Unit

3

Family

tiesDeveloping

ideas1

Harmony

in

a

family

makes

everything

successful.

家和萬事興。（教材P53）

harmony

/?hɑ?m?ni/

n.融洽相處

［不可數(shù)名詞］in

harmony

with

sb.與某人相處融洽

She

lives

in

harmony

with

her

neighbors.她和鄰里相處融洽。

be

in

harmony

with

sth.

和某事物一致；和某事物協(xié)調

Your

suggestions

are

not

in

harmony

with

our

aims.你的建議與我們的目標不符。2

Who

can

you

turn

to

in

order

to

solve

problems

in

your

family?

為了解決問題，你可以向家庭中哪個成員求助？（教材P53）

通常與problem連用。

Remember

we

should

try

our

best

to

solve

all

the

problems

by

ourselves.記住我們應該盡最大努力自己解決所有的問題。solve

/s?lv/

v.解決（問題）

solution［名詞］解決方法a/the

solution

to...……的解決方法

Brainstorming

is

the

practice

of

coming

up

with

ideas

or

solutions.頭腦風暴是想出主意或解決方法的練習。

There’s

no

simple

solution

to

this

problem.這個問題沒有簡單的解決辦法。3

Many

countries

offer

family

hotlines

to

give

advice

about

family

relationships.許多國家都提供家庭熱線，為家庭關系提供建議。（教材P53）

relationship

/r??le???n??p/

n.（人或團體之間的）關系

由“relation（n.關系）+-ship（名詞后綴）”構成。

She

has

a

close

relationship

with（與……關系親密）

her

sister.她和她妹妹關系非常親密。

Honesty

is

the

first

step

to

build

a

good

relationship

between

parents

and

children.誠實是建立良好親子關系的第一步。

4

She

dressed

up

as

a

queen.

她把自己裝扮成一個女王。（教材P54）

dress

up

裝扮

dress

up

as/like(后接表示角色或職業(yè)等的名詞

)裝扮成

He

dresses

up

as/like

a

doctor

in

this

play.在這部劇中，他扮成一名醫(yī)生。

dress

up還可表示“穿上盛裝”。

We

all

dressed

up

for

dinner.我們都穿上盛裝赴宴。5

Her

mother

often

goes

to

pick

her

up

in

this

dress.

她媽媽經(jīng)常穿著這件衣服去接她。（教材P54）

pick

up

搭載；（開車）接人

是“動詞+副詞”型短語，其后接名詞作賓語時，名詞放在pick與up之間或up之后均可；若接代詞作賓語，代詞只能放在pick與up之間。

Shall

we

go

to

the

airport

to

pick

up

your

sister（=pick

your

sister

up）？我們去機場接你妹妹好嗎？

Your

sister

is

coming.

Let’s

go

to

pick

her

up.你姐姐就要來了，咱們去接她吧。

pick

up的其他常見含義：撿起；拿起Helen

picked

up

a

magazine

and

began

to

read.

海倫拿起一本雜志，開始看起來。學會Last

week,

I

picked

up

a

popular

recipe

to

cook

fish.

上周，我學會了一個流行的烹飪魚的食譜。收拾；整理Will

you

pick

up

all

your

toys?把你的玩具都收起來好嗎？接電話I

called

you

at

seven

and

you

didn’t

pick

up.我7點給你打電話，你沒有接。6

John

and

Robert

Taylor

finished

the

school

bike

race.

約翰·泰勒和羅伯特·泰勒完成了學校的自行車比賽。（教材P56）

finish

/?f?n??/

v.完成，做完

（1）［不及物動詞］結束

The

meeting

finishes

at

5:00

p.m.會議在下午5點結束。（2）［不及物動詞］&［及物動詞］完成；做好finish

doing

sth.做完某事

My

brother

doesn’t

finish

on

time.我哥哥沒有按時完成。（不及物動詞）

She

finishes

reading

this

magazine.她讀完了這本雜志。（及物動詞）典例

用所給單詞的適當形式填空。Zhang

Peng

helped

his

mother

cook

the

dinner

after

he

finished

______

（do）

the

homework.doing[解析]

句意：做完家庭作業(yè)后，張鵬幫媽媽做晚飯。

finish

doing

sth.“做完某事”為固定用法。故填doing。7

They

are

always

close

to

each

other.

他們一直親密無間。（教材P56）

be

close

to

sb.和某人親近

此處close作形容詞，意為“親密的；親近的”。

My

brother

and

I

are

very

close.我和弟弟很親。

We’re

a

very

close

family.我們是親密無間的一家人。

She

is

very

close

to

her

father.她和父親的關系很親密。

close的其他常見含義：【語境串記】Tony

lives

close

to

Sam.

The

new

supermarket

is

close

to

their

houses

and

it

usually

closeson

Tuesday.

托尼住得離薩姆很近。新開的超市離他們的家很近，但它通常在周二不營業(yè)。8

But

Robert

has

a

serious

disease

and

cannot

move

at

all.

