to make sth. continue without changing)。

  例如:

  preserve an old house as a museum 保存一幢老房子用作陈列馆

  preserve sb.’s right to do sth. 保留某人对某事物的权利

  Few of his early poems are preserved. 他早期的诗没有几首留存下来。

  recount:详细叙述,描述,说明(to tell someone a story or describe a series of events),

  例如:

  recount a story with real wit 妙趣横生地讲故事

  The explorer recounted his adventures in a number of books.

  探险家在好几本书中描述自己的冒险经历。

  saga:英雄传奇(a long story about events that happened over the years)

  hand down:把……传下去(to give or leave sth. to people who will live after you),

  例如:

  This custom is handed down from the past. 这个习惯是过去传下来的。

  The gold watch has been handed down in his family. 那块金表是他家祖传的。

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