大学跨文化英语 综合教程I Unit 4 Relating to Animals语言点.pdfVIP

Text A Language points 1. Never give up on anything, least of all a dog. — Never give up hope on anything, especially a dog. give up on: stop hoping that sb. or sth. will change or improve 放弃对……的 希望 e.g. He’d been in a coma for six months, and doctors had almost given up on him. At that point, I hadn’t completely given up on the marriage. least of all : especially not 最不，尤其 e.g. I never hid the truth, least of all from you. No one ever reads these articles, least of all me. 2. in the dead of night: in the middle of the night 夜深人静之时 e.g. I crept out of bed in the dead of night and sneaked downstairs. The man was still wandering around the street in the dead of night. 3. She was more than half dead, starved down to bones, her hair completely eaten away by mange. — She was very skinny and almost dead from the lac of food, and her hair was completely destroyed by a skin disease. starve vi. suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat 挨饿，饿死 e.g. Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city. They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death. eat away: reduce or destroy sth. gradually 侵蚀，使消耗殆尽 e.g. The stones are being eaten away by pollution. The coastline is being eaten away year by year. 4. She had been run off from more than one yard when she finally crept into an empty doghouse in the trees beyond mother’s yard. — She was chased off from a few places until she finally inched her way into an empty doghouse in the trees outside mother’s yard. run off: force sb. to leave a place 赶走 e.g. He tried to run me off the road. Smith ran them off his property with a rifle. creep vi. move in a quiet, careful way 悄悄地缓慢行进