重点词汇词组:
Hermione1 was skimming through2 all her notes3, hoping to come across one of the enchantments4 they were about to try to break5.
长难句分析
解:1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4状语+5定语从句
析:现在分词短语“hoping to come across one of the enchantments”在句中作伴随状语;“they were about to try to break”是定语从句,修饰先行词one of the enchantments,此处省略了在定语从句中作宾语的关系代词that/which。
1.after all 毕竟;终究
例:The rain has stopped, so the game will go ahead after all.
雨已经停了,所以比赛还会继续下去。
常见搭配:
①all in all 总的说来,总之
例:All in all, I think you've done very well.
总的说来,我觉得你做得很不错。
②all but 几乎,差不多
例:The game was all but over by the time we arrived.
我们到那儿时,比赛差不多要结束了。
2.skim through 浏览;略读
例:He skimmed through the article trying to find his name.
他浏览文章寻找自己的名字。
常见搭配:skim sb./sth. off 挑选;暗中窃取
例:He got caught skimming off funds from the charity.
他被发现从慈善机构窃取钱财。
3.come across 偶然发现;碰见
例:He came across some of his old love letters in his wife's desk.
他在妻子的抽屉里偶然翻到了他以前写的一些情书。
常见搭配:
①come about 发生;产生
例:How did the problem come about in the first place?
当初这个问题是怎么产生的?
②come up with sth. 想出,提出
例:She's come up with some amazing scheme to double her income.
她想出一个惊人的计划来使自己的收入增加一倍。
相关俚语:come from behind (比赛中)成功实现逆转,后来居上
例:England came from behind to beat Scotland 2–1.
英格兰队成功实现逆转,以2比1战胜了苏格兰队。
4.drift off 渐渐入睡
例:I couldn't help drifting off in the middle of that lecture.
我在听讲座的过程中不知不觉地睡着了。
常见搭配:drift apart 渐渐疏远
例:As children we were very close, but as we grew up we just drifted apart.
孩提时我们亲密无间,但随着年龄的增长我们就逐渐疏远了。
5.fall on sth. (目光)落在……上
例:Her gaze fell upon a small box at the back of the shop.
她的目光落在商店最里面的一个小盒子上。
常见搭配:
①fall behind 落后
例:He was ill for six weeks and fell behind with his schoolwork.
他病了6个星期,落下了学校功课。
②fall through 未发生;失败
例:We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale fell through.
我们给房子找了个买家,结果买卖没成。
相关俚语:fall foul of sb. 与……产生分歧
例:Things were going well for her till she fell foul of the director.
与主管产生分歧之前,她的工作进展得很顺利。
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