选修 6 * 1. Then she leapt backwards, back arched and fur on end, tail held out stiffly. 然后它向后一跃,脊背拱起,毛发竖立,尾巴僵直地挺立着。 2. Then he stood still, close to the trunk of the nearest tree, as a truck came round the circle and swept its lights over him. 然后他静静地站着,紧靠离他最近的一棵树干,这时一辆卡车转弯过来,灯光照到他的身上。 重点句型 * 3. It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two meters from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a metre across. 看上去就像有人在距离路边大约两米的地方将空间切开了一块,它大体呈方形,不到一米宽。 4. If you were level with the patch so that it was edgeon, it was nearly invisible, and it was completely invisible from behind. 如果你与那块空间处在同等高度,从侧面看你几乎看不到它,从后面则完全看不见它。 重点句型 * 5. What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder, but he didn’t hesitate… 他看到的一切使他头晕目眩,心跳加速,但他却丝毫没有迟疑…… 6. She had the extra burden of looking after her baby daughter while she worked, and because she was too poor to own a typewriter, she wrote by hand. 她在工作的同时还要肩负另外的责任,那就是照顾小女儿。由于贫穷,买不起打字机,她只好手写书稿。 重点句型 *
1. Of course, every cat behaved like that,
but all the same Will felt such a longing to turn
for home that tears scalded his eyes.
当然,所有猫都是那样的。尽管如此,威尔 还是渴望回家,以至于热泪盈眶。
本句中含有such…that…句型, 表示“如此……以至于……”;such后修饰名词,如果是单数可数名词,其顺序为“such+ a(an)+形容词 +名词+that”。 句型探究 * so…that…, such…that… ①so…that…“如此……以至于”,表结果。该结构常见于:so+形容词/副词+that; so+形容词+a(an)+单数名词+that ②such…that…“如此……以至于”,表结果。该结构常见于：such+ a(an)+形容词+名词+that；such+形容词+复数名词/不可数名词+that。 词语辨析 *
It’s so hot that you can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
=It’s such hot weather that you can fry an
egg on the sidewalk.
天如此热，你能在人行道上煎鸡蛋了。 词语辨析 *
2. It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two metres from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a metre across.
看上去就像有人在距离路边大约两米的地方将空间切开了一块，它大体呈方形,不到一米宽。 句型探究 *
(1)句中as if跟在looked之后,引导表语从句,意为“看起来像,看起来似乎”。
She looks as if she were ten years younger.
她看起来比实际年龄年轻10岁。
as if引导的表语从句使用了虚拟语气,表明是虚拟的、假设的,而非真实情况。 句型探究 *
as if从句若用陈述语气,是为了表示说话人仅仅把从句中所说的内容当作真实的情况看待,使人觉得它是事实。
It seems as if it is going to rain.
看起来天要下雨了。
知 识 拓 展 * (2) less than“少于”,后面常跟数词。 not less than= not fewer than 至少。 no less than= as many as多达,不少于;表示“多” 句型探究 *
3. What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder, but he didn’t hesitate…
他看到的一切使他头晕目眩,心跳加速,但他却丝毫没有迟疑……
(1) what he saw在此处是主语从句,在句子当中充当主语，从句中缺宾语，由 what 充当。译为“他所看到的”。 句型探究 *
(2) make his head swim and his heart thump harder意思为“使他头晕目眩,心跳加快”。make在此处是使役动词,用在“make+宾语+do”结构中,宾语跟动词do存在逻辑上的主谓关系。 句型探究 * make作使役动词使用时,有以下几种结构： make+宾语+adj./ do / done / n. They decided to make Tangshan a large base. 他们决定把唐山作为一个大基地。 When you speak English, be sure to make yourself understood. 当你说英语时，要确定自己能被理解。 知 识 拓 展 *