必修3unit1重点词汇讲解

一、Take place

发生，举行，进行

When will the basketball game take place?篮球赛何时举行?

The Olympic Games take place every four years.奥林匹克运动会每四年举行一次。

【拓展】：take one’s place代替某人；就座

take the place of... 代替……

In place of=instead of代替...

We will go by bus instead of /in place of on foot我们坐车去，而不是步行。

Nowadays plastics have taken the place of many materials．

现在塑料已代替了许多材料。

易混词（组）解析一言辨意

take place “发生，举行”指经正式安排

的事

When the

earthquake

occurred

/happened ,

many people

happened to be

out.After the

happen ①偶然“发生”，常带有未能预见的意思，是不及物动词，固定用法：sth.happen(s) to sb.

②“碰巧”：

happen to do sth.碰巧做某事

happen to be doing sth.碰巧在做某事

happen to have done sth.碰巧干过某事

It happens that... 碰巧

earthquake an

emergency

rescue took place.Fortunately ,n fire broke out during the

earthquake. 地震发生的时候，碰巧很多人不在家。地震过后一场紧急救援开始了。幸运的是，地震没有引起火灾发生。

occur “发生””想起”sth. occurs to sb.=It occurs to sb. that某人突然想起某事

break out 指战争、火灾、疾病等的“突

然爆发”

二、Celebrate

V.庆祝（仪式、庆典等）；（以文章、演说等）颂扬，赞美，歌颂

We celebrated New Year with a party.我们举行聚会庆祝新年。

It is a poem that celebrates the joy of friendship.这是一首赞颂友谊之欢乐的诗歌。

celebrate a victory／success庆祝胜利／成功

Their courage was celebrated in all the newspapers．

所有的报纸都颂扬了他们的勇气。

拓展：celebration n.庆祝，庆典

in celebration of为了庆祝……

have / hold a celebration举行庆祝会／庆典

celebrated(＝famous) adj. 著名的，驰名的

The party w as in celebration of my parents’ silver wedding．聚会是为庆祝我父母的银婚。

易混词用法一言辨意

celebrate Celebrate sth. 庆

祝某事

后主要接：仪式，

典礼，生日等，指

令人高兴的事情

或日子

To congratulate

Jane on having

passed the

examination ,we

held a party to

celebrate it.

我们举行了一个

聚会来祝贺简通

过了考试。congratulate Congratulate sb.

On sth./doing sth

祝贺某人某事/祝

贺某人做某事

三、Starve

Vt.&Vi. (是)饿死，饿得要死

starve to death饿死

be starved to death饿死

starve to do sth.渴望做某事

starve for sth.=be starved for/of 渴望获得，迫切需要，

缺乏

I’d rather starve than steal.我宁可饿死也不偷窃。

Millions of people starved to death during the war.战争中，数以百万的人饿死了。

I have been starving to see you.=I’m eager to see you.

我一直很想与你见面。

The patient’s brain was starved for oxygen.病人的大脑缺氧。

四、In memory of

纪念，追念

She set up a charitable fund(基金) in memory of her father. 她设立了一项慈善基金以纪念他的父亲。

She wrote a poem in memory of those who died in the earthquake.

她写了一首诗以纪念那些在地震中死去的人们。

Have a good/bad memory for sth. 对某事记忆力好/坏。bring back memories引起对往事的回忆。

Not everyone has a good memory for English words.

并非所有人都善于记英语单词。

Those old songs bring back memories.那些老歌使人想起往事。