Lesson 16
关键句型一:表示到某地度假的句型(以本题为例)
1. I will spend this summer holiday / vacation in the countryside.
【英式英语中说holiday,美式英语中说vacation.】
2. Im going to the countryside during the summer vacation.
3. I will go to the countryside for vacation this summer.
关键句型二:表达不足的句型(以本题为例)
1. There are still some shortcomings to living in the urban area.
2. There are still some disadvantages to living in the city.
3. There are still some problems to living in the urban area.
4. Life in an urban center brings its own set of problems.
5. Life in the city is far from perfect.
6. Urban life has its downside. 【downside n. 不利方面】
7. Life for city-dwellers is not all peaches and cream.
【超级地道美语】【peach and cream: 受人喜欢的东西(俚)】
上一篇: 中考英语复习资料:名词性从句的翻译
Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”
Burn a hole in your pocket 有钱不花难受
World's longest tunnel and a strange kind of race 世界最长铁路隧道,扛羊毛袋比赛
It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响
Phelps makes history and marine species 菲尔普斯创造历史,海洋新物种
To turn something upside down 把……翻个底朝天
Glass-bottomed bridge, cancer risk for HRT and 120-year-old man 世界最长玻璃桥开放,荷尔蒙替代疗法增患癌风险,印度教120岁僧人
Cyborg beetle and the teenage brain 半机械甲虫,青少年脑部发育
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
The cost of protecting the environment, Juno space probe 保护环境付出的代价,“朱诺”木星探测器
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
One good turn deserves another 以德报德,礼尚往来
Art and football 海底发现文物,莱斯特城足球俱乐部曼谷庆功
White / blue-collar worker 白领,蓝领
Clean up your act 改邪归正
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
Pain in the neck 令人讨厌的事情或人
Drama queen 小题大做的人
California wildfires and cloned animals 加利福尼亚州野火,克隆动物衰老过程正常
Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史,400岁格陵兰鲨鱼
Crash course 速成课
To make a monkey out of me 捉弄我
Brexit and Hockney's art 英国脱欧公投后进展,大卫·霍克尼艺术展
Going forward 从今往后
Off the hook 脱身
Cheap and cheerful 物美价廉
The last/final straw 忍无可忍,使人最终崩溃的一击
Barefaced 厚颜无耻的
IOC on Russian doping and hot June 奥委会就涉俄兴奋剂事件报告进展,六月高温破纪录