HEIHEI
• Religion seems to be a watchful dog with threatening appearance and becomes less comforting when it loses its credibility or when it distances itself from people by taking a sociological form.
• Generally, superstition has something to do with man’s strong desire to know what will happen to him in the future and his wish to have some control over his fate.
1. His parents were worried by his increasingly irrational behavior.
2. The film was condemned by some critics for its sexist portrayal of women.
3. Don’t feel under any compulsion to take me with you. I won’t be offended if you don’t.
4. He demonstrated a worrying naivete about political issues.
5. I remain aloof from them every time they start to quarrel.
6. There is no need to panic. The police have the situation in hand.
7. A good boss is not easy to come by.
8. Any sign of remorse was completely absent from her face.
9. You must try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind.
10. She has a strong hold on her daughter
U10
• 1.She relinquished (the) control of (the) family investments to her son.
• (With) a knife clenched between his teeth, the boy climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
• 2.The boy, clenching a knife between his teeth, climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
(Clenching a knife between his teeth, the boy….)
• 3.This small company has been enjoined to end all such restrictions on consumers.
• 4.They were finally reconciled to each other, after not on speaking terms for nearly five years (after nearly fiver years of silence / estrangement; after five years of absence/lack of communication or contact).
• 5.We only have a finite amount of time to complete this task --- we can’t continue indefinitely.
• We can only complete this task in / with finite time --- we can’t continue indefinitely.
• 6.He nearly died in the car accident and was in intensive care for over a month. (Nearly killed in the car accident, he was in intensive care for more than a month.)
• He thought his idea was the best, but it was a near miss; it only won second prize.
他以为他的构思最好，可是还是差了一点；它只得了二等奖。
• I had a near miss driving to work this morning when a lorry collided with the car in front of me.
今天早晨我开车去上班时差一点与一辆卡车相撞，那辆卡车结果撞上了我前面的那辆车。
• Her campaign for the Senate was a near miss.
• 7.It is an interesting book full of / filled with / imbued with valuable or profound or deep insights into human / interpersonal relationships.
• 8.I had a dim recollection of having seen / met her many years before (of seeing or meeting her many years ago).
• 9.I don’t relish telling her of her son’s arrest (telling her that her son has been arrested).
• 10.The demise of the company was sudden and unexpected.
U12
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Descendents
• Those famous writers in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: a famous writer in American colonial times
The range (and the reign) of accents on that damp little island…. (para.4)
There is such a wide range of accents on that damp little island that only the English people can understand the English spoken there and no one else can.
It is late in the day to attempt to penalize black people for having created a language….(para.6)
It is too late to try to blame black people for having created a language that is the only medium that allows the nation to see its dark side, a language without which the nation would suffer even more than it has.
• The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
• She had no qualms about lying to the police.
• In the evening, he likes to read books and articles that have nothing to do with his work.
• It’s that patronizing tone of hers that I can’t bear.
• The best movies are those which transcend national or cultural barriers.
• It goes without saying that we shall be very happy if we can all pass the examination.
• The yard is a mess (in a mess), to say nothing of the house.
• We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
• Their distrust is rooted in fear and ignorance.
• You could feel the tension in the room as we waited (were waiting) for our exam results.
U13
1. September – coming as scheduled and in its unhurried pace – begins to reap what summer has yielded.
2. The plant entrusts its future to the seed and the root. The insect produces the egg and pupa in which its future is stored.
3. By the end of September, the autumn season has gathered in an overwhelming abundance of wealth.
• We rushed out of the shop in hot pursuit, but the thief had vanished into thin air.
• If you want to be an actor you have to really commit yourself to it.
• He waited until his daughter was asleep, and then tiptoed quietly out of the bedroom.
• I can feel the blood pulsing through my veins.
• Middle age can be the prime of life if you have the right attitude.
• Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.
• In many people’s eyes, what he did has seriously diminished his reputation.
• Emma is a gregarious, outgoing sort of person.
• Because people expected prices to rise rapidly, they started to hoard goods.
