大学生英语第一册知识点整理

English Homework

Course 2

Unit 6

Text A: I’m GOING TO BUY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

短语：

Resist the temptation 抵制诱惑；be consumed with 因…而心劳神疲；consume away 消耗Item by item 逐条；hit/strike home 言语等击中要害；get one’s act together 将自己的各事安排的有条不紊；urge sb.to do 催促某人干某事；achieve/have one’s heart’s desire 达成某人的目标；bide one’s time 等待良机；at intervals 断断续续的；move on to 转而干某事；race the clock 争分夺秒的工作；put pencil/pen to paper 动笔写

句型：

It seems to do sth.

Eg: It seemed to say, are movers and shakers—not only during office hours, but in their spare time as well.

It’s sb. who do sth.

Eg: When my faith in myself falter, it’s they who urge me on,whispering,”Go for it, lady!”.

Text B: BEGINNING ANEW

短语：

take/get/gain credit for sth. 因…获得荣誉或赞赏；soak up 吸收，吸取；at every opportunity 利用一切机会；weight down 使忧心忡忡；take back 收回，取回；set out to do sth. 着手做某事；in control of sth. 对…有控制权或支配权；seek after 寻找，设法得到；have courage to do 有勇气干某事；walk the floor 来回踱步；a breath away 一步之遥；early mid-life crisis 更年期；make a fresh start 重新开始；help with expenses 补贴家用；take back one tear 后悔；句型：

It turn out to be…

Eg: It turned out to be a journey well worth the effort.

As …as…

Eg: He was as worried as I was.

What would I do…

Eg: What would I tell my husband and what would be his reaction?

It’s not so much A as B.

Eg: It’s not so much the results of the action that have reshaped me as it is the realization I have within myself what it takes to do what I set to do.

Unit 7

Text A:THE GLORIOUS MESSINESS OF ENGLISH

短语：

ban sb. from doing sth. 禁止某人干某事；strictly speaking 严格地说；to a…extent 从某种程度上来说；language of the planet 全球性的语言；stir up 提神；descend the stairs 下楼梯；descend from 起源于；come up with 想出；pass sth. on to sb. 把…传递给某人；put into practice 付诸实践；strike out 开创；intellectual elite 知识分子精英；

句型：

There is something that…

Eg: There is something direct to the heart that speaks to us from the earliest words in our language.

Sth. would not have been …

Eg: The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself.

Text B: THE ROLE OF ENGLISH IN THE 21ST CENTURY

短语：

Alert sb. to sth. 使某人对某物警觉；conduct business 做生意；contribute to 促进；integrate A with B 使A和B为一体；information age 信息时代；industrial age 工业时代；information processing 信息处理；printed work 出版物；give way to 让道于…；to name a few 举个例子；rid oneself of 使其摆脱；be less likely to do 不太可能；co-exist with 和…共同存在

句型：

It belongs to…

Eg: It belongs to whoever uses it for whatever purpose or need.

There is no reason to do…

Eg: There is no reasion tobelieve that any one other language will appear within the next 50 years to replace English.

There are no examples to…

Eg: There are no example to help us predict what happens to a language when it achieve genuine word status.

Unit 8

Text A:SAVING NATURE, BUT ONLY FOR Man

短语：

Environmental sensitivity 敏感的环保意识；belief in democracy 民主信仰；take aversion 产生厌恶；be nice to do…乐意做某事；ozone layer 臭氧层；greenhouse effects 温室效应；eye cataracts 白内障；food chain 食物链；melt ice caps 融化冰盖；man-centered 以人为中心的；call for 要求；on the ground of 因为；self-preservation 自我保护；in the name of 以…的名义；Feeling polite 有风度；on the point of excess 很过分；fight way through…打通穿过…的路；Come through 挺过来；be in charge of…对…负责；work one’s way 设法抵达；frame of mind 心境；for one’s sake 为…的利益

句型：

Sth. be sacrificed to…

Eg：Sometines aesthetic goods have to be sacrificed to the more fundamental ones.

Sth. be worth doing

Eg: Clearly not everything with an environmental claim is worth doing.

As …as…

Eg: Environmental sensitivity is now as required an attitude in polite society as is, say, belief in democrary or aversion to nylon.

It’s adj. enough to do sth.