Unit 2 King Lear

bill is quite equal to running the office.比爾能勝任辦公室的管理工作。
mary is quite equal to bill in brains.瑪莉和比爾在智力上不相上下。
i don’t feel equal to a cup of wine now.我現在不能喝酒了。
19. you and your husband albany shall have this part of my kingdom with all its rivers and forests and mountains.
你和你的丈夫奧爾巴尼將得到我王國里這一部分及其河流、森林和山脈。
該句中謂語部分的shall事情態助動詞，既表示“將來”又表示“承諾、應允”；作為情態動詞shall用在陳述句中還可以表示“警告、命令、決心、強制”等，適應各人稱。比如：
then you shall come.(命令)　那么你（必須）要來。
just a little patience. you shall get the answer this very afternoon.(承諾、應允)　稍微耐心一點，你在今天下午可以拿到答案。
you naughty boy! you shall get what you deserve.(警告)　你這調皮的孩子，等著我收拾你吧。
nothing shall stop us from going there immediately.(決心)什么也阻擋不了我們立即去那里。
tom shan’t go this time.(強制)這次湯姆不能去。
20. i would rather lose my life than see you make such a mistake.
我寧死都不愿看到你犯這樣的錯誤。
 1) rather… than…結構中，than前后的動詞都用原形動詞。比如：
i would (或had) rather play tennis than swim.我寧愿打網球，不愿去游泳。
 2) rather than 結構中，該短語前后的詞語性質上要“對稱”。比如：
he ran rather than walked.與其說他走還不如說他跑。
i, rather than you, should do the job.該做這件工作的是我，而不是你。
it was what he meant rather than what he said.這是他的用意而不是他說的話。
these shoes are comfortable rather than pretty.這些鞋子穿起來舒服而不好看。
請注意下一句中的動詞形式：
rather than cause trouble, he left.不愿引起麻煩，他走了。
 3) 短語would rather后面如果接從句，從句的謂語用虛擬語氣。比如：
i would rather you had known it.我倒寧愿你知道了這件事。
i’d rather you did this experiment now.我倒希望你現在就做這個實驗。
21. although married with two children, shakespeare left stratford-on-avon at the age of about 30 and went to london alone.
盡管結婚后養了兩個孩子，莎士比亞30歲時還是離開了埃文河畔斯特拉特福鎮，只身去了倫敦。
這是省略的主從復合句。含有一個although引導的although he had been married with two children讓步狀語從句。短語 with two children等于說：and had two children。
真題：mr. hall understands that _____ math has always been easy for him, it is not easy for the students. (北京)
a. unless   b. since   c. although   d. when
解析：這是復雜的主從復合句，although在賓語從句中引導讓步狀語。故選c。
even though he wrote his plays almost 500 years ago, his plays are still relevant today. 他的戲劇盡管是在幾乎500年前寫的，可今天仍然適合我們。