新概念英语第四册23-03

many a 许多

many a time 许多次

many an occasion 许多场合

many a thing 许多事情 后面的动词用单数形式

highway 高速路

boast 自吹自擂

high road ：means high moutian road 山路

over hill and dale 翻山越岭

confirm 证实

介词 of 后的句子是介词宾语

adventure 在这儿有两层意思：1.go to mountains 2.mental adventure

hearth:fireplace

hearth-rug 用来装饰的地毯

whatever 是主语 (后边可以用 of 结构)

power:ability

to instruct: to teach

fellow worker/actor 同事/演员搭挡

a fellow guest（共同赴宴的人） may have: 做谓语

So thick(丰富的) and fast（迅捷的）

特殊格式：无谓语

名词或名词短语+问题=感叹

eg.Women,who can live with them? (表感叹)

Women,who can live without them?

The man,who I respect and love so much,where is he now?

Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be by those who practise it. My objection to it is that it stops the brain. Many a man has professed to me that his brain never works so well as when he is swinging along the high road or over hill and dale.

This boast is not confirmed by my memory of anybody who on a Sunday morning has forced me to partake of his adventure. Experience teaches me that whatever a fellow-guest may have of power to instruct or to amuse when he is sitting in a chair, or standing on a hearth-rug, quickly leaves him when he takes one out for a walk. The ideas that come so thick and fast to him in any room, where are they now ? where that encyclopaedic knowledge which he bore so lightly ? where the kindling fancy that played like summer lightning over any topic that was started ?...