新概念英语第三册逐句精讲语言点第5课(4)

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新概念英语第三册逐句精讲语言点第5课(4)

The facts 确切数字

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began： 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the

journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.


10. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.

但记者还是没有回复。编辑无奈，勉强按原样发了稿。

语言点1：句子结构分析：when引导时间状语从句。Reluctantly表示“勉强地”，为方式状语。As引导方式状语从句，交代文稿的状态。 语言点2：“fail+动词不定式”的搭配看似肯定，实则否定。 例句支持：

I fail to see why you think so. 我不明白你们为什么这么想。 They fail to revive the economy. 他们没能使经济复苏。

语言点3：be reluctant to do sth.=be unwilling to do sth.意思是“不情愿做某事”。 例句支持：

She was very reluctant to do the job.(=She was unwilling to do the job.) 她很不情愿做这份工作。

11. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.

一周之后，编辑终于接到了记者的传真。

语言点1：句子结构分析：a week later放在句首，强调时间久。At last说明最终结果。

语言点2：at last=in the end/finally/eventually/in course of time/ultimately,意思是“终于，最后”。 例句支持：


You'll learn English well in course of time.你总有一天会学好英语。

12. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.

那个可怜的记者不但被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。

语言点：句子结构分析：not only放在句首引起部分倒装。But…as well连接两个并列的动作。

13. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

语言点1：句子结构分析：however为过渡性的转折用语。To send a fax是动词不定式短语，作主语he的补足语。In which是“prep.+关系代词”结构，引导定语从句，修饰fax。That引导宾语从句，说明informed的内容。Leading to …为现在分词短语，作定语，修饰steps。While引导时间状语从句。第二个which引导定语从句，修饰wall。

语言点2：be allowed to do sth.=be permitted to do sth.意思是“被允许做某事”。

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