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环球英语网校 新概念英语第四册名师互动班讲义 Spare that Spiders 不要伤害蜘蛛 Sentence Analysis?句式分析 Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Translation?译文 你可能会觉得奇怪， 蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢？因为它们能消灭那么多的昆虫，其中包括一些人类的大敌. ? Sentence Analysis?句式分析 Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, [if it were not for the protection (we get from insect-eating animals)]. Translation?译文 要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护，昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去，昆虫会吞食我们的全部庄稼，杀死我们的成群的牛羊。 ? Devour?鉴赏 1.? to eat something very fast because you are hungry 2.? to destroy something completely ? We watched the flames?devour?the entire building. 我们看着火苗吞噬整座大楼。 The big fish continued to?devour?the little ones. 那条大鱼继续吞吃小鱼。 002 If it were not for If it were not for ???若不是...的话 ???If it?were?not for the sun, there would be nothing living. ???如果没有太阳就不会有生命. ???If it?were?not for this defect, I shall hire him at once. ???如果不是因为这个缺点,我会马上雇用他。 ? ???若不是...的话 ???But for/that: ???He might have been killed?but for?the arrival of the police. ???要不是警察来了他本可能被杀死。 ???But for?the massive injection of public funds, the company would have gone bankrupt earlier. ???要不是大量注入公积金,这家公司可能早就倒闭了。 ? Sentence Analysis?句式分析 We owe a lot to the birds and beasts (who eat insects) but all of them (put together) kill only a fraction of the number (destroyed by spiders). Translation?译文 我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。 ? Owe … to … ???把...归功于;?感激于… ???I have had the time of my life and I?owe?it all?to?you. ???我生命中的美好时光全都归功于你。 ???I?owe?so much?to?my family for standing by me through all this. ???我非常感激我的家人,他们支持我经历了所有这一切。 ? Fraction?鉴赏 ???fraction :?指包含在全体中的一部分，暗示微不足道的一部分。 ???This would be a huge step, threatening an open-ended entanglement, though Libya’s population is only a?fraction?of Iraq’s or Afghanistan’s. ???这会是一个很大的动作,虽然利比亚人口仅是伊拉克或阿富汗的几分之一,但仍可能导致一场结局未知的僵局。 ? Sentence Analysis?句式分析 Moreover,