Unit8Languagepoints.doc

Unit 8 Language points now…now…: at one time...at another time... * What mixed weather, now sunny, now cloudy. (=The market is very unstable, with the price now rising, now falling.) Collocation: before now 以前 by now 到现在，至今 now and again/then 时而，偶尔 from now on 从现在起，今后 Now or never! 机不可失, 时不再来! now that 既然, 由于 up to now/till now 到现在为止, 迄今 in (all) silence：with (complete) absence of sound or noise * 我们不能对这件不公平的事不闻不问。 (=We should not pass over this unfair thing in silence.) * The boys listened to the story in silence. tangle: 1. v. 1) catch in or as in a net, trap; mix together or intertwine in a confused mass * My long hair’s so tangled that I can’t comb it. * Don’t move. You’re tangling them up. 2) be involved in a fight or quarrel * I tangled with her over the mathematic homework. * They tangled heatedly over the problem. 2. n. confused mass or disordered state *他的思想陷于困惑之中。 (=His mind was in a tangle.) (= The traffic was in a terrible tangle because of the power failure.) Collocation: tangle over 对…发生争论 tangle up 缠在一起，弄乱 tangle with sb. 与某人发生纠纷，与某人发生口角，与某人打架 be in a tangle 纠缠不清，陷于混乱之中 trail: 1. vi. 1) extend over a surface * We like very much the vines trailing through the garden. * The tablecloth trails on the floor. 2) walk tiredly * 被打败的军队疲惫地走过我们的身边。 (=The defeated army trailed past us.) 2. vt. drag, pull * The child was trailing a toy dog, screaming happily. * The nun trailed her gown through the mud. follow the tracks of * The policemen trailed the suspect for several days and finally to his hiding-place. * The hunters trailed a tiger for hours. 3. n. mark, trace * 受伤的动物在身后留下一道血迹。 (=The wounded animal left a trail of blood behind it.) * Follow the trail until you come to the camp. Collocation: trail after 追随 trail off/away 变弱，逐渐缩小 blaze a /the trail (在森林中)在树上刻出指路的标志；开辟道路 follow the trail 追踪 in trail 成一列纵队 off the trail 失去踪迹；偏离目标 on the trail 跟踪，追赶 C