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外研社 第八册 模块一 Language Points With annual rainfall close to zero, Antarctic is technically a desert. 南极洲年降雨量几乎为零，严格来说该区域就是一片荒漠。 1).with annual rainfall close to zero 为介词短语，表示原因，由介词“介词＋名词＋形容词（词组）组成，也即with +宾语＋形容词短语构成的复合结构。例如： With so many students weak in their pronunciation, they started from the beginning. He sat there quietly with mouth half open, listening to the radio. He sat there with his eyes fixed on the sky. He sat there with his hand pointing at me. He went to the classroom with a lot of homework to do. 2). close to 几乎，近于，靠近 They sat there close to each other. Their house was close to the church. Close to a hundred experiments have been made so far. 到目前为止已进行了近百次的试验。 3）technically adv. 严格地；准确地按照法律、词义等的解释；技术上的 ①Although technically speaking you may not have lied, but you certainly haven’t told us the whole truth. 尽管严格来说你没有撒谎，但肯定你没把实情都告诉我们。 ② Technically, I’m not supposed to do this, but we’re shot-staffed. 严格来说，我不该这么做，可是我们缺少人手。 ③Technically the building is a masterpiece, but few people like it. 就技术而言，那座建筑物是个杰作，但却没人喜欢。 Covering about 14 million square kilometers around the South Pole, it is the fifth largest continent in the world. 南极洲覆盖了南极圈周围1，400平方公里的面积，是世界第五大洲。 covering about…在句子中作状语。 the fifth largest continent in the world. 形容词最高级前面的修饰成分为序数词。 Is it the third longest river in the world? 形容词最高级前面还可有其他的成分。It was by far the best university I have visited. It was of the very highest quality. On average it is two kilometers thick, but in some places it reaches a depth of five kilometers. (南极洲)冰层平均厚度为2，000米，但某些地方厚度可以达到5，000米。 词组two kilometers thick,形容词thick 增加了修饰成分two kilometers。例如： The rope is two meters long. The well is 12 meters deep. 但是注意下面情况： It is a 12-meter-long rope. The 12-meter-deep well is the deepest one in our village. Yet Antarctica is full of wildlife, which has adapted to its extreme conditions. 但南极洲仍然栖息着许多野生生物，它们已经适应了那里的恶劣的条件。 full of 充满了 The room is full of smoke. adapt ①使适应；使适合（与to连用）。 He could not adapted to his way of life to the co