文档介绍：Unit 5
Overcoming Obstacles
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Do you know these proverbs?
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
有志者事竟成。
Rth an elegance and grace on the stage that fascinated all the audience.
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(pl.) 风度，魅力
情人眼里出西施。
Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.
cf.
grape - 葡萄; grave – 坟墓; grade – 等级
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复合形容词/合成形容词
由两个独立的单词组合或由一个词组或句子构成
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ten-minute, three-year-old, easy-going, strong-minded(意志坚强的), headstrong(固执的)
He wore an if-you-would-only-be-guided-by-me expression.
他显露出一种“要是你听我的话该多”好的表情。
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4. Mere: a. nothing more than 仅仅，只不过
Examples:
It’s a mere 200 meters from my house to the college.
How can you expect her to work out such a complicated math problem? She is a mere child.
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5. Fantasy: imagination, esp. when it has no connection at all with reality 幻想
Examples:
I still have the fantasy that one day I will win the National Lottery.
Having watched so many animated cartoon, some children can’t tell fantasy from reality.
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Main Idea of Part One
Michael faced the most challenging competition in his pole-vaulting career.
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Language Study Part Two
6. Numerous: very many 许多的，无数的
Examples:
During the Depression, numerous people wandered from town to town looking for work.
Numerous scholars before Copernicus had suggested that the earth went around the sun, but he was the first person to bear it out mathematically.
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7. Passion: strong feeling, esp. of love 热情
Examples:
He loved her still, with the same passion as he always had.
She had never before loved anyone with such passion.
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have a passion for: have a strong interest in sth. and like it very much
She had a passion for dancing which interfered with her schoolwork.
Exercise: P158 4)
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8. Detail:
1) small, particular fact or item 细节
Examples:
No details of the negotiation between the two countries have been revealed.
I can still recall every detail of my Graduation Day.
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