2012届高三英语一轮复习课件（北师大版）：M6 unit 16-2 Stories.pptVIP

2. Around the end of the first century AD, a Roman writer called Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption that he had witnessed as a young man. 公元1世纪末，一个叫做普林尼的罗马作家 写了一次他年轻时目睹的毁灭性的火山爆发。 本句话含有一个过去分词短语“called Pliny”, 修饰writer; 一个修饰eruption的定语从句“that he had witnessed as a young man”。句子的主要 结构是“a Roman writer wrote about a volcanic eruption”。 3. However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the forms of the people who were caught in the disaster that have made the city a monument to human history. 但是，与城里的建筑及物品相比，那些在灾 难中遇难的人的轮廓像则更使这个城市成为