重点词汇词组
1.at any rate 无论如何,不管怎样
例:Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
哼,无论如何我都不会步行回家
。相关俚语:
①at a rate of knots 很快地,迅速地
例:She got through her work at a rate of knots.
她很快做完了工作
。②at this rate 照此情形,如此下去
例:At this rate, we won't be home until midnight.
照这样下去,我们得半夜才能到家
。2.think ill of 把……往坏处想
例:Don't think ill of any one.
别把别人想得太坏
。常见搭配:
①speak ill of sb. 说(某人)的坏话
例:I realize one shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
我认识到不应该说死人的坏话
。②can ill afford (to do sth.) 经不起(做……);一旦……就会遇麻烦
例:We can ill afford to lose another member of staff.
我们可经不起再失去一位员工了
。3.in question 正被谈论的……,有关的
例:Add up all the income you've received over the period in question.
把相关时期内你获得的所有收入加起来
。相关俚语:
①be a question of doing sth. 有必要做……
例:It's just a question of working hard for a month and then you can relax.
那就只需努力工作1个月,然后你就可以休息了
。②be out of the question 不可能
例:A trip to New Zealand is out of the question this year.
今年去新西兰旅行是不可能的了
。4.in proportion to (与……) 成比例地
例:The chart shows how weight increases in proportion to height.
图表表明了体重是如何随身高成正比例上升的
。常见搭配:out of all proportion to (与……) 完全不成比例
例:The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.
惩罚和罪行完全不成比例
。相关俚语:blow sth. out of proportion 对(事情或问题)小题大做
例:Of course, when the papers get hold of a story, it's blown out of all proportion.
当然了,一旦报纸知道了一则传闻,就会大肆渲染一番
。长难句解析
He1 had found2 the law3 a most unprofitable study, and was4 now absolutely resolved5 on being ordained6, if I would present him to the living in question7 -- of which he trusted there could be little doubt8, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions9.
解:1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4系动词+5表语+6宾语+7条件状语从句+8定语从句+9原因状语从句
析:“of which he trusted there could be little doubt”是定语从句,关系代词which指代前面提到的“我荐举他去当牧师”这件事;“as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions”是原因状语从句,其中“that I had no other person to provide for”是宾语从句 。
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