高级英语复习笔记及讲解

高级英语

高级英语复习笔记及讲解

发布时间：2004-9-26 发布地区：达德教育 信息来源：自考

高级英语复习笔记及讲解（共5讲）

Lesson One

Rock Superstars : What Do They Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society ?

1. Rock Superstars 摇滚乐超级明星

rock : rock music , rock ' n ' roll ( or : rock and roll )摇滚乐

早期的摇滚乐是源于美国的民歌( folk )爵士乐( jazz )勃鲁斯歌曲

(blues)等的一种音乐,其特征是具 有强烈的节奏 ( rhythm )单纯的旋律 ( melody )一再重复的歌词和音符的后拍音 ( after beat )

2. Rock is the music of teenage rebellion .摇滚乐是青少年的反叛音乐

a. teenage adj. pertaining to a teenager ( 13 至 19 岁的 ) 青少年的.

其名词形式为teenager: (13至19岁的青少年).

b. rebellion : resistance to or defiance of any authority 造反,反派.

如; a rebellion against old traditions 对旧传统的反叛.

3. By a man ' s heroes ye shall know him . 你将从一个人崇拜的英

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雄得知其人.

a.这句句子的句型与英语中常说的 judge a man by the company he keeps(以一个人所交的朋友断定其为人)很相似.

b. ye = you 用于古英语或诗歌中,是第二人称代词thou的复数.

如: Ye are the salt of the earth .你们是社会的中坚. (出自<<圣经>>)

4. '' Midnight Rambler '' :

ramble : walk for pleasure漫游,既可表动词,也可作名词.

如; They rambled through the woods.他们在林中漫步.

5. ... he said , '' grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform , sprinkling its contents over the first rows of sweltering listeners ... ''

a. grab : to seize suddenly , eagerly , or roughly ; snstch 急抓,夺取.

如: He jumped up from the table , grabbed his hat and ran out of the door .

他从桌子旁跳了起来,抓起自己的帽子,奔出门去.

另外,grab后面可以跟其他名词或名词短语.

如:

grab a shower快速冲了澡,

grab a sandwich,胡乱吃了一个三明治,

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grab a taxi 赶搭出租车.

有时,还可以作不及物动词.

如:

He grabbed at the opportunity of going abroad . 他设法抓住这次出国的机会 b. sprinkle : to scatter drops or particles of water , powder or the like on 洒液体,撒粉末等(于......上).

如:

They sprinkled ashes on the icy sidewalk .他们在积水溜滑的人行道上撒了灰.

We sprinkle the lawn every day .我们每天给草坪洒水.

以'' sprinkling ''引导的短语是动词的 '' - ing '' 形式作伴随状语.

再如: They stood there , watching the basketball .他们站在那里,观看篮球比赛.

6. They surge to follow him , eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops .

a. surge : to move or swell forward in or like waves 如波涛汹涌而至.

A crowd surged out of the theater .观众从剧院里蜂拥而出.

b. 以形容词'' eager ''引导的不定式词组在语法功能上起着并列分句的作用.

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7. Some 14,000 screaming fans were cruching up to the front of the stage at Capital Center , ...

a. some : ( before a number ) approximately , about (在数字前)大约.

如: some twenty students大约20个学生.

b. scream to make a loud , sharp cry 尖声大叫.

'' screaming ''是动词 scream的 '' - ing ''形式作前置修饰语, '' screaming fans '' 意为"尖声大叫的歌迷"

c. crunch : to proceed with a crushing noise嘎吱嘎吱地往前.

如: The children crunched through the snow .孩子们嘎吱嘎吱地踩着雪走.

8. I ought to be crawling on my knees .

a. crawled : to move with the face downward and the boye close to the ground爬行.

如;

The bus crawled along .公共汽车缓慢地行进.

注意:短语 crawl into the favor of one's superiors表示"卑躬屈膝地讨好上司".

b. on one's knees : 双膝跪地.

9. How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship ?

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a. feel about : consider , think of 觉得,感到.经常用于疑问句中,

如: How do you feel about the suggestion ?你认为这个建议怎么样?

b. adulation 是adulate的名词形式.

adulate : flatter or admire excessively过分赞赏,奉承,恭维.

如:

One can hardly understand why young people so adulate film stars.

年轻人为什么如此过分赞赏影星,真让人费解.

10. Or are you drawn somehow to this strange clown , perhaps because he acts out your wildest fantasies ?

a. draw : atteact 吸引.

如:

Some mutual interests draw us together .一些共同的兴趣把我们吸引到一块了.

b. somehow : in some way not specified or known 不知什么缘故.

如:

Somehow I don't like this novel though it is so popular .

这本小说虽然很流行,但不知什么原因我却不喜欢它.

c. fantasy : imagination , esp. when it is let free and not held back(自由奔放的)想象,幻想,狂想.

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wildest fantasies ,最为狂妄的奇想.

11. These aren't idle questions .

idle : of no real worth or purpose 无聊的.

如:

idle rumor无聊的谎言.

12. Horwitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum , a place where ideas clash and crash .

a. see ... as ... : consider ... as ...把......看作......

b. forum : a meeting place of discussion of matters of public interest论坛.

c. a place 是a sort of debating forum的同位语,后面由 where引导的句子是定语从句,修饰 a place.

'' ideas chash and crash ''意为"各种思想冲撞".

13. '' The redefinition , '' Horowitz says '' is a task uniquely performed by the young...''

'' uniquely performed by the young '' 是过去分词短语,用于修饰前面的''a task''.

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