新概念英语第三册Lesson24重点句子及解析

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新概念英语第三册Lesson24重点句子及解析

【课文】   We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called "a skeleton in the cupboard". At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. The reader’s hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a   dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.   It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction. To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very proud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories. I once spent an uncomfortable weekend which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was rarely used. He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner. After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard. I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified. A skeleton was dangling before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door make it sway slightly and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me. Dropping my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George. This was worse than‘a terrible secret; this was a real skeleton! But George was unsympathetic. ‘Oh, that,’he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend. ‘That’s Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.’   【课文翻译】   在小说中,我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家庭,却有着某种多年不为人所知的骇人听闻的秘密。英语中有一个生动的说法来形容这种情况。惊人的秘密称作 “柜中骷髅 ”。在小说的某个戏剧性时刻,可怕的秘密泄漏出来,接着便是某人的声誉扫地。当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公,那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的 5个丈夫时,不禁会毛骨悚然。   这种事发生在小说中是无可非议的。尽管我们人人都有各种大小秘密。连最亲密的朋友都不愿让他们知道,但我们当中极少有人有柜中骷髅。我所认识的的在柜中藏骷嵝的人便是乔治 .卡尔顿,他甚至引以为自豪。乔治年轻时学过医,然而,他后来没当上医生,却成了一位成功的侦探小说作家。有一次,我在他家里度周末,过得很不愉快。这事我永远不会忘记。乔治把我领进客房,说这间很少使用。他让我打开行装后下楼吃饭。我将衬衫、内衣放进两个空抽屉里,然后我想把随身带来的两套西服中的一套挂到大衣柜里去。我打开柜门,站在柜门前一下惊呆了。一具骷髅悬挂在眼前,由于柜门突然打开,它也随之轻微摇晃起来,让我觉得它好像马上要跳出柜门朝我扑过来似的。我扔下西服冲下楼去告诉乔治。这是比 “骇人听闻的秘密 ”更加惊人的东西,这是一具真正的骷髅啊!但乔治却无动于衷。 “噢,是它呀!他笑着说道,俨然在谈论一位老朋友。 “那是塞巴斯蒂安。你忘了我以前是学医的了。”   【生词和短语】   skeleton n. 骷髅   seemingly adv. 表面上地   respectable adj. 受人尊重的   conceal v. 隐藏   vivid adj. 生动的   dramatic adj. 扣人心弦的   ruin v. 毁坏(名誉等),使破产   heroine n. 女主人公   fiction n. 小说   varying adj. 不同的   medicine n. 医学   guestroom n. 客房   unpack v. 取出   stack v.(整齐地)堆放   underclothes n. 内衣   drawer n. 抽屉   petrify v. 使惊呆   dangle v. 悬挂   sway v. 摇摆   unsympathetic adj. 无动于衷的   medical adj. 医学的   【知识点】   词汇   【seemingly】   构词:seem→seeming→seemingly   例句:   1. The studies also show that many seemingly "purebred" ethnic groups have ancestry traceable to more than one continent.   研究也显示许多看来“纯种”的民族其祖先起源自不止一个大陆。   2. For a long time, scientists and curators have wondered how da Vinci created shadows on her face with seemingly no brush strokes or contours.   一直以来,科学家和管理人员都对达・芬奇阴影的描绘方法十分好奇,因为她脸上几乎没有笔法和轮廓线的痕迹。   【respectable】   构词:respect→respectable   例句:   1. To learn from afar about a key region and its people is a respectable pursuit.   远距离了解一个重要地区及其人民,是一种可敬的追求。   2. At twenty-one he took his degree-a respectable degree, but not a very high one.   二十一岁他获得了一个不很高,但也令人钦羡的学位。   【conceal】   英英:prevent from being seen or discovered   例句:   1. Players may conceal their assets from each other.   玩家应该隐瞒自己的资产金额。   2. He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.   他试图饰盖自己对这一想法本能的厌恶。   3. He hated her straightforwardly, making no effort to conceal it.   他十分坦率地恨她,从不设法加以掩饰。   【vivid】   例句:   1. Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.   想象有时候比现实更栩栩如生。   2. He sketched the situation in a few vivid words.   他用几句生动的语言简述了局势。   【dramatic】   构词:drama→dramatic   例句:   1. This year may bring more dramatic change.   今年这种变化可能更富戏剧性。   2. While a prism can make a dramatic rainbow, atmospheric refraction isn't that   strong.   棱柱可以产生漂亮的彩虹,但是大气的折射程度没那么厉害。   【ruin】   英英:destroy or cause to fail   例句:   1. Customers always find a way to ruin my day.   顾客总是有办法使我的一天玩完!   2. Odd behavior isn't the only way to ruin your chances of landing a job.   古怪的行为并不是破坏你得到一份工作机会的途径。   3. Many people ruin their summer fun by falling prey to the hazards of hot weather.   许多人深受炎热天气的折磨,白白浪费了本应充满欢乐的夏天。   【varying】   构词:vary→varying   例句:   1. Dimly, in varying degrees, these Venetians reveal an uneasiness, a vague discontent, an unexplained sense of something wrong.   隐约地以不同程度,这些威尼斯人及贝蛮人表现出一种不安、种模糊的不满、种无法解释的不对迳。   2. Parents may set up varying levels of reward and punishment depending on a child's physical and mental capacity to avoid hurting him and his ego.   家长可制定不同程度的奖惩规则,在惩罚上也要先考虑孩子的体力和精神上是否能承受,以免造成孩子身心上的伤害。   【petrify】   英英:cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned   例句:   1. The bird was petrified as the snake came near.   当蛇爬近时,鸟儿惊呆了。   2. Just the thought of making a speech petrifies me.   一想到要作讲演就把我吓坏了。   【dangle】   英英:hang freely   例句:   1. His great arms dangle loosely at his sides, the palms of his hands open.   他的一双粗大的胳膊软绵绵地垂在身子两旁,手张开着。   2. This is a hammock station. You can dangle to wait for the arrival of public   transportation.   吊床车站,你可以晃晃悠悠地等待公交的到来。   3. Squirrels can run wires, hop branches and dangle from swinging tree limbs without a second thought.   松鼠们能在金属丝上奔跑,能在树枝上跳跃,还能不加思索地在树上荡秋千。   【unsympathetic】   构词:sympathy→sympathetic→unsympathetic   例句:   1. British law is broadly unsympathetic to such notions.   英国法律通常不赞成这些主张。   2. He dismissed the event with a most unsympathetic shrug.   他无所谓地耸耸肩就把这件事情打发了。   搭配   【stand on end】   【to varying degrees】   【give the impression】   【once upon a time】

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