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第四十三课：飓风

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　课文翻译

　　1.Reading comprehension阅读理解………………

THE HURRICANE (2)

　飓风(二)

　　A great many parks lost trees in the hurricane. Three famous parks in and

　　许许多多的公园在飓风中损失了树木。伦敦市内和近郊三个著名的

　　around London had over 1,400 trees blown over.

　　公园里有1，400多棵树被刮倒。

　　Kew Gardens is an old and famous research centre for plants in the Lon

　　凯尤·加登斯是伦敦地区一个古老而又有名的植物

　　don area. For centuries travellers have returned from abroad with seeds and

　　研究中心。几个世纪以来，出国旅行的人带回一些树种和

　　young plants to add to the centre's collection. It has therefore a large number

　　树苗，增加了研究中心的品种。因此，在这个研究中心里有大量古老

　　of old and unusual trees. Altogether the centre lost more than 1,000 trees in

　　而稀有的树木。在这次飓风中这个中心共损失了1,000多棵树。

　　the hurricane. One tree which dated from 1761 was blown over and many other

　　有一棵1761年栽的树被刮倒了，还损失了许多其他的

　　valuable trees were lost. Later on the centre had a large number of new trees

　　贵重树木。后来，这个研究中心派人种植了大量

　　planted.

　　的新树。

　　Woods and forests in the southeast were completely destroyed. Millions of

　　东南部的大小森林已全部被毁。现在已经

　　young trees have already been planted to take the place of those which were

　　种植了数百万棵小树，来取代那些被

　　blown over. But it will be more than 100 years before the country begins once

　　刮倒的树。但是要过100多年以后，这个国家才能

　　again to look as it did before.

　　恢复到以前的样子。

　　Surprisingly, the weather report on the evening before the storm said there

　　令人惊奇的是，风暴发生之前的那个晚上，天气预报说，

　　would be strong winds, but not a hurricane. In fact, an expert who was stud-

　　将有强风，而没有飓风。事实上，有一位当时正在研究

　　ying the weather rang up the BBC to ask if a hurricane was on its way. The

　　气候的专家曾经打电话给英国广播公司询问是否有一股飓风要来。

　　weatherman in his TV broadcast repeated this to millions of people and then

　　而气象员在电视中却对数百万观众反复作了上述的预报，并且

　　said that there would be no hurricane. The next day he had a very red face.

　　说不会有飓风。第二天他的脸羞得发红了。

第四十三课：飓风

重点·难点·考点及疑点注释

　　1.a great many很多，大量的

　　A great many people are needed here.这儿需要大量的人员。

　　辨析：a great many许许多多；a good many很多；many a/an许多(带有文学色彩)。前两个短语修饰主语时谓语动词要用复数；第三个短语修饰单数名词，谓语动词用单数。

　　2.Kew Gardens凯尤·加登斯(伦敦西郊国立植物园)

　　3.add to增加

　　What she had done added to our difficulties.她所做的事增加了我们的困难。

　　4.date from从……开始；从……发出；注明日期

　　The disaster dated from the first century.这场灾难始于一世纪。

　　5.take the place of取代

　　Mr Chen is ill today. I'll take his place to give you a lesson.

　　陈老师今天病了，我来替他上一节课。

　　同义词链接：take one's place

　　辨析：take the place of; in place of; instead of三者含义都是“代替”。但第一个短语是动词短语，作谓语；后两个短语是介词短语，作状语或定语。

　　6.ring up给……打电话

　　What time did you ring her up?你几点钟给她打的电话？

　　同义词链接：call sb. (up); phone sb.; make a phone call to sb.

　　7.the British Broadcasting Cooperation (英国广播公司)的缩写为the BBC

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