Lesson56

Fasterthansound

比聲音還快racingcarsoldcarsraceListentothetapethenanswerthequestion.Howfastofthewinningcar?Thewinnercarreachedaspeedoffortymilesanhour.★sound①n.聲音soundn.任何聲音都可以voicen.人的聲音noisen.和周圍不和諧的聲音,噪音②v.聽起來soundlike聽起來像Hesoundslikealittleboy.Thatsoundsgood.③adj.等于reasonable

合理的,講道理的，（身體）好的Hisbodywasstillsound.Ihaveapieceofsoundadvice.我有一個合理的建議。soundlyadv.香甜的sleepsoundlyexcitementn.激動,興奮

toone'sexcitement…令某人激動的是……Toeveryone’sexcitement,thoughitwasverydifficult,hewontheprize.

令大家激動的是，盡管很難，但是他仍然贏得了那個獎項。Themostexcitingthingisthat…

最令人激動的是……

Themostexcitingthingisthathewinsthefirstprize.Themostsurprisingthingaboutsthisthat某事最令人驚訝的是……

Themostsurprisingthingaboutthecompetitionisthathewinsthefirstprize.excite vt. 使興奮,使激動Ionlytakeonworkthatexcitesme,evenifitmeansturningdownlotsofmoney.我只承接讓我感興趣的工作，即使這意味著損失很多錢。handsomeadj.漂亮的,美觀的

一般與男孩子連用，形容男孩,英俊；與人連用有陽剛的美，與物相連表示美觀大方，并表示制作精良；跟女性連用的時候就表示這個女孩子有陽剛氣，類似女俠的概念。Yourhusbandishandsome.Hegivesmeahandsomepresent.Sheisahandsomepolicewoman.beautiful形容人的時候表示內(nèi)在和外在美的統(tǒng)一,完美的概念。Youlookbeautiful.Flowersarebeautiful.pretty美麗(用于女孩或小孩)，有柔美的意思pretty跟男性連用就表示沒有陽剛氣，女性化nice美好的(人，天氣,食物,物品的品質(zhì)等)good-lookingadj.很好看的lovely可愛的good-lookingadj.很好看的smart小巧而美麗的(物)或時髦而美麗的(人)cute漂亮,常用來形容小孩wheeln.輪子，車輪ThemostunusualcarwasaBenzwhichhadonlythreewheels.thewheelsofacar汽車輪子Putyourshouldertothewheel.努力工作。Americaisacountryonthewheel.Australiaisacountryonthebackofsheep.wheelchair

輪椅walkingstick

拐杖★explosionn.爆炸,轟響在第二次爆炸之后，倫敦的主要火車和地鐵站都關(guān)閉了。Afterthesecondexplosion,allofLondon'smaintrainandsubwaystationswereshutdownexplosive

adj.爆炸(性)的,爆發(fā)(性)的,暴露n.爆炸物,炸藥；explodevt.使爆炸；vi.爆炸,爆發(fā),破除,推翻,激發(fā)喬治發(fā)現(xiàn)她臉色不好，決定最好在她爆發(fā)之前離開。Georgecaughtthelookanddecidedthathehadbetterleavebeforesheexploded.bombn.炸彈；vt.投彈于,轟炸炸彈爆炸了。Thebombexploded.★course①n.跑道，行程on/offcourse按照軌道運行/偏離軌道那只船沿著航線航行。Theshipisoncourse.那架飛機偏離航線很多英里。Theplanewasmanymilesoffcourse.②n.課程這學(xué)期我學(xué)了七門課Thisterm,Itook/takesevencourses.★rivaln.對手那本書在同類書中鶴立雞群Tpetitorn.競爭者,對手oppositen.相反的事物；adj.相對的,對面的,對立的,相反的,對等的,對應(yīng)的opponentn.對手,反對者(持反對意見的人,如辯論賽上的和政治上的)enemyn.敵人rivaladj.勢均力敵的；n.勢均力敵的對手★speed（sped，sped）①v.疾駛，急行警車急馳而過，超過了我們。Thepolicecarspedpastus.放慢些,你超速了。Slowdown.You'respeeding.②n.速度atthespeedof以……的速度此車以車速40公里/小時的速度行駛。Thecargoesatthespeedof40milesanhour.speedup/down加速/減速★downhilladv.下坡downhill

