新概念英语第三册逐句精讲第5课 The facts

新概念英语第三册逐句精讲

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The facts

Lesson5 The facts

确切数字

新概念

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课 文内容：

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to

provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year

a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an

article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the

article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse

to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high

wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent

the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of

steps and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important

facts, but he took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was

getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent

the

、

journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet

another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he

would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor

reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.

A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.

Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to

prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in

which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while

counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which

surrounded the president's palace.

新概念英语

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逐句精讲：

1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to

provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.

报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一 些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极

端。

语言点

1 :

句子结构分析

:of newspapers and ma gazines

为介词短语，作

editors

的定语。

To provide their readers with unimportant facts and

statisics

< br>为不定式短语，作状语。

语言点

2:

重要写作短语总结

:

描述做某事的状态

Go to extermes to do sth.

做某事走极端

Carry sth. To extremes

做某事很过分

Take a lot of risks doing sth.

冒险做某事

2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known

magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new

African republic.

去年一位记者受一家有名的杂志委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成 立共和国总

统府的文章。

语言点

1:well-known< /p>

为复合形容词，修饰

magazine

。

语言点

2:instruct sb. to do sth.

表示“指示

/

吩咐某人做某事”，句中

用的是这一短语的被动语态形式。

3. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence

and then refuse to publish it.

稿子寄来后，编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表。

语言点

1 :

句子结构分析

:when

引导时间状 语从句，说明编辑接到文稿后的

反应。

And

< br>并列连接读稿和拒绝发表两件事情。

It

指代

。

语言点

2:

间接否定的说法总结

:

Refuse to do sth.=do not want to do sth,

Fail to do sth,=do not do sth.

Object to doing sth.=do not agree to do sth.

4. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall

which surrounds the president's palace'.

文章的开头是这样的

:

“几百级台阶通向总统府的高墙。”

语言点

1:

句子结构分析

:

这是一个直接引语的句式，用数字作主语非常大

气的描述了总统府的庞大规模。

Which

引导定语从句，修饰

wall,

强调是怎样的

高墙。

语言点

2:hundreds of

表示“成百上千的”。

下面是与数字有关的表达总结

:

Tens of

几十

Dozens of

几十

Thousands of

成千上万的

Tens of thousands of

数十万的

Millions of

数百万的

Tens of millions of

数千万的

Hundreds of millions of

数亿的

Billions of

数十亿的

例句支持

:

Hundreds of millions of people are living in harmful environment

in the world.

全世界有数亿人仍然生活在有害的环境当中。

5. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him

find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的

高度。

语言点

1:

句子结构分析

: instructing him find out

…

为现在分词短

语，作目的状语。

And

并列连接台阶数量和围墙高度。

语言点

2:at once

表示“立刻，立即”。

6. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important