Unit 19 The Merchant of Venice
一、重难点解析
1.It sometimes happens that some people are in a position where they can make an important decision about a person they hate.有时有这样的事情发生,人们处在某个位置,这个位置可使他们对所恨的人做出重大的决定。
where引导限制性定语从句,常用来修饰表示地点的名词,在本句中修饰a position。例如:
I know of a place where we can have fun. 我知道一个可以玩得很开心的地方。
Is there a shop around where we can buy some fruit? 附近有什么商店可以买到水果?
2.any more常用于含有否定意义的结构或疑问句中,表示"再也(不);(不)再"。例如:
He doesn’t come here any more. 他再也不到这儿来了。
Aren’t they making this model any more? 难道他们不再做这种模型了吗?
We promised not to quarrel any more. 我们答应再也不争吵了。
3.may / might as well do sth (as do sth else) 意思是"还是做某事好";"不如做某事"。例如:
We may as well have a try and see if it can be done. 我们还是试一试,看看能否办成。
There is nothing to do, so I may as well go to bed. 没什么事可做,我还是上床睡觉好了。
4.Please be seated. 请就座。
这是一个固定的用法,例如:
He then asked me to be seated. 然后他让我坐下。
He was seated at the piano, with his back to the audience. 他坐在钢琴前,背对着观众。
5.right和wrong可用作名词,例如:
Little children do not know right from wrong. 小孩不能分辨是非。
He has a perfect sense of right and wrong. 他有是非观念。
6.pay back的意思是"偿还";"报答";"报复"。例如:
Susan doesn’t know how to pay him back for his help. 苏珊得到他的帮助,不知如何回报。
I have paid him back for the trick he played on me. 他捉弄了我,我已回敬了他。
7.However, he agreed to lend Antonio the money on one condition. 不管怎么说,他答应借钱给安东尼奥,但有一个条件。
condition在此句中的意思是"提出的条件",类似的用法有:
He agree to these conditions. 他答应了这些条件。
I can let you have it on very favourable conditions. 我能让你在优惠条件下得到它。
8.He is young, but I never knew so young a body with so wise a head. 他很年轻,但是我过去从来不知道有这么年轻又如此聪明的人。
注意so用在so ... a(n) 结构中,起强调名词前的形容词的作用。例如:
I have never seen so beautiful a child. 我从来没见过这么漂亮的孩子。
He never wrote so good a book as his first one again. 他再也没有写出一本和他的处女作一样好的书。
9.at the mercy of 意思是"任......摆布";"在......前毫无办法";"由......掌握"。例如:
The match was at the mercy of the weather. 比赛要视天气而定。
I shouldn’t like to be at the mercy of such a cruel man. 我不想让这样残酷的人摆布我。
二、日常用语
1.Correct me if I’m wrong, but ...
2.You shouldn’t forget that ...
3.What shouldn’t be forgotten is ...
4.One of the most important facts is ...
5.You could, for example, ...
6.The way I would go about it ...
7.As far as I know ...
8.After all, ...
9.But in this particular case ...
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