英语选修七unit1课文注释

1、.*;选修七unit1MARTYS STORYHi, my name is Marty Fielding and I guess you could say that I am “one in a million. In other words， there are not many people like me. You see, I have a muscle disease which makes me very weak, so I cant run or climb stairs as quickly as other people. In addition， sometimes I

2、 am very clumsy and drop things or bump into furniture. Unfortunately, the doctors dont know how to make me better, but I am very outgoing and have learned to adapt to my disability. My motto is: live one day at a time .Until I was ten years old I was the same as everyone else. I used to climb trees

3、, swim and play football. In fact, I used to dream about playing professional football and possibly representing my country in the World Cup. Then I started to get weaker and weaker , until I could only enjoy football from a bench at the stadium. In the end I went into hospital for medical tests. I

4、stayed there for nearly three months. I think I had at least a billion tests, including onein which theycut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at it under a microscope . Even after all that, no one could give my disease a name and it is difficult to know what the future holds.One problem i

5、s that I dont look any different from other people. So sometimes some children in my primary school would laugh, when I got out of breath after running a short way or had to stop and rest halfway up the stairs. Sometimes, too, I was too weak to goeq o,sup121 to school so my education sufferedeq o,su

6、p122. Every timeeq o,sup123 I returned after an absenceeq o,sup124， I felt stupid because I was behind the others.one in a million百万人中才有一个in other words换句话说in addition另外；还有clumsy/klmzI/adj.笨拙的bump /bmp/vi.碰撞；撞击bump into撞上furniture nU家具outgoing/atgI/adj.外向的；友好的；外出的；分开的adapt to合适adapt/dpt/vt.使适应；改编mot

7、to n箴言；格言at a time 一次，每次used to 过去常常represent vt.代表；展示；描绘比较级and比较级“越来越bench/bent/n长凳in which they cut out .是“inwhich引导的定语从句，which指代one test。cut out切去；省略；停顿做某事microscope/maIkrskp/n显微镜it is difficult to know what .中，it是形式主语，动词不定式是真正的主语，在不定式短语中包含what引导的宾语从句。that引导表语从句，that起连接作用，不充当句子成分。out of breath上气不

8、接下气eq o,sup121too weak to go 是too . to构造，意为“太而不能。eq o,sup122suffer v变差；受难，受苦；遭受；蒙受eq o,sup123every time意为“每次的时候；每当的时候，作连词用，引导时间状语从句，从句也可以置于主句之后。eq o,sup124absence/bsns/n缺席；不在某处马蒂的故事第13段译文你好，我叫马蒂菲尔丁。我猜你可能会说我是“百万人中才有一个的那种人。换句话说，像我这样的人并不多见。你瞧，我的肌肉有缺点，使我的身体非常虚弱，所以我不能像别人那样快跑或快步爬楼梯。另外，有时候我还会笨手笨脚、摔掉东西，或磕碰到

9、家具上。不幸的是，医生们不知道如何治好我的病，但是我很开朗乐观，学会了适应身体的残疾。我的座右铭是：活一天算一天。10岁以前，我跟其别人是一样的。我常常爬树、游泳和踢足球。说实在的，我过去常常梦想我会成为职业球员，可能代表我的国家参加世界杯足球赛。后来，我的身体开场变得越来越虚弱，以致于我只能坐在体育场的长凳上欣赏足球了。最后我到医院去做了检查，住了将近三个月的医院。我想我至少做过十亿次检查了，包括有一次检查，他们从我的腿部切下一小块肌肉，放在显微镜下观察。即使做过了所有这些检查，也没有人可以确诊这个病。因此，很难知道将来会是什么样子。问题是我看上去跟其别人一样。当我跑了很短的一段路之后，我就

10、会喘不过气来，或者爬楼梯才爬到一半就得停下来休息。因此上小学时有的孩子见了我这种情况就会笑话我。有时候我的身体太虚弱，上不了学，因此落下了很多功课。每次缺课回来之后，我就觉得自己很笨，因为我比别人落后了。My life is a loteq o,sup125easier at high school because my felloweq o,sup126 students have accepted me. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me annoyedeq o,sup127， and

11、I just ignoreeq o,sup128 them. All in alleq o,sup129 I have a good life. I am happy to have found many thingseq o,sup130 I can do, like writing and computer programming. My ambitioneq o,sup131 is to work for a firmeq o,sup132 that develops computer softwareeq o,sup133 when I grow up. Last year I inv

12、ented a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy it from me. I have a very busy life eq o,sup134with no time to sit aroundeq o,sup135 feeling sorry for myself. As well aseq o,sup136 going to the movies and football matches with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I hav

13、e two rabbits, a parroteq o,sup137 , a tankeq o,sup138 full of fish and a tortoiseeq o,sup139. To look after my pets properlyeq o,sup140 takes a lot of time but I eq o,sup141find it worthwhileeq o,sup142 I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.eq o,sup125a lot此处为程

14、度副词，相当于much, 修饰easier。eq o,sup126fellow/fel/adj.同伴的；同类的 n同伴；同志；伙伴eq o,sup127annoy/nI/vt.使不悦；惹恼annoyed /nId/adj.颇为生气的eq o,sup128ignore vt.不理睬；无视eq o,sup129all in all总而言之eq o,sup130动词不定式的完成式to have done表示该动作发生在谓语动词所表示的动作之前。eq o,sup131ambition /mbIn/n雄心；野心eq o,sup132firm/fm/n公司eq o,sup133software/sftwe

15、/n软件eq o,sup134with no time to sit around是with复合构造；feeling sorry for myself 顾影自怜，在句中作伴随状语。eq o,sup135sit around闲坐着eq o,sup136as well as和；也。置于句首，后接动词时，要用动名词形式。eq o,sup137parrot/prt/n鹦鹉eq o,sup138tank/tk/n盛液体、气体的大容器；缸；大桶eq o,sup139tortoise/tts/n陆龟；龟eq o,sup140动词不定式短语作主语。eq o,sup141find it worthwhile是“

16、find宾语宾补构造。eq o,sup142worthwhile adj.值得的，多作表语、定语或宾补。第4段译文我在中学时期的生活比在小学时要轻松多了，因为我的同学已经承受了我的状况。还有少数同学看不到我的内心世界，但是我并不生气，只是不去理睬他们罢了。总而言之，我生活得挺好。我很快乐地发现我能做许多事情，比方写作和电脑编程。我有雄心壮志，长大后我要在开发电脑软件的公司里工作。去年我开发了一款电脑足球游戏，有一家大公司已经决定从我这儿买走。我的生活很充实，没有时间闲坐着顾影自怜。除了同我的朋友一起去看电影和足球比赛外，我还花很多时间和我的宠物在一起。我有两只兔子、一只鹦鹉、一缸鱼和一只乌龟。

17、我得花大量时间来照顾这些宠物，但我觉得很值得。此外，我还有好多功课要做，特别是在病了一段时间之后。In many wayseq o,sup143 my disability has helped me grow stronger psychologicallyeq o,sup144 and become more independenteq o,sup145 . I have to work hard to live a normal lifeeq o,sup146 but it has been worth it. If I had a chance to say one thing to

18、healthy children, it would be thiseq o,sup147： having a disabilityeq o,sup148 does not mean your life is not satisfying. So dont feel sorry for the disabled or make fun ofeq o,sup149 them, and dont ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them encouragementeq o,sup150 to live as rich and full a lif