adv.下坡；向下；每況愈下;adj.下坡的；容易的;n.下坡；滑降godownhill

下山Heheadeddownhilltowardtheriver.他朝山腳下的小河走去。uphill

adj.上坡的，向上的;adv.向上地；往上坡;n.上升；登高Hehadbeenrunninguphillalongway.他向上坡跑了很長的一段路。去樓下godownstairsdowntown市中心的商業(yè)區(qū)Onceayear,araceisheldforoldcars.=Oldcarraceisheldonceayear.once+表示時間的名詞每……一次郵遞員一天來一次。Thepostmancallsonceaday.beheldfor為……而舉行明天要召開一個會議來討論這個問題。Ameetingwillbeheldfordiscussingtheproblem.Alotofcarsenteredforthisracelastyearandtherewasagreatdealofexcitementjustbeforeitbegan.enterfor報名參加

agreatdealof+不可數(shù)名詞大量的……

agreatnumberof+可數(shù)名詞

agreatmany+可數(shù)名詞許多……

alargeamountof+不可數(shù)名詞justbefore中的just起強調(diào)作用OneofthemosthandsomecarswasaRolls-RoyceSilverGhost.oneof直接作主語的時候,它是做單數(shù)看待的Heistheonlyoneofthoserarepeoplewhobelievesinancientmyths.Heisoneofthoserarepeoplewhobelieveinancientmyths.如果在定語從句中出現(xiàn)了oneof作為先行詞，它后邊的關(guān)系代詞指代的是后面的復(fù)數(shù)名詞；如果在oneof前面還有一修飾詞only，那么后邊的關(guān)系代詞將指代one這個詞，作單數(shù)看ThemostunusualcarwasaBenzwhichhadonlythreewheels.most最高級

themostbeautifulmost大部分

mostofthestudentsalmostadv.差不多，幾乎Thecouplehadbeendatingforalmostthreeyears.這對情侶談戀愛差不多三年了。Theeffectisalmostimpossibletodescribe.這影響幾乎無法言表。Builtin1885,itwastheoldestcartakingpart.

builtin1885過去分詞做狀語，表示原因takingpart現(xiàn)在分詞短語作定語takepart參加takepartin參加…活動joinin/enterfortakeplace按計劃必然發(fā)生≈happen（偶然發(fā)生）Thenextracewilltakeplacenextyear.taketheplaceof代替…的地位=insteadofShetooktheplaceofhim.Afteragreatmanyloudexplosions,theracebegan.Manyofthecarsbrokedownonthecourseandsomedriversspentmoretimeundertheircarsthaninthem!breakdown車子拋錨，（機械等）出故障ThismorningIwaslateforwork,becausemycarbrokedowntwice.under/inthecar

在車下面修理/正常駕駛SoIspentalmost2hoursunderthecar,butonly15minutesinthecar!所以我花了將近2個小時修理，卻只開了15分鐘的車。Afewcars,however,completedtherace.Thewinningcarreachedaspeedoffortymilesanhour--muchfasterthananyofitsrivals.thewiningcar獲勝車aspeedof+數(shù)量詞速度為……muchfaster快得多；alittlefaster快一點anyofitsrivals＝anyrival任何一個any在比較級中一旦出現(xiàn),要加可數(shù)名詞的單數(shù)北京比其他城市都要大。Beijingisbiggerthananyothercity.如果是不定代詞,可以說someoneelse,anyoneelseItspeddownhillattheendoftheraceanditsdriverhadalotoftroubletryingtostopit.attheendof…在……的末尾/最后部分他在會議要結(jié)束的時候，講了幾句話。Hespokeafewwordsattheendofthemeeting.havetrouble(in)doingsth.干……有麻煩，做……很困難他們在找出火災(zāi)的原因的時候遇到了困難。Theyhadsometroublefindingoutthecauseofthefire.Theracegaveeveryoneagreatdealofpleasure.givesb.pleasure