注释:① assume vt. 承担;假定;采取;呈现 vi. 装腔作势;多管闲事
例句:
1. We cannot assume anything in this case.
在这种情形下我们无法作任何揣测。
2. I assume you've decided against buying a new car.
我想你已经决定不买新汽车了。
② come up with 提出;想出;赶上
例句:
1. The programmer come up with a solution to the system problem.
程序员想出了一个解决系统问题的办法。
2. I had to run to come up with him.
我得跑才能赶上他。
3. No one have come up with a convincing explanation of why dinosaur die out.
尚未有人能对恐龙的灭绝作出一个令人信服的解释。
③ filled with 充满;装满
例句:
1. My room is filled with the odour of roses.
我的房间里充满了玫瑰花的香味。
2. She was filled with the aspiration to succeed in life.
她渴望有所成就。
3. Children like books filled with illustrations.
孩子们喜欢插图丰富的书。
句子讲解:
1. Recently, geologists have come up with a possible answer, an answer that could also explain what happened to the once towering peaks of the Rockies.
【结构简析】 Daisy会先找主干,"geologists have come up with a possible answer"。后面是由"that"引导的名词性从句,用来解释说明"answer"是什么样的。
【参考译文】 最近,地质学家想出一个可能的答案,也许可以解释为什么曾经高耸的落基山脉会下降。
2. "This rock, we find all over the top of Pumpkin Buttes in Wyoming, is a granite, the closest granite we find to the series of the Bighorn Mountains nearly 100 miles to the West."
【结构简析】这句话中有一句插入的话,它是非限制性定语从句。补充说明发现这块岩石的地点。后面一句话是说他们同样能找到花岗岩的地方与现在这个地方的距离。这样好引出下面要讲的内容。
【参考译文】“但在南瓜巴茨山的山顶却都找到了花岗岩石。而同样发现了花岗岩石并且离这里最近的地方是,大角山脉以西约100公里处。”