Unit 12   Period  4  Language points in reading

②by all means可以，當然行，沒問題

‘do you mind if i have a look?’ ‘by all means.’借我看一眼行嗎？當然可以。

③by means of sth (formal) 借助…手段，依靠…方法

the load was lifted by means of a crane. 重物是用起重機吊起來的。

④by no means 絕不，一點也不

she is by no means an inexperienced teacher. 她絕不是一個毫無經驗的老師。

we haven’t won yet, not by any means. 我們離成功還遠著呢。

by no means are these cases exceptional. 這些例子絕不是例外。

14.china’s large population meant that the school had to expand to take in many more students. ________________________________-

  take sb. in收留，留宿e.g.he was homeless,so we took him in.

  take sb. in欺騙，蒙騙   she took me in completely with her story.

她的一番花言巧語完全把我騙了。

  take sth. in吸入，吞入，改小，包含  the tour takes in six european capitals.

14.result in lare class sizes結果造成班級人數很多

  result in(=cause)導致，造成

  result from由…產生，是…的后果

his illness resulted from eating contaminated food. 他生病是由于吃了不干凈的食物。

e.g.this method,_______in areas near shanghai,_________in a market rise in total production.

 a.trying,resulting  b.tired,resulted  c.trying,resulted  d.tried,resulting

15.in north and central australia the population is so spread out that …

spread out 分散,伸展身體，攤開東西

1)there’s more room to spread out in first class. 頭等艙寬敞些，伸得開腿。

2)do you have to spread yourself out all over the sofa？

你就非得躺下，把整個大沙發全占了才行嗎？
3)the searchers spread out to cover the area faster. 搜索人員分散開來,好更快搜索這一地區。

16.australia uses “distance settlements can be as far as

as far as the eye can / could see 極目所盡

the bleak moorland stretched on all sides as far as the eye could see.

荒涼的曠野向四面伸展開去，一望無際。

as far as i know |/as far as i can re member/see/ tell, etc. 就我所知道/據我所記得的/依我看。

as far as we knew, there was no cause for concern. 就我們所知，沒什么可擔心的。

as far as i can see, you’ve done nothing wrong. 依我看，你沒有做錯任何事。

she lived in chicago, as far as i can remember. 據我所記得的，她過去住在chicago。

as / so far as sb/sth is concerned  |就…而言

as far as i am concerned, you can do what you like.就我而言，你想干什么就干什么。

17. available 可獲得的，可找到的，有空的

tickets are available free of charge from the school. 學校有免費票。

when will the information be made available? 何時才能了解到情況？

further information is available on request. 詳情備索。

this was the only room available. 這是唯一可用的房間。