新概念英语3: 第45课 媒体的力量

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  6.Newspapers exert such tremendous influence that they can not only bring about major changes to the lives of ordinary people but can even overthrow a government.

  新闻具有巨大的威力。它们不仅可以给寻常人家的生活带来重大的变化,甚至还能推翻一个政府。

  语言点:exert influence的意思是“对…产生影响”。

  7.The story of a poor family that acquired fame and fortune overnight, dramatically illustrates the power of the press.

  下面这户穷人一夜之间出名发财的故事戏剧性地说明了新闻报道威力。

  语言点:练习写作表示“出名,受欢迎”的句子:

  Wedding tours gain widespread popularity among young people in recent years.
最近几年,旅行结婚受到了年轻人的普遍欢迎。

  8.The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota.

  这户人家住在南达科他州一个人口为23,000 的小镇上,镇名为阿拜丁。

  9.As the parents had five children, life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.

  家里已有5个孩子,全家人常年在贫困中挣扎。

  语言点:struggle against的意思是“在贫困中挣扎”。

  10.They were expecting their sixth child and faced with even more pressing economic problems.

  第6个孩子即将问世,他们面临着更为严峻的经济问题。

  语言点:be faced with sth.的意思是“面临某事。”

  11.If they had only had one more child, the fact would have passed unnoticed.

  如果他们只添了1个孩子,这件事本来就不会引起任何人的注意。

  12.They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity.

  这家人会继续为克服经济上的拮据而奋斗,并默默无闻地活下去。

  13.But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which radically changed their lives.

  但是他们出人意料生了个五胞胎,4女1男。这事使他们的生活发生了根本的变化。

  语言点:与“多胞胎”相关的表达总结:

  Twins 双胞胎,triplets三胞胎,quadruplets 四胞胎

  14.The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.

  五胞胎降生第二天,一架飞机飞抵阿拜丁,随机带来60名记者与摄影师。

  15.The rise to fame was swift.

  这一家迅速出了名。

  16.Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country.

  电视摄像机和报纸把消息传送到全国。

  17.Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographs.
报纸、杂志出高价向他们购买文字、图片的独家报道权。

  18.Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but from baby food and soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products.

  不但素昧平生的人寄来了大量的礼物,而且婴儿食品、婴儿肥皂制造厂商为了替自己产品做广告也寄来了大量的礼物。

  19.The old farmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced by a new 500,000 home.

  这家人住的旧家舍将由一座价值50万美元的新住宅所取代。

  语言点:be replaced by的意思是“由…代替”。

  20.Reporters kept pressing for interviews so lawyers had to be employed to act as spokes-men for the family at press conferences.

  由于记者纷纷要求会见,他们不得不请了律师充当他们家的发言人举行记者招待会。

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