高级英语第一册Unit 1 (文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+(4)

(infml) to sell sth. at less than its cost or value

I need the money and I have to sacrifice (on the price of) my car.

48. regard: regard, respect, esteem, admire and their corresponding nouns are comparable when they mean a feeling for sb. or sth.

Regard is the most colourless as well as the most formal. It usu. requires a modifier to reinforce its meaning

I hold her in high / low / the greatest regard.

to have a high / low regard for sb's opinion.

Steve was not highly regarded in his hometown.

It is proper to use respect from junior to senior or inferior to superior. It also implies a considered and carefulevaluation or estimation. Sometimes it suggests recognition of sth. as sacred. He respected their views even though he could not agree with them.

to have respect for one's privacy, rights...

Esteem implies greater warmth of feeling accompanying a high valuation.

Einstein's theory of relativity won for his universal esteem.

Admiration and Admire, like esteem, imply a recognition of superiority, but they usually connote more enthusiastic appreciation, and sometimes suggest genuine affection. Sometimes the words stress the personal attractiveness of the object of admiration, and weaken the implication of esteem.

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I have long felt the deepest esteem for you, and your present courageous attitude has added admiration to esteem.

regard:

to regard sb's wishes / advice / what... (but not sb.)

respect:

to respect sb.

to respect sb.'s courage / opinion /

esteem:

to esteem sb.

to esteem sb. for his honesty / courage

admire:

to admire sb.

to admire the flowers / sb.' poem

49. the customer coming and going at intervals.

A customer buys things from a shop; a client get services from a lawyer, a bank or a hairdresser; One who get medical services is a patient and a guest is served in a hotel.

at intervals: happening regularly after equal periods of time

Trains leave at short intervals.

The trees were planted beside the road at 50-meters intervals.

50. picturesque: charming or interesting enough to be made into a picture, striking, vivid

51. -smith: a worker in metal, a maker

copper- / gold- / tin- / black- / gun-smith

52. clash: a noisy, usu. metallic sound of collision

swords clash

The dustbins clashed as the men emptied them.

bang: to hit violently, to make a loud noise

The door banged open / shut.

He banged the window shut.

53. impinge on (upon): to strike or dash esp. with a sharp collision

I heard the rain impinge upon the earth.

The strong light impinge on his eyes.

The noise of the aeroplane overhead impinged on our ears.

to have effect on

The need to see that justice is done impinges on every decision made in the courts.

54. distinct: clearly seen, heard, understood, etc. plane, noticeable, and distinguishable to the eye or ear or mind

Anything clearly noticed is distinct

There is a distinct smell of beer in this room.

A thing or quality that is clearly different from others of its kind is distinctive or distinct from

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Beer has a very distinctive smell. It is quite distinct from the smell of wine.

55. round:

Please round your lips to say "oo".

Stones rounded by the action of water are called cobbles.

The ship rounded the cape / the tip of the peninsula.

56. burnish: to polish, esp. metal, usu. with sth. hard and smooth, polish by friction, make smooth and shiny

57. brazier: open metal framework like a basket, usu. on leg, for holding a charcoal or coal fire (see picture in ALD)

58. youth: often derog. a young person, esp. a young male a group of youths

the friends of my youth

collective noun: the youth (young men and women) of the nation

59. incredible: This word comes from credit, which means belief, trust, and faith

credit card

We place full credit in the government's ability.

We gave credit to his story.

credible: deserving or worthy of belief, trustworthy

Is the witness's story credible?

After this latest affair he hardly seems credible as a politician.

incredible: too strange to be believed, unbelievable

60. hammer away at:

away: continuously, constantly

So little Hans worked away in his garden.

He was laughing (grumbling) away all afternoon.

61. vessel:

a. usu. round container, such as a glass, pot, bottle, bucket or barrel, used for holding liquids

b. (fml) a ship or large boat

c. a tube that carries blood or other liquid through the body, or plant juice through a plant: blood vessel

62. bellows: an instrument for blowing air into a fire to make it burn quickly

63. the red of the live...

The light of the burning coal becomes alternately bright and dim (by turns, one follows the other) as the coal burns and dies down, burns again, along with the repeated movements of the bellows.

64. glow: send out brightness or warmth, heat or light without flame or smoke

When you draws a deep mouthful, the cigarette tip glows.

65. rhythmically: happening at regular periods of time, alternately; by turns

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66. stroke: single movement, which is repeated (esp. in a sport or game)

She can't swim but has made a few strokes with her arms.

67. engrave: to cut (words, pictures, etc.) on wood, stone, or metal

The terrible memory was engraved on his mind.

cf.: carve: to cut (usu. wood or stone) in order to make a special shape

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