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啃嚼語段:
Why was Tess's girlish purity lost?
為什么苔絲會失去少女的貞操?
Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman?
為什么不合適的男人要與不合適的女人結合?
Why do the bad so often ruin the good?
為什么壞人總是毀滅好人?
Why is beauty damaged by ugliness?
為什么美麗總被邪惡踐踏?
Thousands of years of philosophy cannot give us the answers to these questions.
數千年來的哲理無法給予我們這些問題的答案。
These things happen, and have always happened.
這些事情發生著,總在發生著。
Perhaps in the past, rolling home after a battle,
也許過去,苔絲的祖先們,那些真正的德伯家的人,在經歷了一場戰斗返回時,
Tess's ancestors, the real d"Urbervilles, had done the same, even more cruelly to young country girls.
曾對鄉村的姑娘們做過同樣的事,甚至更殘酷的事。
But we cannot accept that that is Tess's fault, and should happen to her.
但我們不能認為這是苔絲的過錯,應由她來償還。
As the people of her village say, "It was to be."
也許就像她村子里的人們說的那樣:“這一切都是命中注定的。”
And from now on,Tess's life was to be completely different.
從這以后,苔絲的生活就截然不同了。
語段精講:
第一、詞匯學習
1. purity
雙語釋義:state of being pure
[U.N] 純凈; 純潔
典型范例:We questioned the purity of their motives.
我們對他們的動機是否純潔存有疑問。
Chinese people regard lotus as an emblem of purity.
中國人把蓮花看作是純潔的象征。
2. wrong
雙語釋義:not morally right; unjust
[adj.] 不道德的; 不正當的; 不義的
語法用法:~ (to do sth)
典型范例:It is wrong to steal.
偷竊是不道德的。
He told me he had done nothing wrong.
他告訴我說他沒做任何不正當的事。
第二、短語學習
1. thousands of:成千上萬的
范例:The game drew thousands of spectators.
這場比賽吸引了數千名觀眾。
Car accidents kill thousands of Americans every year.
車禍每年使成千上萬個美國人死亡。
2. the answers to:......的答案
講解:表示......的答案,介詞要用to,不能用of。
范例:I didn't know the answers to the teacher's questions so I cribbed them off John.
我不知道教師出題的答案, 便抄襲了約翰的。
Please write out the answers to these questions.
請寫出這些問題的答案。
3. after a battle:打完仗后
范例:After a fierce battle,the enemy was forced to withdraw.
經過一場激烈的戰斗,敵人被迫撤退了。
After a prolonged battle, they managed to drive out the invaders.
經過長期的戰爭,他們終于趕走了侵略者。
4. in the past:在過去
范例:Many workers have taken to the arts in the past few years.
過去幾年中,許多工人對美術發生了興趣。
These are lessons drawn from our set backs in the past.
這些是我們吃了苦頭總結出來的經驗。
5. happen to sb:發生在某人身上
范例:If anything should happen to him, that would be too bad.
如果什么意外的事臨到他的頭上, 可就糟了。
If something should happen to her, please ring me up at once.
萬一她有個好歹,請立刻打電話給我。
6. from now on:從今后,從此刻后
范例:From now on I will try to do better.
從現在起我要盡量做得好些。
We hope from now on there will be more exchanges between our two peoples.
希望今后兩國人民之間有更多的交往。
第三、語法點撥
1. Perhaps in the past, rolling home after a battle, Tess's ancestors, the real d"Urbervilles, had done the same, even more cruelly to young country girls.
要點解析1:rolling home after a battle是現在分詞短語作時間狀語。
要點解析2:the the real d"Urbervilles做ancestor的同位語。
2. Why do the bad so often ruin the good?
要點解析:bad和good都是形容詞,在其前面加上定冠詞the后,就變為名詞,the bad是指“壞人,不道德的人”,the good是指“好人善良的人”。
3. And from now on,Tess's life was to be completely different.
要點解析:這個句子的謂語是be+動詞不定時,表示將來要做的事情。句子中時過去將來時態:was to be...。