Sailing the oceans同步教学课件7.pptVIP

5 Imagine you are on a boat with twenty-nine other people. You have a small box for your personal things but it can only hold ten items. What would you need for a weeks journey across the North Sea to England? Category Items Category Items Clothes Shoes Hygiene Tools Bedding Medicines Games Books shirt, trousers waterproof boots soap scissors, knife blanket sea-sick tablets, cold medicine cards, chess novels, essay collections 1. at the mercy of 听任…摆布，在…面前无能为力 They were lost at sea at the mercy of wind and weather. have / show mercy on sb. 宽恕或怜悯某人； without mercy 毫不容情地 Avoid (making ) any reference to his illness . 千万别提起他的病。 2. reference n. ① 提到; 说到; 涉及 ② 附注; 旁注 check your references 要核对引证的资料 【知识拓展】 refer v . 提到，说起，涉及；参考， 查询，常与to 连用。 When I said some people are stupid I wasn’t referring to you. 当我说某个人很愚蠢的时候，我没有提到你。 If you don’t know what this means, please refer to the dictionary. 如果你不知道这是什么意思，请查看字典。 She simplified the instructions so that the children could understand them. 她简化了指令以便于儿童理解。 3 simplify v. 简化; 使单纯 That will simplify my task. 那可简化了我的工作。 1. The data should be updated once a week. 这些数据应该每星期更新一次。 2. Maps need regular updates. 地图需要经常修订。 3. I updated the committee on our progress. 我向委员会报告了我们的进展情况。 4 update v. 更新; 补充最新资料 S subject 主语 P predicate 谓语 O object 宾语 Att attribute 定语 Adv adverbial 状语 Com complement 补语 Pre predicative 表语 C clause 从句 Short forms 缩略语 Difficult sentences analysis 1 The number of knots that were counted during a fixed period of time gave the speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour． 一定时段得出的绳节数显示航船的海哩时速。 S Att C P O Adv 2. Later, when seamen began to use the compass in the 12th century they could calculate longitude using complicated mathematical tables． 后来到了十二世纪海员开始使用指南 针的时候，他们就能够借助复杂的数 学表格计算出航行的经度了。 using complicated