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Lesson 40 Food and talk 【New words and expressions】(6) ★hostess n. 女主人 host n. 男主人；v. 作为主人, 主办 actor n. 男演员； actress n. 女演员 ★unsmiling adj. 不笑的(un+smiling, 但并不一定表示“严肃”)serious adj.严肃的, 认真的, 严 重的 ★tight adj. 紧身的 tight jeans 紧身牛仔裤 The shoes are small/tight. (夹脚, 很紧) tights n. 贴身衬衣, 紧身衣, 女用连裤袜 ★fix ① v. 使……固定、安装 She fixed a handle on the door. fix on 使(目光、注意力等)集中于，盯着 fix ones eyes on sth./ones eyes be fixed on sth. 盯着……目不转睛(习惯用被动) ② v. 修理 ★globe n. 地球，球状物, 如地球仪；adj. 全球的 global problem 全球性的问题 earth n. 地球 global “阁楼宝”，一种灭蟑螂的药名 ★despair n. 绝望, 失望, 令人失望的人(事物)；vi.绝望 in despair  绝望的 sb./sth. is the despair of… …让……感到绝望 The boy is the despair of his parents. 那男孩的父母对他感到绝望了。This boy is his mothers despair. 这个男孩使他妈绝望了。 The examination was the despair of me. = The examination was my despair.我对考试已经绝望了。 disappoint vt. 使失望 【课文讲解】 1、Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. dinner 为不可数名词，“at a dinner party”中的“a”并不修饰“dinner”而是 “party”,have dinner 不加“a” ask sb. to do sth. 叫某人做某事 next to 与……相邻，挨着(既可表示座位挨着也可以表示地理位置上挨着) 2、Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress. unsmiling 表示 bad mix，很难与人融合。unsmiling 的反义词为 smiling(微笑的，喜气洋洋的)。 有些形容词前面可以加上前缀 un-来表示相反的意义：comfortable(舒服的)/ uncomfortable(不舒 服的)，true(真实的)/untrue(不真实的)，interesting(有趣的)/ uninteresting(无趣味的，乏味的) 。 in 在这里表示“穿着、戴着”： A young man in a blue dress is inquiring for you. (inquiring for sb. 要找(某人)，求见某人) 3、She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her. take a seat 坐下，比 sit 要正式 take one’s seat 表示位置事先已安排好 4、if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!’ 在并列句中，相同的句子成分(如主语、谓语、状语等)通常由同一词性的单词/词组表示，并且 它们的长度也差不多，以保持句子的平衡性。 You can either go out or stay here. 【Composition】 She refused to answer any questions. She did not ask any questions. (not only…but…either) She was not interested in the theatre. She was not interested in travel. (neither…nor) 1 She not only refused to answer question but she did not ask any question either. =She not only refused to