Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camile
词汇注释
短语表达
课文理解
Ⅰ.背景介绍
Ⅱ.全文概述
Ⅲ.美文欣赏及写作特点
Ⅳ.核心内容解析
Ⅴ.参考译文
习题解析
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词汇注释
短语表达
课文理解
Ⅰ.背景介绍
Ⅱ.全文概述
Ⅲ.美文欣赏及写作特点
Ⅳ.核心内容解析
Ⅴ.参考译文
习题解析
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词汇注释
短语表达
课文理解
Ⅰ.背景介绍
Ⅱ.全文概述
Ⅲ.美文欣赏及写作特点
Ⅳ.核心内容解析
Ⅴ.参考译文
习题解析
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Lesson
one Face to
Face with Hurricane Camile
词汇注释
hurricane[''hrikn,-kin] n. a violent storm with extremely strong winds,
often happen in the western American Ocean 飓风
【例句】 Hurricanes generally occur in the tropics. 飓风通常发生热带地区。
course[ks] n. a regular mode or manner of action or
behavior; way of doing 行为,品行,做法
【例句】 Now the best course of
action is to increase tax on alcohol.现在最佳的对策就是提高酒税。
demolish [di''mli] v. to pull or tear down(a
building etc.),
smash to pieces拆毁
【例句】
Several houses were demolished to
make way for the new road.为了修建新路,一些房子被拆除了。
同义词:destroy,raze,annihilate
destroy一词最为常见,主要强调破坏的力度之大和彻底程度,一般不带感情或修辞色彩;demolish和raze通常用于巨大物体,如大型建筑物等,demolish常用引申义,指任何复合体的被毁,raze几乎无一例外地用于指建筑物的被毁;annihilate在这些词中所表示的损坏程度最为强烈,字面意思是“化为乌有”,但实际上往往用于指对人或物的严重损伤,如:annihilate
an enemy force使敌军遭到重创),不仅没有还手之力,而且没有招架之功;annihilate
one,s
opponent in a debate彻底驳倒对手)。
reason out: to find out an explanation or solution to a problem,by
thinking of all the possibilities寻找解决途径
【例句】Let,s reason this out instead of quarrelling.让我们不要争吵,商量出事情 的解决方案。
a good:at
least,full 至少,最少
【例句】They
waited a good eight hours.他们等了至少8个小时。
sit out: stay
until the end of 坐到结束
【例句】We
forced ourselves to sit the play out.我们强迫自己坐到演出结束。
come by:to
make a short visit to a place on one,s way 顺便拜访
【例句】I,ll come by the house and get my stuff
later,OK?我会顺便过来取材料,好吗?
by the minute:every
minute,minute
by minute 一分钟一分钟地
【例句】I,m
feeling better by the minute.我每分钟都感觉好多了。
on the verge of:on the edge of,on
the brink of接近于,瀕临于
【例句】
Scientists are on the verge of a
major breakthrough.科学家们即将取得一项重大突破。
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课文理解
Ⅰ.背景介绍
1. Hurricane:a
tropical storm in which winds attain speeds greater than 75 miles 121
kilometers per hour. The term is often restricted to those storms occurring
over the North Atlantic Ocean. Incipient(初始的)hurricanes
usually form over the tropical Atlantic Ocean and mature as they drift
westward. Hurricanes also occasionally form off the west coast of Mexico and
move northeastward from that area. An average of 3.5tropical storms per year
eventually mature into hurricanes along the east coast of North America,usually
over the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico.
Similar
storms occurring over the West Pacific Ocean and China Seas are called typhoons
and those over the Indian Ocean are called tropical cyclones(热带方旋风).Hurricanes
are given girls,names and typhoons are given serial
numbers(序号).The
National Weather Service of the United States has used girls,names
to identify hurricanes in the Atlantic,Caribbean,and Gulf of
Mexico since 1953 and the names were given in alphabetical order(按字母川页序).A
semi-pennanent list of 10 sets of names in alphabetical order was established
in 1971. This practice of giving girls’ names to hurricanes has changed
recently. In 1980 a hurricane was given a man ’ s name and was called Hurricane
David.