我们现在称之为美利坚合众国的国家是近18世纪末的时候....pptVIP

Module 3Slavery and the American Civil War Language points 1．The country we now know as the United States of America came into existence towards the end of the 18th century． 我们现在称之为美利坚合众国的国家是近18世纪末的时候才出现的。 come into existence 出现；产生；开始存在 2．More states joined as time passed，and by 1860 the USA，or Union as it was often called，had covered a large part of the continent of North America． 随着时间的推移，更多的州加入进来，到1860年，美利坚合众国，或者按当时人们通常称为联邦的版图已经包括了北美洲的很大一部分。 cover 这里指“范围为；占” 3．Slave ships carried slaves over from Africa，keeping them in such terrible conditions that many died during the long sea journey． 运奴船从非洲把奴隶运来，使他们置于极其恶劣的条件下，以致于很多奴隶死于漫长的航程中。 4．Only the Southern states insisted on keeping it，mainly because they needed cotton more than the more industrialized North． 只有南部诸州坚持保留奴隶制，主要是由于相对于工业化程度高的北方他们更需要棉花。 insist on坚持 5．Lincoln did not agree to this and less than a month later，on 12 April，1861，the American Civil War began. 林肯不同意他们这么做，因而在不到一个月后的1861年4月12日，美国内战爆发了。 6．On both sides，hundreds of thousands of young men died。 双方都有几十万的年轻人战死。 7．But the result of the Civil War was that slavery was abolished and all black Southern slaves were freed． 然而内战的结国是奴隶制被废除，南方所有黑奴获得自由。 这里的free是构词法中词性转化的一个例子。 8．His father had been a slave to the Northrup family，but had been freed． 他父亲曾经是诺思拉普家族的奴隶，但已或自由。 请注意 a slave 后面的介词是 to 而非 of。 9．In 1841，while working on a farm，Solomon met two men who offered him a job playing the violin in a travelling circus。1841年，正在农场干活儿的所罗门遇见两个人，他们为他提供了一个在巡回演出的马戏团拉小提琴的工作。 while working on a farm=while he was working on a farm 10．He was beaten and threatened with death if he ever revealed his true identity。 他遭到毒打，并被威胁不准泄露自己的真实身份，否则就要他的命。 11．His third owner，called Edwin Epps，owned a cotton plantation that was typical of that period。 他的第三个主人叫埃德温·埃普斯，拥有当时典型的棉花种植园。 12. These days，more often than not，after watching a TV programme，my reaction is to say，“So what?” and yawn． 这些天，看完一个电视节目后我通常的反应是嘟囔一句“有什么啊？”然后就哈欠连天。 more often than not 通常 13．Sadly，I can count