新概念英语3逐句精讲: 第5课确切数字

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　　Lesson5 The facts确切数字

　　Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
　　The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the 、journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

　　新概念英语3逐句精讲：

　　1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.
报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:of newspapers and magazines为介词短语，作editors的定语。To provide their readers with unimportant facts and statisics为不定式短语，作状语。

　　语言点2:重要写作短语总结:描述做某事的状态

　　Go to extermes to do sth. 做某事走极端

　　Carry sth. To extremes 做某事很过分

　　Take a lot of risks doing sth. 冒险做某事
2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.

　　去年一位记者受一家有名的杂志委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。

　　语言点1:well-known为复合形容词，修饰magazine。

　　语言点2:instruct sb. to do sth.表示“指示/吩咐某人做某事”，句中用的是这一短语的被动语态形式。

　　3. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it.

　　稿子寄来后，编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:when引导时间状语从句，说明编辑接到文稿后的反应。And并列连接读稿和拒绝发表两件事情。It指代article。

　　语言点2:间接否定的说法总结:

　　Refuse to do sth.=do not want to do sth,
Fail to do sth,=do not do sth.
Object to doing sth.=do not agree to do sth.

　　4. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'.
文章的开头是这样的:“几百级台阶通向总统府的高墙。”

　　语言点1:句子结构分析:这是一个直接引语的句式，用数字作主语非常大气的描述了总统府的庞大规模。Which引导定语从句，修饰wall,强调是怎样的高墙。

　　语言点2:hundreds of 表示“成百上千的”。

　　下面是与数字有关的表达总结:

　　Tens of 几十
Dozens of 几十
Thousands of 成千上万的
Tens of thousands of 数十万的
Millions of 数百万的
Tens of millions of数千万的
Hundreds of millions of 数亿的
Billions of 数十亿的

　　例句支持:

　　Hundreds of millions of people are living in harmful environment in the world. 全世界有数亿人仍然生活在有害的环境当中。

　　5. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

　　编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

　　语言点1:句子结构分析: instructing him find out… 为现在分词短语，作目的状语。And并列连接台阶数量和围墙高度。

　　语言点2:at once表示“立刻，立即”。

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