[上册]Unit 6.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * passionate adj. affected by, expressing intense feeling 强烈的，激情的 Tom is a passionate social reformer. 汤姆是一个狂热的社会改革家。 He was very passionate in his likes and dislikes. 他的好恶爱憎非常强烈。 he president delivered a passionate speech. 总统发表了充满激情的讲话。 being n. existence 存在，生存 That was what she was for, that was her reason for her being. 那是她做人的目的，那是她生存的理由。 It is the mother who gave him his being (life) 是母亲给予了他生命。 nay adv. not only so, but 不仅，而且 She has many good, nay, noble qualities. 她不仅有许多好的，而且还有许多高贵的品质。 The letter made him happy, nay, ecstatic. 这封信不仅使他高兴，而且欣喜若狂。 dawn on/upon to become gradually known or realized by someone 逐渐被理解，被领悟 The truth finally dawned on/upon him. 他最终明白了真相。 It suddenly dawned on me that I was late. 我突然意识到我迟到了。 The answer dawned on me when l was not thinking about the work． 我不考虑工作的时候倒明白了这个答案。 sustain v. 1. to undergo, suffer 遭受 The army sustained heavy losses. 军队蒙受了很大的损失。 The Iraqi army sustained a complete defeat in the second Persian War. 伊拉克军队在第二次海湾战争中遭到了彻底失败。 sustain v. 2. to bear up from below，support，bear the weight of 支撑，承受 The bridge can sustain the weight of all the trucks. 这座桥梁可以承受所有卡车的重量。 Our financial base is stable enough to sustain the extra expenses. 我们的经济实力已经相当稳定，足以承担的起这些额外开支。 as it were as it were actually so, so to speak 不妨这样说 He became, as it were, a man without a country. 不妨这样说，他成了一个没有国家的人。 I’m a sort of unpaid adviser, as it were, to the committee. 某种程度上，我是这个委员会的义务顾问。 fashion v. to construct usually with the use of imagination建造 Primitive men fashioned tools from stones. 原始人用石头制作工具。 This is the very hut fashioned of bent-over samplings. 这正是那个用弄弯的幼树搭成的窝棚。 Some useful expressions: be all the fashion极时髦 come into fashion开始风行 follow the fashion赶时髦 in a fashion合于时尚 finite adj. having bounds or limits，measurable 有限的 There are a finite number of facts. 为数有限的事实。 weave v. to combine into a connected whole; knit 编造，编织 You stole the money and weaved a pl