Unit 15We are trying to save the manatees! 重难点解析.doc

Unit15 We are trying to save the manatees! 重难点解析（1）重点词汇save gentle furry enormous playful aggressive gray spotted African strong mangrove swamp habitat aquatic feed underwater vegetation foot weigh pound against suitable tiny cage educate public urge recycle stuff material pull bottle glue roof discard tile fence can inspiration spare politely environment care for pull down be made from详解1 save seivvt. &vi. 抢救, 节省, 储蓄, 顾全。【例】 （1）The doctors tried their best to save the patients life. 大夫们尽力抢救这个病人。（2）Your kind help saved me a lot of trouble. 你好心的帮忙省了我很多麻烦。（3）Every month they have been trying to save 10 percent out of their monthly pay, so that in time theyll be able to buy a computer. 他们每月把百分之十的工资储蓄起来，准备买一台电脑。（4）He said that just to save his face. 他这么说只是为了保全面子。2 feed fi:d n. 饲料，牧草。作动词用表示“喂食物，供给”等意思。【例】（1）There is enough feed for the animals. 动物的饲料足够。（2）He feeds his horse on beans. 他用豆子喂马。（3）The lake is fed by four big rivers. 有四条大河流入这个湖。（4）The bird refuses to feed. 这只鸟不肯吃食。（5）The stream feeds into a pond. 这条小溪流入一个池塘。3 foot futn. 英尺，脚，脚步，底部，它的复数是feet。它可作动词用。【例】 （1）She has never set foot on American soil. 她从来没有到过美国。（2）He has a light foot. 他脚步轻快。（3）The village lies at the foot of a green hill. 村庄坐落在青葱的小山脚下。（4）The road is twenty feet long. 这条路有二十英尺长。（5）We missed the last bus and had to foot it. 我们误了最后一班车，只好步行。（6）They told me to foot up the account. 他们叫我结账。（7）He footed the bill for us all. 他替我们大家付了账。（8）The expenses footed up to four hundred Canadian dollars. 全部费用共计四百加拿大元。4 weigh weivt. & vi. 称重量，考虑，重压，有影响等。它的名词是weight。【例】 （1）She weighed two apples in her hand and gave me the bigger one. 她用手掂量两个苹果，把大一点的给了我。（2）Young people sometimes do things before weighing the consequences. 青年人办事有时不考虑后果。（3）The branches of the apple tree were weighed down by the fruit. 苹果树的枝子被果实压弯了。（4）The airplane weighs five tons when unloaded. 这架飞机不载货时重五吨。（5）Your eloquence will not weigh with us. 你的雄辩不会对我们起什么作用。（6）Her illness weighed on her husbands mind. 她的病使他丈夫心情沉重。（7）Vegetables are sold by weight. 蔬菜是按重量卖的。（8）Her success in the examination was a great weight off her fathers mind. 她考试及格，使父亲心头如释重负。（9）It has some weight with me. 此事对我有一点影响。5 pullpulvt. &vi. 拉, 牵, 拔, 吸引。可作名词用，它的反义词是push。【例】（1）She pulled the door open. 她拉开了门。（2）I pulled at the handle but the door didnt open. 我拉了一下把手，但没有把门拉开。（3）They vie with each other in pulling more votes for themselves. 他们相互争着为自己多拉选票。（4）He took a pull at the bottle. 他从瓶里喝了一大口酒。（5）It was a long pull along the Great Wall to the beacon tower on the peak. 还要沿着长城爬很长一段路，才能爬到顶峰的烽火台。（6）A good education gives a man a great pull. 良好的教育能给人带来莫大的好处。（7）Why do you push against me? 你为什么推我？（8）The strikers pushed for higher wages. 罢工者争取提高工资。6 discard dika:d vt. 丢弃，放弃。【例】 （1）He discarded the old dictionary for a new one. 他丢弃了旧字典，换上新的。（2）Such die-hards will be discarded by history. 这种顽固分子会被历史所抛弃。（3）We should discard the dross and select the essential. 我们应该去粗取精。7 canknn. 罐头。作动词用表示“装罐头”，此外它可作情态动词用，后跟动词原形。【例】（1）He bought two cans for his daughter. 他给女儿买了二听罐头。（2）Turtle meat is canned and sold as a delicacy. 甲鱼肉被制成罐头作为美食出售。（3）He can sing and play the piano at the same time. 他能边弹钢琴边唱歌。（4）What he said can be true. 他说的可能是真的。（5）You cant say such things to a friend. 你不可以对朋友说这种话。8 environment vairnmntn. 环境【例】 (1) They live in a quiet environment. 他们住在安静的环境里。(2)We must protect our environment. 我们必须保护环境。 (3)This is a true story of mans struggle with his environment. 这是个人类与环境作斗争的真实的故事。