新概念英语词汇随身听手册二51-53

发布时间:2012-12-26  编辑:查字典英语网小编

Lesson 51 Reward for virtue

New words and expressions:

1. reward

Reward for virtue

He deserves a material reward.

The school offers a reward to virtual students.

2. virtue

She is a person of great virtue.

Chinese people have many virtues.

3. diet

My friend, Huge, has always been fat, but things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet.

He began his diet a week ago.

She is on a strict diet.

Mrs. White has put on some weight although she went on a diet.

4. forbid

First of all, he wrote out a long list of all the foods which were forbidden.

He forbids his sons tobacco and wine.

The doctor forbade my father to drink excessively.

5. hurriedly

He let me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk.

He greeted me and then hurriedly went away.

After work, he went home hurriedly.

6. embarrass

It was obvious that he was very embarrassed.

He always feels embarrassed at parties.

Your joke embarrassed me.

7. guiltily

When I asked him what he was doing, he smiled guiltily and then put the parcel on the desk.

He buried his face in his hands guiltily.

“It’s my fault,” he said guiltily.

8. strict

He explained that his diet was so strict that he had to reward himself occasionally.

The headmaster was very strict with his pupils.

Peter is a strict person.

9. reward

How can I reward your kindness?

He rewarded the newspaper boy forty dollars.

10. occasionally

The couple went to the cinema occasionally.

Occasionally, I met the lonely old man in the park.

Lesson 52 A pretty carpet

New words and expressions:

1. temporarily

To make matters worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor.

He was out of work temporarily.

She lived with her parents temporarily.

2. inch

At the moment, they cover every inch of floor space and I actually have to walk on them to get in or out of the room.

He missed the target by an inch.

Twelve inches equal a foot.

3. space

It’s hard to find the parking space by the roadside.

The office building covers one thousand nine hundred square meters of floor space.

4. actually

Actually he is responsible for the project.

Actually he was fired by the boss.

Lesson 53 Hot snake

1. hot

Hot snake

Water is boiling hot.

I love a hot bath in cold weather.

2. fireman

At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California.

A fireman was missing in the fire.

The firemen fought bravely with the fire.

3. cause

Forest fires are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away.

What caused the accident?

The cause of the plane crash has not been identified.

4. examine

Yesterday the firemen examined the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass.

The doctor examined the patient carefully.

He examined the engine and found everything was okay.

5. accidentally

This morning, however, a fireman accidentally discovered the cause.

He learned the truth accidentally.

The patient accidentally learned that he had got cancer.

6. remains

He noticed the remains of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line.

The divers found the remains of the ancient ship.

The new city was built on the remains of the buildings.

7. wire

The snake then wound itself round the wires.

This is the insulated wire.

The wire broke in the storm.

8. volt

Volt was named after its discoverer.

A 16,000-volt power line is very dangerous.

9. power line

The power line of this city is very complex.

The power line of the city is well maintained.

10. solve

In this way, he was able to solve the mystery.

With his experience, he solved the problem quickly.

At the moment, no one solved the puzzle.

11. mystery

It is a mystery to me why he lives in solitude.

Nature has a lot of mysteries.

12. snatch

A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it onto the wires.

A hawk snatched up a rabbit from the grass.

He snatched up the vase before it dropped.

13. spark

When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.

Striking two stones can produce sparks.

Some forest fires are caused by sparks.

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