但是羅伯特得了一種很嚴重的病，完全不能動。(教材P56)

serious/?s??ri?s/

adj.嚴重的

There

was

a

serious

car

accident

yesterday

morning.

昨天早上有一起嚴重的車禍。

The

problem

is

serious.問題很嚴重。

serious的其他常見含義：（1）嚴肅的，認真的

be

serious

about

sb./（doing）

sth.

對某人/（做）某事是認真的

We

should

be

serious

about

this

problem.我們應該嚴肅對待這個問題。

Is

she

serious

about

giving

up

her

job?她辭職是認真的嗎?

You

can’t

be

serious!你一定是在開玩笑吧！

（2）很感興趣的；熱衷的

She

is

a

serious

cyclist.她熱衷于騎自行車。（作定語）

When

it

comes

to

fishing,

he

is

very

serious.一提起釣魚，他就來勁。（作表語）

not（...）at

all根本不；一點也不

表示強烈的否定。not常位于連系動詞be、助動詞或情態(tài)動詞之后，at

all通常位于句尾。

We

don’t

know

each

other

at

all,

but

the

bright

smiles

bring

us

closer.我們根本不認識彼此，但是燦爛的笑容讓我們更加親密。

—Would

you

mind

if

I

sit

here?你介意我坐在這里嗎？—Not

at

all.一點也不介意。

not

at

all不用謝；不客氣常用來回答別人的感謝。

—Thank

you

for

your

kindness.非常感謝你的好意?！狽ot

at

all.（相當于“You’re

welcome.”）

不客氣。9

One

day，he

found

a

way

out.

一天，他想到了一個辦法。（教材P57）

way

out

出路，擺脫困境的辦法

There

must

be

a

way

out

of

this

problem.一定有解決這一問題的辦法。

還可表示“（建筑物的）出口”，相當于exist。

The

sign

pointed

to

the

way

out

of

the

building.

這個標志指向大樓的出口。10

It

is

hard

for

John

to

pull

Robert’s

trailer.

對約翰來說，用拖車拉著羅伯特很辛苦。（教材P57）

It

is

hard

to

do

sth.做某事很辛苦。

此處hard意為“費力的，費勁的”。

It

is

hard

to

wash

so

many

clothes.洗這么多衣服很辛苦。

hard的其他常見用法：（1）困難的

同義詞為difficult,反義詞為easy。

This

year’s

exam

was

much

harder

than

last

year’s.今年的考試比去年的難得多。

It

is

hard

to

believe

that

she’s

only

nine.很難相信她只有九歲。（2）硬的

This

bread

is

as

hard

as

a

rock（=very

hard）.

這個面包硬得像塊石頭。11

But

John

refuses

to

race

without

his

brother.

但是約翰絕不肯不帶弟弟就參加比賽。（教材P57）

refuse

/r??fju:z/

v.拒絕，回絕

refuse

sb./sth.拒絕某人/某物refuse

to

do

sth.拒絕做某事

Jenny

refused

my

help

politely.珍妮禮貌地拒絕了我的幫助。

We

should

obey

the

law

and

refuse

to

waste

food.我們應該遵守法律，

拒絕浪費食物。典例

根據(jù)首字母提示填空。[遂寧中考]

I

r_______

Wilson’s

invitation

to

the

party

because

I

had

to

study

for

a

test.efused[解析]

根據(jù)“because

I

had

to

study

for

a

test”（因為我得備考）可知，此處是說，我“拒絕”了威爾遜的邀請。結合首字母可知，應用refuse；再根據(jù)“had

to”可知，此處應用一般過去時，故填refused。12

For

the

Taylor

brothers，the

result

doesn’t

really

matter.

對于泰勒兄弟來說，結果并不重要。（教材P57）

result

/r??z?lt/

n.結果，后果

as

a

result

結果；因此as

a

result

of

由于the

result

of

……的結果

As

a

result,

my

speech

was

a

success.結果,我的演講很成功。We

put

off

the

football

match

as

a

result

of

the

awful

weather.由于糟糕的天氣，我們把足球賽延期了。This

book

is

the

result

of

25

years’

research.這本書是25年研究的結果。

［動詞］發(fā)生；產(chǎn)生

The

mistake

resulted

from

his

carelessness.這個錯誤是他的粗心造成的。

The

disease

resulted

in

his

death.這種疾病導致了他的死亡。

matter

/?m?t?/

v.（尤指對某人自己或對發(fā)生之事）重要，要緊，有關系

It’s

time

that

matters.

重要的是時間。

It

doesn’t

matter

if

you’re

rich

or

poor.富有還是貧窮都沒關系。（朝陽中考）

［名詞］問題；麻煩What’s

the

matter（with...）?（……）怎么了？該句型常用來詢問某人或某物出了什么問題,相當于“What’s

the

trouble（with...）?”或“What’s

wrong

（with...）?”。

What’s

the

matter

with

your

head？你的頭怎么了？

What’s

the

matter

with

Jack?

He

looks

unhappy.

杰克怎么了？他看起來很不高興。典例

Pay

no

attention

to

those

who

laugh

at

you.

What

most

___

is

h