《创新大学英语·综合教程·2册》教学课件CX_B2_U3_SENTENCE.pptVIP

Unit Three Sentence Study New to New York City, he was worn down by the hustle and bustle, no longer excited and proud about relocating to Manhattan, as he had been weeks earlier. (P.1) Being a new arrival to New York City, he found it extremely difficult to adapt to the busy, noisy life there. All the excitement and pride he had once felt soon left him. New to New York City 和 no longer excited and proud about relocating to Manhattan是形容词短语作状语。 He’d imagined himself a hot young talent, taking the magazine world by storm, only to end up doing grunt work as a low-level assistant on a barely-making-it salary. (P.1) He once thought he would make a hit in the magazine world with his amazing writing ability, but contrary to his expectation, he found he was doing a difficult and uninteresting job as a low-level assistant with a small salary. only to used to say that sb. did sth., with a disappointing or surprising result 不料竟会……，没想到会…… e.g. He had once tried visiting her, only to meet with a rather cool response. I arrived only to find that the others had already left. “low-level” and “barely-making-it” are compound adjectives, which are adjectives which are comprised of more than one word.? Hyphens are used to link the words together to show that they act as if it were one adjective. e.g.Please request a four-foot table. It is a 6document. Claire worked as a part-time keeper at the safari park. That is an all-too-common mistake. He couldn’t afford his own place and felt uncomfortable sponging off a friend. (P.1) He had not enough money to rent a house for himself, and had to depend on his friend for help, which made him feel unpleasant. “I don’t know what possessed me, but I decided to start counting things along the way that made me happy,” he says. “I just wanted to see how many pleasing things I came across.” (P.3) He says: “I don’t know what made me do it, but I made a decision that I would count the happy things I met on the way to getting the photos.” First o