想象使形成视觉形象.pptVIP

Unit Two The Woman Who Would Not Tell * American Civil War April 12, 1861—May, 1865 Causes: The Northerners opposed and wanted to abolished slavery, or at least to stop its spread to new states. While the Southerners held that slavery should be allowed everywhere. The North believed in a strong central government, that is , the federal government should have more power than the state government. While most Southerners regarded the nation as a union of separate and more or less independent states. In November, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States. In December, South Carolina seceded from the Union. By Feb, 1st , six other states-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded. Early in Feb, They formed the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis as President. Lincoln Government that the Union should be preserved by force. On April 12, 1861, the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War began. More states joined the Confederacy and the capital was moved to Richmond, Virginia. But I could picture her as she was in the story she told me. Paraphrase: I could imagine what she looked like when the story took place. picture–to form a mental image of; visualize. 构想，想象使…形成视觉形象 It is hard to picture life a hundred years ago. 我们很难想象一百年前人们的生活。 --to describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of: 描述生动地用语言描绘；制成一幅生动的画： He pictured her heroism in glowing language. 他生动地描述了她的英雄事迹 barely: --by a very little; hardly: I could barely see the road in the fog. --in a scanty manner; sparsely: 简陋地；很少： a barely furnished room.陈设简陋的房间 Useful expressions: bare hill秃山 bare floors 不铺地毯的地板 a tree bare of leaves 没有树叶的树 the bare necessities of life 最起码的生活必需品 bare facts 简单明了的事实 He earns a bare living by his work.他工作收入仅够维持生活。 Bettie Van Metre had good reason to hate the Civil War. have good reason to do sth. one brother ki