模擬演習:
1. He wrote to say ___________________(他們終究還是不能給我一份工作).
2. There’s a man at the reception desk who seems very angry and I think he means__________________(想找麻煩).
3. I would_______________(不會訴諸法律)a court of law if I hadn’t been so desperate.
4. This popular sports car_________________(正在生產出來)out at the rate of a thousand a week.
5. Mark often_________________(試圖逃脫罰款)whenever he breaks traffic regulations.
答案:
1. they couldn’t give me a job after all
(本句直譯即可,say后面一般跟賓語從句,所譯的部分即為從句內容,“終究”用after all來表示)
2. to make trouble
(本題考查固定短語make trouble“找麻煩”,此外還考查mean to do sth的結構)
3. have never resorted to
(本題考查虛擬語氣的形式,根據從句用的hadn’t been 可知,主句應用would have done 的形式。Resort to 用于表示“訴諸”)
4. is now being turned
(根據時間副詞“正在”和“車是被生產的”這一概念可以判斷出譯文應用現在進行時的被動語態,即be being 動詞的過去分詞形式,本題另一難點在“turn out”生產這個詞組上,題干只給出了out,需要填入turn將其補全)
5. attempts to escape being fined
(本題考查固定短語attempt to do sth表示“努力做某事”,其次考查escape的用法,其后要接動名詞形式,常與介詞from搭配)
adj. 絕望的,不顧一切的