新概念英语第三册课文重点Lesson49~51

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　　新概念英语第三册课文重点精讲解析Lesson49

　　背熟：If she were alive today she would not be able to air her views on her favourite topic of

　　conversation: domestic servants.

　　air one’s views on sth. / sb. 对......发表意见

　　背熟：lived in that leisurely age when

　　背熟：She was sentimentally attached to this house, for even though it was far too big for her

　　needs, she persisted in living there long after her husband's death.

　　attach to

　　背熟：she persisted in living there long after her husband's death.

　　persist in doing sth.

　　long after

　　short after

　　long before

　　short before

　　even my uncle's huge collection of books was kept miraculously free from dust.

　　背熟：She always referred to them as 'the shifting population', for they came and went with such

　　frequency that I never even got a chance to learn their names.

　　refer to / regard sb. as

　　背熟：she was extremely difficult to please.

　　背熟：While she always criticized the fickleness of human nature, she carried on an unrelenting

　　search for the ideal servant to the end of her days, even after she had been sadly disillusioned by

　　Bessie.

　　carry on

　　During that time

　　put sb. in charge of 安排某人负责

　　in addition to

　　act the role: play the role

　　be absent from: be away from

　　not only 位于句首，引导完整的语句，部分倒装

　　below, above常用的修饰词是well

　　bump into: knock oneself into / onto

　　背熟： reluctantly came to the conclusion that...

　　come to the conclusion

　　draw a conclusion

　　arrive at conclusion

　　reach conclusion

　　jump to conclusion

　　have a difficult time doing sth. : have trouble / difficulty in doing sth

　　背熟：They had mysteriously found their way there from the wine cellar!

　　新概念英语第三册课文重点精讲解析Lesson50

　　背熟：The New Year is a time for resolutions.

　　a time for

　　The spring Festival is a time for gathering.

　　Mentally: at heart

　　We become illogical when we decide what can be eaten and what can not be eaten.

　　背熟：The same old favorites recur year in year out with monotonous regularity.

　　favourite: resolution

　　recur: happen / take place

　　year in year out: one year after another / year by year

　　day by day / one day after another / day in day out

　　resolve to : 下定决心

　　背熟：Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment.

　　It is hard for us to attain some certain accomplishment

　　inveterate: deep rooted

　　背熟：If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced the

　　frustration that results from failure.

　　Because we have too often experience the frustration, it means nothing to me.

　　result from : 由 ...... 产生的

　　result in: lead to / cause

　　Failure will result in frustration. 失败会导致挫败心理。

　　背熟：Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and

　　we never have time to carry them out.

　　carry out: carry off

　　fail in our efforts / attempt

　　Eg: We accumulate clutter in an attempt to avoid waste.

　　背熟：We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look

　　even more foolish when we slip back into our bad old ways.

　　Eg: If you often make some common mistakes, you will get the frustration.

　　slip back into: return to the normal way

　　背熟：Aware of these pitfalls, this year I attempted to keep my resolutions to myself.

　　keep my resolutions to myself: keep my resolutions secret

　　Eg: We arrived at our destination exhausted.

　　Exhausted, we arrived at our destination.

　　Aware of the importance, I attempt to carry it out. 由于意识到了此事的重要性，我竭尽全力来把它实现。

　　limit oneself to

　　ambitions: New Year resolutions

　　limit: 限定到点

　　restrict: 限定到范围

　　A good beginning is half success.

　　背熟：but on the second, I applied myself assiduously to the task.

　　apply oneself to / apply one’s time to / apply one’s mind / energy to

　　be devoted / dedicated to

　　In 2002, I shall apply myself to learning English.

　　propose to do / I decided to do

　　The self-discipline required to study English hard is considerable as well.

　　nevertheless: however

　　背熟：I sat down at the breakfast table in an exhausted condition.

　　in an exhausted condition: exhausted

　　It...that... 句型

　　It was exhausted condition that betrayed my secret.

　　troop in: went / came into the room in group

　　unsettle: upset

　　背熟：That was really unsettling, but I fended off the taunts and jibes of the family good-

　　humouredly and soon everybody got used to the idea.

　　fend off: defeat

　　wane: diminish step by step

　　argue: got a good excuse

　　keep one’s mind fresh for doing sth.

　　背熟：Resisting the hypnotizing effect of television, I sat in my room for a few evenings with my

　　eyes glued to a book.

　　the temptation to do

　　slip back into our bad old ways / I was back to where I had started from / got back to my old bad

　　habit

　　dozing off: half sleep

　　I soon got back to my old bad habit of nodding.

　　a book entitled: a book which is entitled

　　We must be true in word and resolute in deed.

