重点讲解:
1. make it
到达;成功;赶上;
eg. You're brave and courageous. You can make it.
你勇敢无畏,一定会获得成功 。
eg. He hadn't been able to make it to our dinner.
他没能出席我们的晚宴 。
2. be supposed to do sth.
应当,应该做某事;
eg. He was supposed to go back to Bergen on the last bus, but of course the accident prevented him.
他本来要乘最后一班汽车回卑尔根,但当然,这起事故使他没能回去 。
eg. Public spending is supposed to fall, not rise, in the next few years.
在接下来的几年里,政府开支应该会下降,而不是上升 。
3. the more...the more
常用结构,表示“越……就越……”;文中用的是the louder...the louder...
eg. The more he gets, the more he wants.
他越来越贪 。
eg. The higher the ground is, the thinner air becomes.
离地面越高,空气就越稀薄 。
4. other than
(用于否定陈述后)除了…以外;
eg. I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free.
我没有雄心大志,只求自由自在地过幸福生活 。
eg. He has no friend other than you.
他除你之外就没有别的朋友了 。
n. 典礼,仪式,礼节,礼仪