注釋:① jump-starting n. 借火;起動 v. 起動(jump-start的ing形式)
例句:
1. What we are doing is jump-starting these concepts and demonstrating their potential.
我們現(xiàn)在做的是跳躍性的展示這些概念和潛力。
2. Maybe the economic measures already taken will end up doing the trick, jump-starting a self-sustaining recovery.
或許現(xiàn)有的經(jīng)濟(jì)措施最終會發(fā)揮預(yù)期的效果,推動經(jīng)濟(jì)的持續(xù)發(fā)展。
② pick up 撿起;獲得;收拾
例句:
1. I'd really like to pick up Grandpa at the railroad station.
我真想去火車站接爺爺。
2. I'll go to pick up some odds and ends at the store.
我要到商店買些零碎的東西。
3. She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.
她到法國居住后很快就學(xué)會了法語。
③ turn out v. 結(jié)果是, 生產(chǎn), 出現(xiàn), 關(guān)閉, 翻轉(zhuǎn), 證明是
例句:
1. Remember to turn out the lights before you go to bed.
臨睡前別忘了關(guān)燈。
2. The news turned out to be false.
那個消息后來證明是假的。
句子講解:
1. You go to a particular area, and you pick up all the species of leaves that are there from the trees that are growing in that area, and you compare the number of species that have teeth to the number of species that have smooth margins.
【結(jié)構(gòu)簡析】 由"and"連接的兩個句子,這些動作是自然而然發(fā)生的。你到了一個地方,先是 "pick up" 摘葉子然后就是"compare"這些葉子。其他成分是用來說明這些葉子的修飾成分。
【參考譯文】 去一個特定的區(qū)域,摘下該地區(qū)樹上所有不同種類的樹葉,然后比較該地區(qū)齒狀形樹葉物種的數(shù)量。
2. So if you've got into a hot air balloon here today, and you float it straight up into the atmosphere, the temperature will decrease in a very predictable way, and it turns out that for about every mile you go up in the atmosphere, you lose about 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
【結(jié)構(gòu)簡析】這個長句子要表達(dá)的意思非常的簡單,就是你愈往上走,就愈感覺到冷。
【參考譯文】如果今天你就坐在熱氣球里,在這兒你會直線上升飄到大氣層中,可以預(yù)見溫度會不斷的下降。事實(shí)也證明,在大氣中每上升一英里,就下降華氏20度左右。