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Lesson 34
A happy
discovery
幸运的发现
I. Vocabulary
1. fascination
n.
the power of fascinating
迷惑力，魅力
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Have
fascination for sb
+ for/over/on
Cats have
unfalling
fascination
for
most people.
猫对人总是有种永不衰败的魅力。
--Chinese Art has great fascination for
me.
中国艺术对我有一种极强的魅力。
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fascinate:
attract or interest very
strongly
;(
多用被动
)
使人着迷
--Cats never fail to fascinate human
being.
猫总是能够引起人的极大兴趣。
--English never
fail to fascinate students.
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be Fascinated by/with sth :
--He is fascinated with chess.
他迷上了象棋。
--The students were fascinated by his
idea.
学生对他的想法非常感兴趣。
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Charm :
迷住，使
……
陶醉
,
语气比<
/p>
fascinate
弱
The beautiful picture charms me / I am
charmed by the beautiful picture.
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Captivate: [
迷惑
]
；使
…
着迷
=fascinate
；
His idea captivated me.
他的想法迷惑了我
(
不用
fascinate)
。
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Enchant:
使
…
迷或
<
/p>
使
…
心醉，使
…
喜悦
(
强调使用魔法迷迷惑
)be enchanted by/be enchanted with
She was enchanted by the flower you
sent her.
看到你送她的鲜花她心醉了。
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Fas
cinate/charm/captivate/enchant
后直接加
ing,
变成形容词
She is a
charming girl.
-Cats are
fascinating animals. --The flowers are enchanting.
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winning (
物品
)
吸引人的
The beautiful dresses is winning.
2. forbidding adj
望而生威的
having an
unfriendly or danger looker frightening.
--He has got a forbidding appearance.
他有一张很严峻的面孔。
The secretary always wears a forbidding
look.
这秘书总是一副拒人千里之外的样子。
--
We’d better
n
ot visit the forbidding
coast.
我们还是不要去那险峻的海滩了
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Forbid:forbid sb to do sth
The father forbid his
children to touch the clavichord.
Forbid doing
sth
—
Smoking is forbidden
here.
the Forbidden City
–
Forbidden fruit
–
Forbidden zone
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Forbid:
政府或私人下令以禁止
Swimming is forbidden here.
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Prohibit:
（
< br>formal
）法律条文或官方明令禁止
The law prohibits young people under 18
from going to bar.
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Interdict:
（
formal
）法律或教会所不允许
3. muster
v.
鼓起
muster up/collect
up/summon up=gather/pluck up/keep
up
鼓起勇气
--He
mustered up his courage and walked up to the
girl.
他鼓起了勇气来到那女孩面前
The team is trying to muster up all the
support they can get to win the game.
4. pretentious adj.
自命不凡的
(
贬义词
)
We
don
’
t like to visit the
pretentious
shop.
我们不愿意去哪自命不凡的商店。
Pretend
pretension
要求，虚荣，虚荣心
5.
assorted adj. various types mixed together
格式各样的
强调种类数目不同而且混杂在一起
assorted
chocolates
什锦巧克力
He
bought a bag of assorted fruits.
他买了一袋各种不同种类混杂在一起的水果。
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different:
强调此事物与彼事物完全不同：
--The word
glare is different from that word slare.
--We have got various
books.
我们有各种各样的书籍。
--in every part/all parts/various parts
of the world
世界各地
.
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Various: all kinds of
强调种类不同
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Diverse
强调性质不同
--We have
got diverse opinion.
我们的见解截然相反。
6.
junk
ul things
(
不可数
)
废品
rubbish/garbage/trash/junk
垃圾
Humburges are junk because they lack
nutrition.
汉堡是垃圾食品，因为它缺乏营养
.
7.
dealer
n.
商人
=businessman /trader/merchant
商家，大商人
/tradesman
dea
ler
侧重于零售商，相当于
tradesman
Peddler
小贩
8.
Cherish
v.
期望
entertain or keep hope, love etc. in
mind deeply
怀有，持有，期望
--She cherishes
the hope that her son will return.
–
-
Don’t cherish
such illusion.
不要抱有这样的幻想
Don’t cherish the illusion that your
father will always pay your debts.
不要抱有的
幻想父亲总是为你
还债的
9.
Ample
Adj
enough or more than is necessary
充足而有余的
Amply
?
Enough
数量，程度足够
The bread is
just enough for one meal.
--He is old enough to go to
the party.
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Sufficient(
与
enough
最接近
)
只放在名词前
enough
可前可后
?
--We have sufficient food
to last one week.
--We have
enough food/food enough to last one week.
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Sufficiently
只放在被修饰的词前
enough
放在被修饰的词之后
old
enough/sufficiently old
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Adequate
数量和质量上的满足
The
performance is adequate.
节目还可以
(
突出质量
)
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Don’t be
worr
ied. They have gotten ample time.
Whatever you do, you must put your hear
into it. And then, someday you will be rewarded
amply
.
无论你做什么，都要用心去做，将来有一天，你会得到大量的回报。
Carve v.
镌刻
Dagger n.
短剑
Miniature
adj.
小巧的
Composition
n.
构图
TEXT
What was the happy
discovery?
The
author
’
s friend Frank
discovered
a miniature
Painting
by
Italian painter
Correggio worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
But before the text tells
us about the happy discovery made by Frank, it
first introduces the
antique shops.
According to the
author
，
there are two
different kinds of antique shops, one being
very expensive and they usually look
very
forbidding.
看来非常高级却令人望而却步。
The
other
kind is the less pretentious ones
where rarities might be found. Then the author
tells us what is
needed for an antique
hunter --- Patience and knowledge (
寻找古玩
应具备的素质
—
耐心和知识
)
are necessary. And Frank happened to
possess both qualities and he made his happy
discovery in
the latter kind of antique
shop.
1. exert:
means have, but exert is stronger and
more active than have
Advertising exerts a subtle influence
on us.
施加影响
1.
peculiar
：
means
strange
奇怪的
, but here it is
closer to unique
独有的，特有的
He deals with things in his own
peculiar way.
他以它独有的方式处理事情。
3
．
Fascination:
attraction, charm, but it emphasizes that it has
stronger charm .
表达的更为强烈
Tibet holds a great fascination for
tourists.
西藏对游客具有非凡的魅力。
Paraphrase
：
Antique shops appeal to a great many
people.
Shoe shops exert a
peculiar fascination on a great many
ladies.
鞋店对于很多女士来说具有特殊的魅力
4. keep sb / sth free from
:
without
…
< br>使
…
免受
/
摆脱
You
can
’
t keep yourselves free
from anxieties like tramps.
We put our books in a bookcase to keep
them free from dust.
We
need a room free from noise.
我们需要一间没有噪音的房间。
5.
forbidding:
frightening or unfriendly <
/p>
用动词
ing
形式来拟人化的形容地点，
除了
forbidding
外还有
inviting
一词
which
means friending
。
The secretary always wears a forbidding
look.
这秘书总是一副拒人千里之外的样子。
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