grammar week 5——广外高翻本科大三高级英语ppt

Grammar and Vocabulary Week 4

Focus:

✧Vocabulary:

Word formation exercises

✧English grammar

a.Historical present

b.Negation

Word formation exercises

40) hydrogen, oxygen, degenerative disorder, generator, gene

-gen (produce; generate)

41)pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, diagonal

-gon (angle)

42)contradict, contra-injection, contra-rotating, antibiotics, anticorrosion

contra- / anti- (against)

43)intracellular, intracity, intra-atomic, introspect

intra- / intro (inward)

44)transmitted signals, green gas emissions, hospital admission, missile

-mit-; -mis- (send)

Transmettre

Mettre mis

45)telecast, teleconference, telescopic,

tele- (far; distant)

46)posterior, postglacial, postmeridian, post-mortem, postscript

post- (after)

47)aerobatics, aerophotography, areomedical, aerodynamics

aero- (air; aviation)

48)synchronizer, symbion, symphonic, asymmetry, synthesizer

syn-/sym- (together)

Symbionese Liberation Army

49)euphemism, eulogy, euphoria, euthanasia, eugenics

eu- (good; benign) mercy killing

50)carnivore, herbivore, carnivorous, herbivorous, anthropophagic, xylophagous insects

-vore; -vorous; -phagic; -phagous (eat; feed on)

Felines

Canine

Cannibal

Diminutive suffixes

A somewhat smaller or less important version of something

-ette: kitchenette,cigarette, novelette中篇小说, diskette essayette短散文, roomette小房间；卧车小包房, brunette浅黑肤色的女人, bachelorette未婚女子, towelette湿餐巾纸；

小毛巾，statuette；

-kin: manikin侏儒；时装模特, cannikin小杯；小罐，lambkin；

Origin of the word Yankee: Jan—Jankee—Yankee—Dutch people living in New Amsterdam (Present-day New Y ork)—Americans living in the north—Americans as a whole.

-ling: ducking, seedling秧苗，幼苗, siblings, princeling；

-let: piglet, booklet, islet, leaflet;

-y: piggy, kitty, maidy, puppy,

-ish：brownish, reddish, blackish, sevenish

Other Diminutive forms：clipped forms (as Jim, Tim, Tom, Sam) ；altered forms (as Peggy, Bill, Bob

*How about Chinese diminutives?

1.说出以下词语的汉语意义

1) a classic performance classical music, classical Chinese

2) a comic masterpiece comical behavior

3)an economic miracle economical arrangement

4) a historic site historical figure

5)an electric motor electrical appliance

1) a classic performance经典的/一流的演出

classical music, classical Chinese 古典

2) a comic masterpiece 喜剧名作

comical behavior 滑稽的行为

3)an economic miracle 经济奇迹

economical arrangement节约的安排

4)a historic site 历史遗迹（有历史意义的；历史上著名的）

historical figure 历史人物（历史的；史学的；基于史实的）

5)an electric motor 电动机（电的；电动的）

6)electrical appliance电器；电气器具（电气设备有关电的；电气科学的）

electric current; electrical current

2.Put the following into Chinese

1)He was the oldest and lorded it over the rest of us

2)She used to queen it over the girls.

3)He kings it over his colleagues.

4)He then clerked it in a drugstore.

5)You’ll cop it if mother catches you in the kitchen again.

挨骂；受罚

6)Sometimes a boxer dogs it.