　　新概念英语第三册课文重点精讲解析Lesson51

　　1. Predicting the future is notoriously difficult.

　　notoriously adv. (尤指因坏事)众所周知地，如：

　　This organization is notoriously inefficient.

　　Doctors notoriously neglect their own health and do not seek help when they should.

　　2. Mainframe computers were very large indeed, often occupying whole air-conditioned rooms,

　　employing full-time technicians and run on specially-written software.

　　employ v. 雇用，使用(to pay sb. to work，use)，本文中的意思是"使用"，如：

　　How many people does your company employ?(雇用)

　　They have employed different approaches to obtain these results.(使用，可以用taken代替)

　　3. Though these large machines still exist, many of their functions have been taken over by small

　　powerful personal computers, commonly known as PCs.

　　be taken over: be replaced by。关于take over的用法，我们再看两个例子：

　　他的兄弟接替了他成为总裁。(练习(3)，汉译英)

　　I've asked my assistant to take over preparing for the conference. 我叫我的助手接手准备会议。(take

　　over doing sth.. )

　　4. In 1975, a primitive machine called the Altair, was launched in the USA.

　　launch这里指推出一种新产品(a new product was developed)，如：

　　公司上周推出一种新牌子啤酒。(练习(4)，汉译英)

　　5. It can properly be described as the first 'home computer' and it pointed the way to the future.

　　properly这里表示appropriately，适当地;properly还可表示satisfactorily，令人满意地。如：

　　The car is not working properly.

　　point the way to: show the way/direction to。如：

　　A line of restaurants pointed the way to the theatre.

　　Recent medical discoveries are already pointing the way to more efficient treatment.

　　6. In the early 1980s, the computer giant, IBM produced the world's first Personal Computer.

　　giant n. 巨人，伟人。如：

　　如果我看得更远只是因为我站在巨人的肩膀上。(牛顿名言)(练习(5)，汉译英)

　　The takeover battle is between two of American's industrial giants. (industrial giants，工业巨人)

　　7. This ran on an 'operating system' called DOS, produced by a then small company named Microsoft.

　　by a then small company: by a small company at that time, but the company was no longer small. 再看

　　一个例子：

　　I wanted to live in the city, but my then husband preferred the country. (He is no longer my husband

　　now. )

　　8. The IBM Personal Computer was widely copied.

　　copy这里的意思是模仿( imitate )，如：

　　They have copied the basic design from the Japanese model and made a few adjustments of their own.

　　9. From those humble beginnings, we have seen the development of the user-friendly home computers

　　and multimedia machines which are in common use today.

　　humble这里表示simple，简单的，简陋的。我们再来看humble其它的一些意思：

　　Even when she became rich and famous, she never forgot her humble background. (这里表示low in rank,

　　卑微的出身)

　　Whenever you saw him, he was always wearing a humble smile. (这里表示unpretentious，谦逊的)

　　user-friendly: easy to be use，通常用来描述计算机以及与计算机相关的事物，如：

　　a user-friendly printer / software

　　The computer manual is supposed to be user-friendly, but I cannot understand a word of it. 电脑的使

　　用说明书应当是容易使用的，但我一个字也看不懂。

　　friendly也经常用于其它后缀，如：customer-friendly, environment-friendly

　　10. ......was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.

　　predict: foretell, 预测。predict还可用于predict to do sth, predict + that从句以及其它从句。如：

　　Storms are predicted to reach the north of the country this evening.

　　Who could have predicted that within ten years he would be in charge of the whole company?

　　We cannot predict when the next earthquake will happen.

　　11. Bagrit dismissed the idea that computers would learn to 'think' for themselves and would 'rule

　　the world'.

　　dismissed the idea that: refused to believe in that。我们再来看dismiss其它的一些用法：

　　The teacher dismissed the class early because she had to attend a meeting. (dismissed the class，下

　　课)

　　He laughed and dismissed my suggestion as naive. (dismissed my suggestion: refused to consider my

　　suggestion)

　　12. ... and suggesting alternative routes, when they would be used in hospitals to help doctors to

　　diagnose illnesses, when they would relieve office workers and accountants of dull, repetitive clerical

　　work.

　　alternative: some other thing to replace 替代性的。如：

　　They are looking for an alternative venue for the concert. 他们在为音乐会寻找另外的场所。

　　alternative energy, alternative medicine

　　relieve ... of ... 把...从...解除出来，如：

　　The baby-sitter relieved her of many of the chores. 保姆给她解决了很多家务的问题。

　　13. ... that enables us to communicate instantly with anyone in any part of the world...

　　instantly: immediately, 当即。如：

　　The driver was killed instantly. I recognized him instantly.

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