重点词汇词组
1.take one's seats 坐下;就坐
例:Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.
各位来宾,请就座
。【相关俚语】
①bums on seats 观众人数;上座率
例:Lowering ticket prices should increase the number of bums on seats.
降低票价应该会提高上座率
。②seat of learning 学府,学术中心
例:The Sorbonne is a world-famous seat of learning.
索邦大学是世界闻名的学术中心
。2.look around 四处看看;游览
例:When we went to Boston, we only had a couple of hours to look around.
我们到达波士顿的时候,只有几个小时的时间去四处看看
。【常见短语】
①look forward to sth. 盼望,期盼
例:I'm really looking forward to my holiday.
我热切盼望着假期的到来
。②look into sth. 调查,研究
例:We're looking into the possibility of merging the two departments.
我们正在研究这两个部门合并的可能性
。【相关俚语】
①be not much to look at 没有吸引力,没什么可看的
例:The house isn't much to look at but it's spacious.
那所房子没什么吸引人的地方,只是很宽敞
。②look straight/right through sb. 对(某人)视而不见
例:I said hello but she looked straight through me.
我跟她打了个招呼,而她却对我视而不见
。3.be struck with… 被……打动;迷恋……
例:I was struck with her youth and enthusiasm.
她年轻热情,把我迷住了
。【常见短语】
①strike on/upon sth. 发现;想起
例:She struck on the idea for her novel while she was travelling in Russia.
她在俄罗斯旅行途中萌生了该小说的创作灵感
。②strike out 独立开创新事业;自立谋生
例:After working for her father for ten years, she felt it was time to strike out on her own.
她在为父亲工作了10年之后,感觉到是该自己独立开创一番事业的时候了
。【相关俚语】
①strike fear/terror into sb. 使(某人)极度恐惧
例:The brutal military regime has struck terror into the whole population.
残暴的军事政权使全体民众惊恐万分
。②strike a balance 求得平衡
例:It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.
问题在于要在产品质量和生产率之间求得适当的平衡
。长难句解析
But when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds1, she2 felt3 all the force of the compliment4, and would hardly have resented5 a comparison6 with the housekeeper's room.
解:1时间状语从句+2主语+3谓语+4宾语+5谓语+6宾语
析:宾语从句:what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor
这两个宾语从句分别由连接代词what和who引导,其他常见的连接代词有:whom, which, whose等
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