• The changes are seen as a prelude to wide-ranging reforms.
• Generally, superstition has something to do with man’s strong desire to know what will happen to him in the future and his wish to have some control over his fate.
1. His parents were worried by his increasingly irrational behavior.
2. The film was condemned by some critics for its sexist portrayal of women.
3. Don’t feel under any compulsion to take me with you. I won’t be offended if you don’t.
4. He demonstrated a worrying naivete about political issues.
5. I remain aloof from them every time they start to quarrel.
6. There is no need to panic. The police have the situation in hand.
7. A good boss is not easy to come by.
8. Any sign of remorse was completely absent from her face.
9. You must try to banish all thoughts of revenge from your mind.
10. She has a strong hold on her daughter
U10
• 1.She relinquished (the) control of (the) family investments to her son.
• (With) a knife clenched between his teeth, the boy climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
• 2.The boy, clenching a knife between his teeth, climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
(Clenching a knife between his teeth, the boy….)
• 3.This small company has been enjoined to end all such restrictions on consumers.
• 4.They were finally reconciled to each other, after not on speaking terms for nearly five years (after nearly fiver years of silence / estrangement; after five years of absence/lack of communication or contact).
• 5.We only have a finite amount of time to complete this task --- we can’t continue indefinitely.
• We can only complete this task in / with finite time --- we can’t continue indefinitely.
• 6.He nearly died in the car accident and was in intensive care for over a month. (Nearly killed in the car accident, he was in intensive care for more than a month.)
• He thought his idea was the best, but it was a near miss; it only won second prize.
他以为他的构思最好，可是还是差了一点；它只得了二等奖。
• I had a near miss driving to work this morning when a lorry collided with the car in front of me.
今天早晨我开车去上班时差一点与一辆卡车相撞，那辆卡车结果撞上了我前面的那辆车。
• Her campaign for the Senate was a near miss.
• 7.It is an interesting book full of / filled with / imbued with valuable or profound or deep insights into human / interpersonal relationships.
• 8.I had a dim recollection of having seen / met her many years before (of seeing or meeting her many years ago).
• 9.I don’t relish telling her of her son’s arrest (telling her that her son has been arrested).
• 10.The demise of the company was sudden and unexpected.
U12
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Descendents
• Those famous writers in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: a famous writer in American colonial times
The range (and the reign) of accents on that damp little island…. (para.4)
There is such a wide range of accents on that damp little island that only the English people can understand the English spoken there and no one else can.
It is late in the day to attempt to penalize black people for having created a language….(para.6)
It is too late to try to blame black people for having created a language that is the only medium that allows the nation to see its dark side, a language without which the nation would suffer even more than it has.
• The meeting was a complete and utter waste of time.
• She had no qualms about lying to the police.
• In the evening, he likes to read books and articles that have nothing to do with his work.
• It’s that patronizing tone of hers that I can’t bear.
• The best movies are those which transcend national or cultural barriers.
• It goes without saying that we shall be very happy if we can all pass the examination.
• The yard is a mess (in a mess), to say nothing of the house.
• We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
• Their distrust is rooted in fear and ignorance.
• You could feel the tension in the room as we waited (were waiting) for our exam results.
U13
1. September – coming as scheduled and in its unhurried pace – begins to reap what summer has yielded.
2. The plant entrusts its future to the seed and the root. The insect produces the egg and pupa in which its future is stored.
3. By the end of September, the autumn season has gathered in an overwhelming abundance of wealth.
• We rushed out of the shop in hot pursuit, but the thief had vanished into thin air.
• If you want to be an actor you have to really commit yourself to it.
• He waited until his daughter was asleep, and then tiptoed quietly out of the bedroom.
• I can feel the blood pulsing through my veins.
• Middle age can be the prime of life if you have the right attitude.
• Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.
• In many people’s eyes, what he did has seriously diminished his reputation.
• Emma is a gregarious, outgoing sort of person.
• Because people expected prices to rise rapidly, they started to hoard goods.
• The changes are seen as a prelude to wide-ranging reforms.
