裕兴版新概念英语 第二册 第66课 lesson 66 详细笔记

Lesson 66:Sweet as honey! 像蜜一样甜！

First listen and then answer the question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What was 'sweet as honey' and why?

In 1963 a Lancaster bomber crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa. The plane wasn't too badly damaged, but over the years, the crash was forgotten and the wreck remained undisturbed. Then in 1989, twenty-six years after the crash, the plane was accidentally rediscovered in an aerial survey of the island. By this time, a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing. The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France. Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. It has four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, but the group will need to have only three of them rebuilt. Imagine their surprise and delight when they broke open the packing cases and found that the fourth engine was sweet as honey -- still in perfect condition. A colony of bees had turned the engine into a hive and it was totally preserved in beeswax!

(文中出现的部分生词注音：Wallis ['vɑ:lis] Island ['ailənd] 瓦立斯岛Samoa [sə'məuə] 萨摩亚群岛accidentally [,æksi'dentli]偶然地Rolls-Royce ['rəulz'rɔis]（劳斯莱斯）Merlin ['mə:lin]梅林)

New words and expressions 生词和短语

Lancaster ['læŋkəstə] n. 兰开斯特

bomber ['bɔmə] n. 轰炸机

remote [ri'məut] adj. 偏僻的

Pacific [pə'sifik] n. 太平洋

damage ['dæmidʒ] v. 毁坏

wreck [rek] n. 残骸

rediscover [,ri:di'skʌvə] v. 重新发现

aerial ['εəriəl] adj. 航空的

survey [sə:'vei, 'sə:vei, sə-] n. 调查

rescue ['reskju:] v. 营救

package ['pækidʒ] v. 把......打包

enthusiast [in'θju:ziæst,inθu:-] n. 热心人

restore [ri'stɔ:] v. 修复

imagine [i'mædʒin] v. 想像

packing case ['pækiŋ keis]包装箱

colony ['kɔləni] n. 群

bee [bi:] n. 蜂

hive [haiv] n. 蜂房

preserve [pri'zə:v] v. 保护

beeswax ['bi:zwæks] n. 蜂蜡

【生词讲解】

ncaster ['læŋkəstə] n. 兰开斯特

2. bomber ['bɔmə] n. 轰炸机

bomb n. 炸弹

a time bom

b 定时炸弹

an atomic bomb 原子弹

a bomblet 小炸弹（-let表示“小的”）

go like a bomb 非常成功

bomber ['bɔmə] n. 轰炸机（注意其中的字母b是不发音的）发音规则：-mb- 中，b 不发音

eg. climb bomb comb tomb thumb dumb

3. remote [ri'məut] adj. 偏僻的

1) adj. 遥远的，偏远的=distant

a remote island in the Pacific Ocean

太平洋的一个遥远的小岛

a remote village.

一个偏远的村庄

2) adj. （时间上）久远的，遥远的

in the remote past 在遥远的过去

in the remote future 在遥远的将来

4. Pacific [pə'sifik] n. 太平洋

1）太平洋

2）adj. 和解的，和平的，爱和平的peaceful

peace n. 和平

a pacific solution 和平解决

a dove of peace 和平鸽

the Pacific Ocean 太平洋

5. damage ['dæmidʒ] v. 毁坏

1)n. [u] 损坏、破坏

damage to the car 对车辆造成的损坏

damage to the crops 对庄稼造成的损坏

damage to one’s reputation 对名誉造成的损坏

=damage to one’s fame

2)n. [c] pl. 损坏赔偿金（damages）

eg. He claimed $7000 damages from the taxi company.

他向出租车公司索要7000美元的赔偿金。

$5000 damages to the injured man

给予受伤者的5000美元的赔偿金

3)vt. 损伤，加害于，损害（名誉）