英语四六级长难句理解.pptVIP

长难句理解 (Paragraph A) An eager beaver is a person who is always willing to do and is excited about doing what is expected of him. 译文： 如果一个人总是很乐意做别人要求他做的工作，而且很有工作激情，这种人被称为“卖力的海狸”。 长难句理解 (Paragraph C) The expression is said to have come from the name of a hard-working animal — the beaver. 译文： 这一表达方式据说是源自一种勤劳的动物——海狸。 长难句理解 (Paragraph G) The trading posts, where they exchanged beaver skins for the goods they needed, became villages, and later towns and cities. 译文： 当年他们用海狸皮交换到所需商品所在的那些贸易站，以后渐渐发展成村庄，然后又发展成城镇。 长难句理解 (Paragraph H) The bag — one of the simplest and most useful things in every man or woman’s life — has given the world many strange expressions that are not very simple. 译文： 袋子——无论男女，每个人生活中最简单实用的物品之一——却给这个世界带来了许多奇怪而又不简单的语言表达方式。 长难句理解 (Paragraph L) When the dishonest tradesman opened the bag, out jumped a squealing cat, not a pig. 译文： 当这个不诚实的商人打开袋子时，里面跳出来的不是猪，而是一直“喵喵……”叫着的猫。 Vocabulary (I)核心词汇 dam, pond, mud, historian, settlement, European, settler, skin, head, territory, well-kept, secret, tradesman, dishonest, tricky Vocabulary (II)核心词汇 boatman, move, salesman, rainstorm, string, proverb, character, refer, saying, present, abstract, statement, truth, neglect, youth, education, former, latter, agriculture, disuse, assignment * 卖力工作的人 an eager beaver 愿意做/不愿做…… be (un)willing to do 对……充满激情，非常兴奋be excited about 对某人期望……/期望某人做……expect sth. of sb./expect sb. to do 解决问题 solve/settle/work out a problem 向某人抱怨某物/事complain to sb. about sth. 向某人抗议…… protest to sb against (doing) sth 来自于/起源于…… come/originate from 长相奇怪的动物 a strange-looking creature 砍伐树木/削减…… cut down trees/cut down on 搬走树枝 remove branches 把泥巴拍紧 pack mud 使某物牢固 make sth. solid 在……中起重要作用 play/have an important/vital part/role in 北美殖民地的开拓 the settlement of North America 数以亿计的 hundreds of thousands of （非常）重视，认识……的价值 put great value on 提供某人某物 provide sb. with sth./provide sth. for sb. 把……用作 use sth. as 寻求，搜寻 seach for 在对……的搜寻中 in one’s search for 把A交换成B exchange A for