新東方：新概念英語三冊全“句”透3

【課文例句1】： Editors of newspapers and magazines often go toextremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.

【例句精析】：go toextremes ( to do sth) 走極端;事情做絕了;事情做過分了

上述例句翻譯為“報紙雜志的編輯往往為了向讀者提供一些無關緊要的事實和數(shù)據(jù)而走向極端”;我們可以從“go to extremes”這一短語進一步歸納出其他類似的短語：go to the other / opposite extreme 走向另一個極端

【例句拓展】：1) 那位班長為了博得老師的歡心把事情都做絕了，以至于班上的每個人都恨他。

The monitor goes to such extremes to get the teacher’sappreciation that everyone in the class hates him now.

2)雖然這本書不怎么好，但那些評論家太過分了，說這是有史以來最糟糕的書了。

The book is not very good, but those critics have gone to extremes,saying that it is the worst one in the history.

3) 這種事情很少發(fā)生，因為我們這里氣候很少會發(fā)生異常

This is rare occurrence as our climate seldom goes to extremes. (新概念第三冊，L56)

4) 我總是說你缺乏鍛煉，但你也沒有必要走向另一個極端啊。

I always say that you do too little physical exercises, but there is noneed for you to go to the other / opposite extreme.

【課文例句2】： However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which heinformed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's

palace.

【例句精析】：“分詞后置作定語”和“定語從句”的轉換。

上述例句中請注意如下部分——the 1,084 stepsleading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace中的 leading to the fifteen-foot wall是steps的定語，which surrounded the president's palace是wall的定語。同樣是定語，卻選擇了不同的呈現(xiàn)方式，一個使用分詞后置作定語，一個使用定語從句。試問如果這兩處定語都改成定語從句會如何?即——the 1,084 steps which led to the fifteen-foot wall which surroundedthe president's palace. 很明顯作者之所以這樣考慮，是因為如果臨近語境中，兩次出現(xiàn)定語都用定語從句會構成視覺重復，行文略顯單一平淡。同學們也可以把這個寫作技巧運用到自己的書面語中去，讓我們的行文更顯得多樣化。

【例句拓展】： 1)..... the descriptions givenby people who claimed to haveseen the puma were extraordinarily similar. (新概念三冊L1)

2)The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman pickingblackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.(新概念三冊L1)

3) Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team calledMutilated Ladies which deals withclaims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog.(新概念三冊L7)

【高考真題鏈接】：“2014年上海英語高考閱讀理解SectionB (B)”

Researchers at the University of Barcelona gave people a questionnaire calledthe Implicit Association Test, which measures the strength of people'sassociations between, for instance, black people and adjectives such as good,bad, athletic or awkward.

“2013年上海英語高考閱讀理解Section B”

Researchersat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that they have succeededin 45 a specific area of the brain called the fusiform face area (FFA), whichis used only for facial recognition.