选修 8 *
1. Wherever he went, he carried a notebook around with him, in which he wrote down his ideas.
不管走到哪里他都随身携带一个笔记本，以便随时记录下自己的想法。 重点句型 *
2. So you can walk along a street for half an hour or so and end up five minutes from where you started.
那么你有可能沿街走了半小时左右，结果离你出发的地点实际仅有五分钟的路程。 重点句型 *
3. Unlike other places in Europe, where house owners were taxed on the size of their windows, here the taxes depended on the width of the house…
在欧洲其他地方,房屋主人要根据窗户的尺寸纳税;此处却不同,这里的税金是根据房屋的宽度而定…… 重点句型 *
4. But as the ideas of the Renaissance developed, so did the demand for the Greek
and Latin classics, which had been largely ignored for up to 2,000 years.
但随着文艺复兴观念的发展,人们对 希腊和拉丁经典作品的需求也增加了,而 这些经典已经被忽视达2000年了。 重点句型 *
5. Without inexpensive printing to make books available to a large section of society, the son of John Shakespeare, a government official in rural England in the mid–1500s, may never have been inspired to take up writing as a profession.
假如没有低廉的印刷技术使得广大社会 阶层有书可读,16世纪中期英格兰乡村的政府官员——约翰·莎士比亚的儿子也许根本不可能受到鼓舞而将写作作为职业。 重点句型 *
Without inexpensive printing to make books available to a large section of society, the son of John Shakespeare, a government official in rural England in the mid–1500s, may never have been inspired to take up writing as a profession.
假设没有低廉的印刷技术使得广大社会阶 层有书可读,16世纪中期英格兰乡村的政府官员——约翰·莎士比亚的儿子也许根本不可能 受到鼓舞而将写作作为职业。 句型探究 * ①inspire sb. to do sth.
鼓励/激励某人做某事 ②inspire sth. in / with sb.
激起/促成某人…… 句型探究 *
inspired
adj.
有灵感的,(人、作品)得到灵感的,非常好的
inspiring
adj.
激励的,鼓励的
inspiration
n.
灵感,启示 知 识 拓 展 * His passion for romantic literature inspired him to begin writing. 他对浪漫主义文学的激情激励他开始写作。 He possesses the quality of inspiring confidence. 他有本事能让别人信任他。 知 识 拓 展 * (2)may never have been 是对过去情况的推测。对过去情况的推测用“情态动词＋动词的完成式”。 There was no light in his office. He must have gone home. 他办公室没亮灯，他一定是回家了。(must表示肯定的推测。) You should have finished your work before class. 你课前就该把作业做完的。(should have done表示“理应，本该……”) 知 识 拓 展 *