注釋:① ranges n. 量程,范圍;山脈(range的復數)
v. 延伸(range的第三人稱單數);排列;把…分類
例句:
1. The tariff at the hotel ranges from 20 dollars to 50 dollars a day for a single room.
旅館的單人房間的價錢每天從20美元到50美元不等。
2. The frontier ranges from the northern hills to the southern coast.
邊界從北部山地一直延伸到南部海岸。
② slam v. 砰地關上, 猛放, 猛烈攻擊 n. 砰然聲, 猛烈抨擊
例句:
1. Please don't slam the door.
請不要使勁關門。
2. He slammed the papers down on my desk and angrily walked out.
他把文件使勁扔在我的桌子上便怒氣沖沖地走了出去。
③ plausible adj. 貌似可信的,花言巧語的;貌似真實的,貌似有理的
例句:
1. She could find no plausible explanation for its disappearance.
她無法解釋清楚何以不翼而飛。
2. He trotted out a most plausible story, but most of us were inclined to doubt the truth of it.
他提出了一個聽起來很有道理的說法,但我們大多數人對此都持懷疑態度。
句子講解:
1. Where Oceanic crust dives beneath the continental margin in the northwest, the Cascades or in South America the Andes Mountains, but these mountains here, in the middle of the continent, are much harder to explain.
【結構簡析】這句話是where引導的地點狀語從句,這句話中間的插入語很多,但我們看主干句,這句話是"these mountains are much harder to explain. " Daisy建議大家如果看不懂句子,抓主干會讓我們更清晰的分析句子。
【參考譯文】然而,海洋地殼不斷的潛入大陸邊緣的下方,在北美西北部形成了瀑布以及南美洲形成了安第斯山脈。這兒的山脈卻都在內陸,這可讓人怎么解釋。
2. What's amazing about collecting fossils is that you are really the first person to see this when you crack open a rock.
【結構簡析】這句的主語是what引導的主語從句,謂語部分是that引導的表語從句,表語從句中還還有個when引導的狀語從句。
【參考譯文】當你真正第一個打開巖石,你會對巖石中的化石感到驚訝。