裕兴新概念英语第二册笔记 第23课.docVIP

Lesson 23 A new house新居 Why is the new house special? I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district. 参考译文 昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亚。在信中她说她明年将到英国来。如果她来了，她会感到非常惊奇了。我们现在住在乡间的一栋漂亮的新住宅里。这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在5个月以前竣工的。我在信中告诉她，她可以和我们住在一起。这栋房子里有许多房间，还有一个漂亮的花园。它是一栋非常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很古怪。它肯定是这个地区唯一的一栋现代化住宅。 【New words and expressions】（）1 complete[k?mpli:t] v.完成 2 modern [m?d?n] a.新式的， 3 strange [streind?] a.奇怪的 4 district [distrikt] n.地区 一．单词讲解： complete? adj./n. adj. （很少有比较级、最高级的变化） 1) 全部的，完备的 the complete works of Hemingway 海明威全集 a large house complete with swimming pool 一所设备齐全带有游泳池的大房子 2) 彻底的，完全的 a complete victory 完胜 a complete failure 彻底的失败 be complete完成/ be finished eg. My work will be complete next week. 我的工作将于下周完成。 vt. 完成，做完，完结 eg. The bridge isn’t completed yet. 这座桥还没有竣工。 completely? adv. 完全地，全部地 eg. I was completely at a loss what to do. 我完全不知道怎么办才好。 ?at a loss： not knowing what to do or say不知如何是好; 茫然; 困惑 强调的副词： quite 十分 absolutely / completely 完全地 much 非常 rather 相当地 considerably 颇 slightly 稍微 a bit, a little 有一点儿 modern? adj. 1) 现代的，近代的 modern times 现代 a modern discovery 最近的发现 2) 现代的，时髦的 eg. I’m afraid your ideas are not modern. 恐怕你的主意已经过时了。 modern school （英国不升大学的）中等学校 modernization? n. 现代化 modern (a.) → modernize (v.) 使…现代化 →? modernization (n.) 现代化 the four modernizations 四个现代化 类似的变化： real → realize → realization globe → global → globalize → globalization strange? adj. 奇怪的，陌生的，生疏的，外行的，不习惯的 eg. I am quite strange here. 我对这里相当不熟悉。 be strange at football 对足球是个外行 eg. He was still