【英语】2011年英语真题文本精讲123期
2011年Text3第一段,第二段:
①We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
②But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.③ During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
句子切分:
第一句:
1. We tend to think of the decades as a time of prosperity and growth,
2. ( the decades) immediately following World War II
3. with soldiers returning home by the millions,
4. going off to college on the G. I. Bill
5. and lining up at the marriage bureaus.
翻译解析:我们总是把第二次世界大战后的(修饰语前置)几十年视作繁荣和增长的(A of B的结构翻译成B的A)时代,那时数以百万计的(修饰语前置)士兵回到家中,根据《军人安置法案》(状语前置)去读大学,或在结婚登记处(状语前置)排队办理结婚手续。
第二句:
1. But when it came to their houses,
2. it was a time of common sense and a belief
3. that less could truly be more.
翻译解析:然而,一提到房子,这却是一个“少即是多”(修饰语前置)成为(增词法)常识和信念的年代。
第三句:
1. During the Depression and the war,
2. Americans had learned to live with less,
3. and that restraint, in combination with(=and) the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.
翻译解析:在大萧条和战争期间,美国人学会了节俭的生活,这种克制与对战后未来的信心结合在一起,使得小而高效的住房风格成为绝对的时尚。
动词及短语(重点):
tend to:往往..倾向于;高频短语
think of A as B :把A认为是B;真题中出现过类似的有regard A as B/see A as B等;重要短语
follow sth:什么之后;该表达真题中多次出现,高频
prosper(动词,繁荣,昌盛)-prosperous(形容词,繁荣的)-prosperity(名词,繁荣);重点词汇
grew-growth(这里表示发展,相当于development)
go off to sth:动身前往某处
bill:这里表示法案,相当于act法案;该词还有账单的意思,后面碰到再总结;重点单词
line up:表示排长队
come to :这里指提到某个话题(话题来到哪里)
Depression:大写的Depression特指20世纪30年代的大萧条;经济类重要词汇,注意与recession合并记忆;
restrain(动词,抑制约束)-restraint(名词,约束,抑制);重点单词
complain(动词,抱怨)-complaint(名词,抱怨)2011年真题中有出现过(与上面一组单词构词是一样的)
in combination with:与什么相联系;就等于combine with sth;相当于and;2017年真题中也出现过,高频短语;
其他相关词汇(选择记忆):
debate(s):十年,后面加s表示几十年;
immediate(形容词,立即的)-immediately(副词,立刻,在这里翻译成就在...)
a time of :某一时期;相当于a period of /an era of
by the millions:数百万,注意后面的s不能省略
bureau:局,办事处;Text2中foreign bureau外事办
houses(本文指房子)-housing(相当于house building)
common sense:常识
belief:这里表示建筑理念;该词还可以表示信念,信仰;高频重点词汇
true(形容词,真实的)-truly(副词,确实是)
prewar(战前)-war-postwar(战后)
confident(形容词,有信心的)-confidence(名词,信心)
efficient housing-efficient living-efficient houses:efficient在这里都理解成利用率高的
positive(形容词,积极地positive habits2010年;确定的)-positively(本文表示,明显地)
style(名词,时尚)-stylish(形容词,时尚的)
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