重点词汇词组

1.in support of 支持；拥护

A majority voted in support of the bill.

大多数人投票支持这项法案y8-ST=;5SqLMjLo。

【常见搭配】

①support for sb/sth 支持某人/某事

There was little support for the proposal among the Board members present.

出席会议的董事会成员中几乎没有人支持这项提案o,G=0H~_rVzfypS*xN。

②gain support 获得支持

Environmental groups are fast gaining support among young people.

环保组织正迅速获得年轻人的支持7IDbg#X@3o7&M6s。

2.threaten to do 威胁要做某事

They threatened to kill him unless he did as they asked.

他们威胁要杀了他，除非他照他们说的做f)p8g1Gwz&5mjR@。

【常见搭配】

threaten sb with ... 用……威胁某人

They threatened the shopkeeper with a gun.

他们用枪威胁店主glBw6ef8Cm-6s。

3.denounce 谴责，痛斥

The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.

政府的经济政策受到了各方的谴责NHc_Os_bZr;#O。

【常见搭配】

denounce sb/sth as ... 谴责某人/某事为……

The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate.

4.pledge to do 承诺做某事

Both sides have pledged to end the fighting.

双方都承诺结束战斗BwHRS,5Xck^O。

【常见搭配】

pledge (some money) to/for sth 承诺给予某人/某事多少钱

EU leaders pledged $1.2 billion to the region over the next 18 months.

欧盟领导人承诺在未来18个月向该地区提供12亿美元ZT(3nvef1H9bmA0。

5.famine 饥荒

Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.

再一次粮食歉收可能会导致大范围的饥荒5qHB(f0&j*。

【同根词】famished 极饥饿的

Have some dinner with us -- you must be famished!

和我们一起吃点晚饭吧——你一定饿坏了！

长难句解析

Some demonstrators denounced the U.S. government, which is among the foreign powers that have called for a cease-fire as a yearlong war that has killed thousands of people intensified amid advances last weekend.

解：主谓宾+定语从句（含另一定语从句）+状语从句（含定语从句+状语）

析：“which is among the foreign powers that have called for a cease-fire”是非限定性定语从句，对前面的“the U.S. government”进行补充说明，其中包含一that引导的定语从句，修饰“the foreign powers”，that在该从句中充当主语成分，不可省略；“as a yearlong war ... last weekend”是as引导的原因状语从句，表明外国势力呼吁停火的原因，该从句中包含一定语从句“that has killed thousands of people”，修饰从句的主语“a yearlong war”；“amid advances last weekend”是介词短语作状语DSN1yn(AKkO~lc(wyoGE。

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