新概念英语第二册 Lesson 78
新概念英语第二册-Lesson 78
第一部分 WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
第二部分 TEXT
After reading an article entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health'I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt extremely uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took one guiltily, lit it and smoked with satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more. Anyway, as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of times!
参考译文
读完一篇题为《吸烟与健康》的文章之后，我点上了一枝香烟，来镇定一下自己紧张的神经。我聚精会神而又愉快地吸着这枝烟。因为我确信这是我最后一枝烟了。整整一个星期我根本没有吸烟。在此期间，我妻子吃尽了苦头。我具备了戒烟者通常表现出来的所有症状：脾气暴躁和食欲旺盛。我的朋友们不断地向我递香烟和雪茄。每当我从口袋里掏出一包糖果时，他们都毫不掩饰地表现出他们对此感到非常好笑。这样过了7天以后，我去参加一次聚会。我周围的每个人都在吸烟，我感到非常不自在。当我的老朋友布赖恩极力劝我接受一枝香烟时，我再也忍不住了。我内疚地接过一枝点上，心满意足地抽起来。一切又都恢复了正常，为此我妻子十分高兴。不管怎么说，正如布赖恩指出的那样，戒烟是世界上最容易的事情，他自己就已戒了很多次了！
第三部分 LANGUAGE POINTS
r reading an article entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health'...
=After reading an article that was entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health'...
entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health':过去分词短语修饰article
Tips:
在英语中，文章名与书名中的每个单词的第一个字母均大写，不在开头位置的连词、冠词、小品词除外。entitle的含义为"给......题名／定名"，在这里是过去分词（短语）作定语。entitle常用于被动语态
2、I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves.
calm:使...平静下来；安抚...
3、I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking.
give up (doing):放弃做...不再做...
4、My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars.
keep on:继续做...
5、They made no effort to hide their amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweets from my pocket.
make no effort to:make the effort to do sth.的反义表达;表示"根本不作努力"
whenever:at whatever time
Ex
Come to see me whenever you feel you have to talk.
I avoided physical conflict whenever possible.
6. was more than I could bear.
more than:后面跟一个从句或一个形容词时可以表示"超出"（多用于口语）
Ex
He was more than pleased with his new room.
This was more than I had expected.
ay,as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking.
it为先行主语，代替后面的不定式短语 to give up...
point out:固定短语，表示"指出"、"指明"
Ex
Why didn't you point out his mistake to him at that time?
第四部分 KEY STRUCTURES AND USAGE
课文中分词的用法
After reading an article entitled ‘Cigarette Smoking and Your Health'...(现在分词)
=>They are watching a baseball game.
=> He has been collecting stamps since he was a boy.
=>The teacher holding a young tree in her left hand is Miss Lee
=>Dick stood there, thinking about what he was going to do with the money
=>The news seemed very encouraging
=>I enjoyed watching the boys making a snow man.
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Exercises
中译英
1、她开始抽泣,Meadows尽力地安慰她
2、因为激动他开始颤抖起来，为了使自己镇定下来他走到窗口
3、主席尽力地安慰他们使他们不至于害怕
4、我根本无意放弃政治
5、她从来没有完全地放弃希望
6、他们在沉默中又走了一会
7、我一直咳个不停，真不好意思
8、母亲们总得下好大决心才能带孩子出去玩
9、他没有拿到第一名一点也不令人惊奇。因为从一开始他就没有努力去赢
10、什么时候我想起她的脸，总是一张笑脸
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