Unit15 We are trying to save the manatees! 重难点解析（2）关键句型Were trying to save the manatees! I am like this animalTheyre about 10 feet long and they weigh about 1, 000 pounds. I dont think so. I disagree with you. Recycling paper is easy. But its hard to stop riding in cars. 详解1 Were trying to save manatees! 我们正尽力挽救海牛! try to do sth. 尽力做某事; try doing sth. 尝试着做某事。【例】 （1）They tried to solve the problem. 他们尽力解决这问题。（2）They are trying using another method. 他们正试用另一种方法。注：try ones best=do ones best 是“竭尽全力”的意思，后跟不定式。【例】（1）Ill do/try my best to do the work well. 我将一定把工作做好。（2）You should try/do your best to improve your spoken English. 你应当尽量提高你的英语口语能力。（3）He did his best to run faster, but he failed. 他尽最大努力跑得更快，但还是失败了。2 Youre like an elephant. 你像一头大象。be like “像一样”，有时用look like“看起来像”。like是介词；like作动词用是“喜欢”。【例】（1）Your daughter looks like a basketball player. 你的女儿看上去像篮球运动员。（2）Thats just like him. 他就是这种人。（3）I cant tell what a spaceship is like. 我说不上来宇宙飞船是什么样子。（4）He doesnt like tomatoes. 他不喜欢吃西红柿。3 Ive visited a lot of zoos in my life. 我一生中参观过许多动物园。in ones life“一生，一辈子”；a lot of=lots of。【例】（1）Lei Feng did lots of good deeds for the people in his life. 雷锋一生中为人民做了许多好事。（2）They have saved a lot of animals in their lives. 他们一生中救了大量的动物。4 The animals are kept in tiny cages and can hardly move at all. 动物被关在小笼子里, 几乎一点都不能动。hardly不是hard的副词形式，它的意思是“几乎不”，是个否定含义的词，务必要与hard区别开。【例】（1）He hardly ever goes to bed before midnight. 他难得在午夜前睡觉。（2）I could hardly believe my eyes when he suddenly appeared. 他突然出现时，我几乎不敢相信自己的眼睛。（3）The loaf is as hard as a brick. 这块面包硬得像块砖头。（4）He isnt afraid to take on hard jobs. 他不怕承担困难的工作。（5）The teacher worked hard to prepare his lecture. 老师努力备课。（6）He looked hard at me all the while. 他一直紧盯着我。5 I dont think so. 我不这样认为。I think so. 我认为是这样。so在此是代词，代替上文的句意，否定常用not。以下是英语的习惯用法：I think so. I dont think so. I am afraid so. I am afraid not. I hope so. I hope not. I believe so. I dont believe so. /I believe not. 6 They wont have enough money to take care of so many fine animals. 他们没有足够的钱来照看这么多好的动物。enough修饰形容词或副词时要后置；enough后跟不定式表示能够做某事。take care of=look after。【例】 （1）He has enough time to do the work. 他有足够的时间做这项工作。（2）Three comrades are quite enough for the job. 有三位同志干这件事就够了。（3）We have enough to do to finish the job on time. 要准时完成这件事，我们还得大大努力。（4）He is always ready enough to help us. 他总是很自愿的帮助我们。（5）His job is to take care of the diesel engine. 他的工作是管柴油机。（6）Here, let me take care of the cleaning. 来，让我来打扫吧。（7）You must look after yourself well. 你必须照顾好你自己。（8）The children must be looked after well. 孩子必须照看好。7 I stopped using them last year. 我去年就不用他们了。stop doing sth. 是“停止做某事”，而stop to do sth. 则是“停下来去做某事”。【例】 （1）We must never stop studying English. 我们要不停地学习英语。（2）The baby stopped crying when he saw his mother. 那孩子看见他妈妈就不哭了。（3）Were so tired. Lets stop to have a short rest. 我们太累了，咱们停下来休息一会儿吧。（4）He stopped to talk with me. 他停下来和我说话。8 I agree with you. 我同意你的看法。agree是“同意，取得一致的意见”的意思。agree作及物动词时，后常跟名词，不定式或that从句。其可单独使用，也可和介词to, with, on等连用，agree on用在被动结构中，以事物作主语时，表示“（某事）是大家同意的”意思，on有时可省略。【例】 （1）Can we agree the price?我们能不能商定一个价格？（2）I agree that your suggestions is quite good. 我认为你的建议非常好。（3）I really cant agree with you. 我实在不能同意你的意见。（4）We agreed on the date for the meeting. 我们对开会的日期取得了一致的意见。（5）After a short time, the program was agreed (on). 过了一会儿，这项计划大家都同意了。（6）He has agreed to our plan for the holiday. 他已同意了我们的假期计划。9You have probably never heard of Amy Winter before. 你可能从未听说过艾米温特。hear of “听说”，而hear from “得到消息”。【例】 （1）Most of the children have heard of Snow White.