新视野大学英语一Unit 10 Being honest and open语言点.docVIP

Language Points in Unit 10 Being honest and open Sentence analysis 1. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: “Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.” (Line 2) 句中 “Life is like a field…” 运用了明喻的修辞手法生动地说明了生活的实质。 明喻(Simile) 是一种最简单、最常见的修辞方法，是以两种具有共同特征的事物或现象进行对比，表明本体和喻体的关系，其基本格式是“A 像B”，常用的比喻词有 “as, like, as if, as though” 等。 句中 “where”作连词用，引起地点状语。意为：“at the place (at) which” 在任何地方“to any place that” 去任何地方。 Translations: 英译汉并指出句中明喻。 Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. (John Ruskin). 生活没有目标犹如航行没有指南针。 Records fell like ripe apples on a windy day. (E.B. White) 被打破的记录犹如刮风天成熟的苹果——纷纷坠落。 I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy...(Charles Dickens) 我像羽毛一样轻，我像天使一样幸福, 我像小学生一样快活······ Complete the following sentences with “where” as a conjunction. Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise. 如果无知是福的话，愚蠢就是智慧。 Where conscience remains, integrity stays. 诚实乃本性之所在。 Where bees are/where there are bees, there is honey. 哪儿有蜜蜂哪儿就有蜜。 Where some are old and weak/where the weak and old are, others must shoulder the burden. 在有些人年老体弱时其他人就该担起责任。 Translation: 在他们起居室的墙上挂着一副字，上面写着一句朴实无华的格言：“生活如雪后初霁的大地。足之所至，迹必留之。” 2. They understood instinctively that integrity involves having a personal standard of morality and boundaries that does not sell out to convenience and that is not relative to the situation at hand. (Line 5) 句中用了三个“that”从句。 “that integrity involves…”为 “understood”的宾语从句。后面两个是由 “and” 连接的定语从句修饰“standard”。 sell out (to): let down one’s cause, or one’s side (to someone) 出卖，背叛 1) 他为财富而背叛了自己的抱负和志愿。 He sold out to ambition and the determination for wealth. 2) 这个军官被指控投敌。 The officer was charged with selling out to the enemy. 3) 他背叛了他的艺术原则，现在只为钱写作。 He sold out his artistic standards and now just writes for money. 他们生来就认为，所谓正直，就是有自己的道德界定标准，既不贪财图利，也不因所处的环境而妥协。 3. A good test for this value is to apply what I call the “Integrity Triangle”, which