英语专业精读课本 Unit 10 Book 3 笔记

Unit 10

I．Writing Skills

The text is short but forceful, written in the form of a fable. A fable is usually an imaginary short story, meant to teach

a moral. The writer uses a story of her own invention in an effort to warn people of the dangers of pollution.

①The content of the text is organized in a pattern of comparison and contrast.

②The writer uses writing techniques as parallelism, inversion, complicated sentence structures, carefully selected punctuation marks and a rhetorical question.

③The writer successfully repeats a key idea in different words.

II. Language Points

1. in the heart of: in the central part/ centre of

e.g. They are now in the ~ of the forest.

Let’s get to the ~ of the matter /the subject.

cf: in the midst of: in the middle of, among

2. harmony

①harmony (n.) [u]: agreement (of feeling, interests, opinions, etc)

e.g. The ~ of sea and sky makes a beautiful picture.

There was perfect ~ between the two brothers.

par. The agreement of colors will make us comfortable.

There is no agreement between two selfish men.

in harmony: peacefully, in agreement

e.g. Bob and John worked together in ~ for years.

par. The boys and girls are singing in agreement.

be in/ out of harmony with: be (not) correspondent/ coincident with

e.g. His tastes are in (out of ) ~ with mine.

She lived in ~ with her neighbors.

par. The violin was in agreement with the rest of the musical instrument.

The old ideas are not corespondent with the modern ones.

②harmonious (adj.)

a) in agreement; free from ill feeling

e.g. ~ families /neighbors

b)pleasingly or satisfactorily arranged协调的, 调和的

e.g. ~ colors a ~ group of building

③harmoniously (adv.)

e.g. The family lived ~.

We worked together ~.

④harmonize (v.)

a) bring one thing into harmony with another

e.g. She painted the walls to ~ the colors of the walls and the curtains.

He tried hard to ~ his views with facts.

b) be in harmony or agreement

e.g. The colors don’t seem to ~ with the decorations.

Your temperament doesn’t ~ with a slow pace of life.

c) (music) add notes (a melody) to make chords配上和音

e.g. The singer began to ~ the songs.

3. in the midst of: in the middle of; among

midst: (literature or old use ) the middle part or portion

in/ into/ from/ out of the ~ (of)

e.g. They departed in the ~ of a heavy rain.

He is the enemy I the ~ of us /in our ~. ( among us)

We rode into the ~ of the woods.

4. lie /lay/lain

①be situated

e.g. The small village ~s at the foot of the mountain.

The new capital of Brazil, Brasilia, ~s 600 miles northwest of the old capital.

②be kept or remains in a certain state

e.g. The fields lay thickly covered with weeds, because of Shaka’s orders for

mourning.

The snow lay thick on the ground.

The man lay in prison for seven years.

③hang, hover (used with ‘over’)

e.g. Deep sorrow lay over the whole country at the death of the premier.

Silence is lying over the forest.

A curse has always lain over that family. (恶运缠绕)

④be in a flat, resting position

e.g. He likes lying in bed after waking up.

The wounded soldier was lying on the battlefield.

⑤(of things) be resting flat on sth.

e.g. The book I bought last week are lying open on the table.

⑥be

e.g. For the next three months, the whole countryside lay in a grip of iron.

The manager wanted everything to ~ in his power.

The cause of Benny Paret’s death ~s in the prevailing mores.

⑦phrases

~ with sb.: be sb’s duty or responsibility

e.g. The responsibility ~s with the people to see a man hurt.

The decision/ solution / choice ~s with you.

It ~s with you to accept or reject the invitation.

~ in sth.: (of abstract things) exist

e.g. The trouble ~s in the engine.

The greatest charm of the bride’s costume ~s in its simplicity.

5. bloom

①(n.):flower, esp. of plants admired chiefly for their flowers (eg: roses, tulips,

chrysanthemums)

be in ~: ( of plants) flowering

e.g. The tulips are in full ~ now.

②(vi.): be in flower, bear flowers

e.g. The roses have been ~ing all summer.