教學內容:Fact and fantasy
4. late, lately, latest, later與latter
(1)late指比預料的或正常的時間晚。 eg:
i was late for work again.我上班又遲到了。
(2)lately“近來”,常用于疑問句,否定句,或與only連用或用于as lately as中。肯定句中用recently。 eg:
have you seen her lately?你最近看到過她嗎?
(3)latest adj.“最近的”、“最新的” eg:
have you got the latest news about him?你有他最近的消息嗎?
(4)later“后來”,“較晚的時候”,也可和段時間連用,表示從過去或將來某一時間起,多長時間以后。 eg:
later the boy found his mother. 后來那個男孩找到了他媽媽。
(5)latter用來表示兩事物之間的順序,意為“后一個/后者”,與the former(前者)相對。 eg:
of these two men the former is dead, but the latter is still alive.
此二人中前者已死,但后者仍活著。
5. at the beginning與in the beginning
(1)at the beginning通常接of短語,表示“在……初”,“在……開始的時候”,它的反義短語是at the end of。 eg:
great changes took place at the beginning of the century.
在那個世紀初發生了巨大的變化。
(2)in the beginning表示“起初”,“開始的時候”,不與of介詞短語連用。但at the beginning偶爾也可單獨使用,在意思上與in the beginning區別不大。 eg:
in the beginning nobody took any notice of his words.
起初沒人理睬他的話。
6. finally, at last與in the end
(1)finally一般指一系列事物或論點按排列的最后一項內容,或用在動詞前,表示等了好久才……,沒有感情色彩。 eg:
finally, let’s do some exercises.最后我們來做一些練習吧。
(2)at last往往表示經過一番努力或曲折的過程之后的意思,常常有較濃的感情色彩。 eg:
at last, he got hold of the elephant’s tail. 他最后終于抓住了大象的尾巴。
(3)in the end可與finally和at last通用。 eg:
the war lasted four years before the north won in the end.這場戰爭持續了四年,最后北方取得了勝利。(但in the end可預卜未來。)
三、語言點講解
1. jules spent many hours in paris libraries studying geology, physics and many other subjects.儒勒在巴黎圖書館花費很長時間研究地質學,物理學和許多其他的學科。
spend“花費”,常用于下面的結構:
spend money/time on sth./(in) doing sth. 在某事/做某事方面花費錢/時間
eg: he does not spend much time on his homework.
他在做作業上花費不了多少時間。
注意區別spend與take。
take的用法是:it takes/took/will take sb. some time to do sth.“做某事花費某人多少時間” eg:
it took him two hours to finish the work. 完成這份工作花費了他兩個小時。
2. many of the instruments in his novels will remind the reader of dr benjamin franklin’s experiments with electricity. 他小說里所提到的許多設備會讓讀者想起本杰明•富蘭克林用電做的實驗。
remind提醒;使想起;可構成以下結構:
(1)remind sb. of sth./sb. 使某人想起某事/某人 eg: