高级英语第一课Face_to_Face_with_Hurricane_Camille.pptVIP

Exercise IV 1. We’re 23 feet above sea level. 2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it. 3.We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage. 4. water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights went out. 5. everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars 6. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water. 7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilty because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland. 8. Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely. 9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped. 10. Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane. Exercise VII pp.12-13 Destroy: is a general word with few overtones beyond its emphasis on force and thoroughness. Demolish and raze are generally applied to big or substantial things, such as buildings or other edifices. A building is demolished if smashed to pieces and razed if levelled to the ground. Demolish is often used figuratively of the reduction of any complex whole to ruins. Exercise VII pp.12-13 E.g. To demolish a theory with a few incisive comment. Raze is used almost invariably of buildings or their remains E.g. to raze the upright timbers left in the aftermath of the fire. Annihilate is the most extreme word in this list, and literally means to reduce to nothingness( 化为乌有). As more commonly used, however, it denotes a severe degree of damage to a thing or person. An army may annihilate an enemy force by so damaging it as to render it incapable of further offensive or defensive action, but without literally removing all traces of its existence. A debater may be said to annihilate his opponent if he defeats him decisively.( 彻底驳倒对手） Exercise VII pp.12-13 Decay i