新编大学英语第一册Unit06.ppt

我妈打电话的时候，我们一定正在校园里玩。 We must have been playing on campus when my mother phoned. You must be joking. 你一定在开玩笑。 My parents mustn’t have received my letter, otherwise they would have posted me money. 我父母一定没收到我的信，否则，他们肯定给我寄钱了。 The discovery of methane gas on the seafloor of the Bermuda Triangle started a scientist, Dr. Mclver, thinking about an explanation for the mysteries. (Line 47) start sb. doing 表示“引起 / 让某人做某事”。 百慕大海底甲烷的发现使得一位科学家，麦克维尔博士，开始思考如何解释这些神秘现象。 The smoke starts me coughing. 这烟让我咳嗽起来。 这消息使他陷入了沉思。 The news started him thinking. This latest theory has yet to be proved but seems to offer a better explanation as to why Flight 19 and all the other planes, ships and people have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. ( Line 55) as to … (复合介词) 可置于句首或句中。根据句意，有时可不用译出。 “关于······，至于······，以······而论” 这一最新理论仍有待证实，但它似乎给第19空军小队以及所有其他的飞机、船只和人员的失踪提供了一种更好的解释。 Every week the president receives reports as to what is going on. 每周，总统都收到事态进展情况的报告。 There is no doubt as to his honesty. 他的诚实毫无疑问。 ?consist of (Line 2, Para. 1) be made up of 由······组成，由······构成 As we know, the famous rock band “The Beatles” _____________________. 如我们所知，著名的摇滚乐队“甲壳虫”由四名成员组成。 consists of four members 短语辨析：consist of 与 be composed of consist of 只有主动结构用法，不用进行时 The committee consists of ten members. 委员会由十人组成. a mixture consisting of flour and water 面粉和水的混合物. Twenty students composed the school soccer team. The school soccer team was composed of twenty students. be composed of 是由及物动词compose 的被动语态构成。 试比较以下两句： 两句话句义相同，但强调的成分有所不同。 前一句强调“20名学生”，后一句强调“校足球队”。 on board (Line 4, Para. 1) on a ship, airplane, train, etc. 在船（或飞机、火车等）上 He has never been on board a plane before. We almost felt we were on board the spacecraft. 注意：使用时可在短语后加该运输方式 如 on board a plane, on board the ship 我们几乎觉得自己是坐在宇宙飞船上。 他从未乘过飞机。 Many touching stories _______________________ are probably never known to us. happening on board Titanic 我们或许永远都无法知道发生在泰坦尼克号上的诸多感人的