chapter3 , Middle Ages 2.ppt

Chapter 2 Middle Ages Word Study---phrase Sweep (风、汹涌的海水等)席卷,横扫,掠过 ; (事件、思想、信仰)迅速传播,席卷 An icy wind swept through the streets... 一阵寒风扫过街道。 Suddenly, she was swept along by the crowd. 一时间，她被人群推搡着向前走。 流感正在莫斯科迅速蔓延。 A flu epidemic is sweeping through Moscow. In the latter part of the forth century, the Huns swept into Europe from central Asia Word Study---phrase Give way to to yield to someone or something; to give preference to someone or something ; to be replaced by something 让路；让位于；让步 The cars gave way to the pedestrians. My excitement gave way to fear when I drove a car for the first time. A powered vessel should give way to sail — it is an unwritten rule of the sea. 机动船在遇到帆船时必须让其先行,这是一条不成文的航海规则. A deadlock was reached in the discussions, as neither side would give way to the other. The political unity had given way to widespread destruction and confusion. Word Study---phrase take the lead占主要地位, 领先, 带头 Now everybody sing! Ill take the lead. They invariably take the lead in battles against floods. 在抗洪斗争中,他们总是带头的. Rows of dragons pull downstream, each striving to take the lead. 一排排的“蛟龙”如箭离弦,顺流而下, 欲争群龙首. Christianity took the lead in politics, law, art, and learning for hundreds of years. Word Study---phrase Merge (使)合并;(使)融合 Bank of America merged with a rival bank. 美国银行与一家竞争银行合并了。 The rivers merge just north of a vital irrigation system. 就在一个重要的灌溉系统的北边，这些河流交汇在一起。 Night and day begin to merge. 夜尽昼来。 His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms. She was a fusion of the dreamer and doer. This is a period in which classical, Hebrew and Gothic heritage merged. It is this fusion and blending of different ideas and practices that paved the way for what is present-day European culture Word Study---phrase unify （使）成一体；（使）联合；（使）统一 It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula. Both sides say they want to re-unify their country, whic