注釋:① push vt. 推動;增加;推行;逼迫
vi. 推;推進;增加;伸展;努力爭取
n. 推;決心;奮力;攻擊;干勁;進取心
例句:
1. Some plants push their roots deep into the soil.
一些植物的根深深長入土中。
2. It's not my job to push up the sales.
我并不負責提高銷售額。
② investigate v. 調查;研究
例句:
1. However, as evidence began to accumulate, experts felt obliged to investigate.
然而,由于證據開始增多了,專家們感到必須進行調查了。
2. The climbers sent two men up to investigate the rockfall.
登山者派了兩個人爬上去察看巖石墜落的情況。
③ subduct vt. 除去;減去;取回
vi. 下拉;撤去 vt. 除去;減去;取回
例句:
1. The border between the North American and Eurasian Plates does not subduct.
北美板塊和歐亞板塊之間的邊界地區不會俯沖潛沒,也不會滑動。
句子講解:
1.Traces of iron in granite is evidence that rock, pushed up from 15 miles below the surface, tilting the Flatirons.
【結構簡析】咋一看,咦,怎么有三個動詞在句子中。其實,后面的兩個是非謂語動詞,"pushed" 和"tilting"中首先講講"pushed",它是過去分詞,用來解釋說明"rock"從哪里來。"tilting"是現在分詞,做伴隨狀態,巖石升上來的同時也就傾斜成燙斗狀。
【參考譯文】花崗巖中的鐵元素向我們證明,巖石是從地表下的15公里升起來的,同時傾斜成了平頂脊(熨斗形巖石)。
2. What we know is that at the time of this grand uplift, on the western margin of North America, ocean crust, and Oceanic Plate, was subducting beneath the North American Plate.
【結構簡析】這是一個由what引導的主語從句,后面接著"that"的表語從句。句子中插入的部分太多,導致Daisy剛開始理解錯了.后來,多看幾遍后,知道了原來"and"的理解非常關鍵,它不是 "on the western margin of North America, ocean crust, and Oceanic Plate"整個的作為插入語,而是" ocean crust, and Oceanic Plate, was subducting beneath the North American Plate. "。
【參考譯文】我們所知道的是,這段時間內在北美的西部邊緣地帶,海洋地殼,以及海洋板塊,從北美板塊下大面積地隆起。