新概念英语第三册 39
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一、【Text】课文
The rough road across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from. Even though the road was littered with boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed. Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away. It was not that Bruce always underestimated difficulties. He simply had no sense of danger at all. No matter what the conditions were, he believed that a car should be driven as fast as it could possibly go.
As we bumped over the dusty track, we swerved to avoid large wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine. Because of this, we kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.
What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to a stretch of plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes. But there was worse to come. Just ahead of us there was a huge fissure. In response to renewed pleadings, Bruce stopped. Though we all got out to examine the fissure, he remained in the car. We informed him that the fissure extended for fifty yards and was two feet wide and four feet deep. Even this had no effect. Bruce went into a low gear and drove at a terrifying speed, keeping the front wheels astride the crack as he followed its zig-zag course. Before we had time to worry about what might happen, we were back on the plain again. Bruce consulted the map once more and told us that the village was now only fifteen miles away. Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across. Bruce charged at it, but in the middle, the car came to a grinding halt. A yellow light on the dash- board flashed angrily and Bruce cheerfully announced that there was no oil in the engine!
二、【New words and expressions】 生词和短语
●rough adj. 崎岖不平的
●boulder n. 大石块
●pit v. 使得坑坑洼洼
●perturb v. 使不安
●underestimate v. 低估
●swerve v. 争转变
●scoop v. 挖出
●hammer v. （用锤）击打，锤打
●ominously adv. 有预兆的，不祥的
●rip v. 划破，撕，扯
●petrol n. 汽油
●stretch n. 一大片（平地或水）
●obstacle n. 障碍
●clump n. 丛，簇
●fissure n. （石、地的）深缝
●renew v. 重复
●pleading n. 恳求
●gear n. （汽车）排档
●astride prep. 骑，跨
●crack n. 缝隙
●zigzag n. “之”字形
●shallow adj. 浅的
●grind (ground, ground ) v. 磨擦
●halt n. 停
●dashboard n. （汽车上的）仪表盘
■rough adj. 崎岖不平的
Eg: We’d better not take
咬牙切齿
■halt n. 停
==stop
They halt for a few minutes.
stop; halt; cease
Eg: The heart will cease to beat when life ceases.
pause vi.
He paused for a breath.
halt
They halted for a few minutes.
halt; cease; pause; stop
halt n.
come to a halt / stop 停下来
■dashboard n. （汽车上的）仪表盘
三、【课文精析】
get sb. to do sth.: persuade / advise sb. to do
Please get them to finish the work as quickly as possible.
Please get him to give up smoking.
be littered with
be pitted with
even though: even if
not in the least= not at all / not a bit/ not the least bit 一点也不
not a little = very much
by no means= in no way =on no account =at no times= under no circumstances 绝不
a mere==only （必须和不定冠词搭配）
It was not (to say )…… 这并不是说
dusty track==dusty road
look back 回头看
wondering 从句做伴随状况状语
How relieved we were
give way to 为……所代替
Eg: The great clouds gradually broke up and give way to blue sky.
He has no intention of iving way to your demands.
in response to : in reaction to
Key sentence:
Before we had time to worry about what might happen, we were back on the plain again.
hardly ... when...
He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house.
Before he had hardly had time to worry about what might happen when we were back on the plane again.