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Unit One Never Give In, Never, Never, Never Language WorkParagraph 1 1. at your Head Master’s kind invitation 受你们校长的好心邀请 at prep. in accord with, following Other examples: at one‘s request 依照/应…的请求 E.g. We came at your mother’s request. at one‘s disposal 听凭…自由处理,由…做主, 由…随意支配、使用 E.g. I put/left/placed my car at his disposal. at one’s command 由…支配; 听…吩咐, 奉…之命 E.g. He offered me all the money at his command. It was done at the queen’s command. I’m at your command. 我随时听候您的吩咐。 at ones service 随时供…使用; 随时为…提供服务/效劳 E.g. My car is at your service. If you need any help, I am at your service. 随时为您服务/效劳；请随时吩咐 at one‘s pleasure: as one wishes or desires 随…的意愿; 随意,请便 E.g. You may go or stay at your pleasure. at one’s convenience 在…方便时 E.g. Please do it at your convenience. Please send the goods at your earliest convenience. 从速、尽快 2. Synonyms: disaster, calamity, catastrophe (referring to an event having fatal or ruinous results “灾难”) disaster: generally implies great destruction, hardship, or loss of life； 尤指“不可预测的意外事件所造成的灾难或不幸” (e.g. natural disasters: a great flood or fire, an earthquake; a serious defeat in war; the loss of a large sum of money) adj. disastrous calamity: emphasizes distress, grief, or the sense of loss E.g. “the heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America” (James George Frazer). “英国历史上最沉重的灾难，是和美国关系的破裂“ （詹姆斯·乔治·弗雷泽）。 adj. calamitous catastrophe: especially stresses the sense of a tragic final outcome 指“突然而来造成极大苦难及毁灭的大灾难”或“异常的灾祸”, 含“最终结局无法补偿之意” adj. catastrophic 3. ups and downs: alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. 高低起伏; 沉浮, 兴衰, 顺逆, 荣枯：好运和坏运（或好心情和坏心情）的交替变换的时期 E.g. With constant ups and downs as well as numerous turns and twists along the range of hills it sits on, Badaling looks very much like a dragon with imposing magnificence. 八达岭高低起伏,曲折绵廷,宛若苍龙,气势磅礴。 The ups and downs of pitch makes speaking Chinese sound like singing. 声调的抑扬起伏使中国人说话像唱歌。 What are the Ups and downs? 6 ,194