现代与大学英语精读3第4单元知识点归纳.docVIP

Unit 4 to wrench yourself away from: to twist and pull yourself away (or free) from wrench vt. To pull at the feelings or emotions of挫折使感情或情绪受折磨；distress压抑; afflict使痛苦 eg.: It wrenched her to watch them go. 看着他们离开，她很难受It wrenched her to say goodbye. patchwork of farms and woodland patchwork n.拼缝物, 拼缀物, 拼凑物woodland: a piece of land covered with trees森林地, 林地 In the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants [鸟] 雉, 野鸡rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked. (p.2) to verge against: to be close to; to be at the edge or border of verge vi. (1) to be very close to a place；to be contiguous 邻近, 接近eg.: streets verging on the slum area 贫民区周围的街道 (2) To approach the nature or condition of something specified; come close. Used with on: 接近，逼近接近具体指定的某物的性质或情况；走近。与 on连用： verge on [upon]接近, 濒于 eg.: Such a remark verges on impertinence. 简直是唐突无礼。a brilliance verging on genius.近乎天才的才智 ? Notice how the preposition against is used to mean next to, touching or hitting the surface of (课本p.98-6) e. g. A heavy rain was pattering against the windows. He stood his stick against the wall. . . . and pheasants rocketed off: . . . and pheasants went off like rockets. rocket v.intr. (1)to move swiftly and powerfully, as a rocket. 像火箭般迅速而有力地运动 (2) To soar or rise rapidly:迅速上升或猛涨 The book rocketed to the top of the bestseller list.这本书一下子就跃居畅销书榜首 Compare: ? Factories mushroomed. (They grew like mushroom. ) ? He tried to worm into that organization. ( He tried to get into that organization like a worm. ) ? It could snowball into a serious conflict. (It could gradually develop into a serious conflict like a snowball. ) snowball vi. to grow rapidly in significance, importance, or size: 滚雪球般地增长, eg.: problems that snowballed by the hour.问题按小时计算滚雪球般地增长 ? He was wolfing it down as if he had not eaten for days. (He was eating it very quickly like a wolf. ) I spent most of my time roaming the woods and fields alone, playing Robin Ho