【英语】2011年英语真题文本精讲128期
2011年Text4 第一段,第二段:
①Will the European Union make it? ②The question would have sounded strange not long ago.③ Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth.
④As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. ⑤Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
句子切分:
第一句:
Will the European Union make it?
翻译解析:欧盟会成功吗?
第二句:
The question would have sounded strange not long ago.
翻译解析:不久之前(时间状前置)这个问题也许还觉得奇怪。
第三句:
1. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent
2. (a continent)facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth.
翻译解析:但现在即使是欧盟的倡导国也都在谈论欧盟所面临的“百慕大三角”——债务、人口下降以及增长缓慢。
第四句:
1. As well as those chronic problems,
2. the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,(逗号后面这部分为插入语,解释说明economic core) the 16 countries that use the single currency.
翻译解析:除了这些长期问题,欧盟的核心,即使用单一货币的16个国家,也存在严重危机。
第五句:
1. Markets have lost faith
2. (faith)that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,
3. which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
翻译解析:因欧元区各经济体,无论强弱,终有一天会因为使用同种货币的原则而融合,竞争力小的成员不能通过货币贬值来快速修复,对此市场已经失去信心。
动词及短语(重点):
make it:成功,达到;固定搭配
cheer(动词,欢呼)-cheerleader(拉拉队长,这里指拥护者)
talk of:说到,谈起;
face:面临,作为该义项本文出现了两次;confront也有面临,遭遇的意思;重要词汇
decline:这里用作名词,表示下降,可用作动词表示委婉拒绝;五星级词汇
converge:汇聚,靠拢;con(共同,一起)+ver(走)--走到一起--聚集,靠拢;重点词汇
thanks to :由于,幸亏;相当于on account of 2010年真题;重点词组
deny:拒绝,否认;2010年Text4
value(价值)-valuate(对..估价)-devaluate(动词,贬值)-devaluation(名词,贬值);五星级词汇
fix:在这里做名词,表示办法;还可以做动词表示修理,解决;
quick fix:权宜之计
lose faith:失去信心;
其他相关词汇(选择记忆):
current(作为形容词表示目前,现在;可用作名词,表示流,a current of electricity电流)-currency(货币)重点词汇
competent(有资格,有能力做某事,2010年Text4)-competitive(有竞争力的)-uncompetitive(无竞争力的)-competitiveness(名词,竞争力)重点高频词汇
chronicle(名词/动词:编年史,记录 2011年text2)-chronic(形容词,慢性的,长期的):在这里chron-这个前缀表示时间;
acute:急性的,作为此义项与chronic为反义词;其还可以表示严重的,激烈的;
as well as:和;相当于and;重要搭配
single:单一的;本文使用了两次,均为此义项如single currency/single market;2010年Text1(single artist);核心重点义项
euro zone(欧元区)-euro bonds(欧洲债券)
economic(经济的)-economies(经济体)
discipline:纪律;
strange(奇怪;陌生;外行)-stranger(陌生人;外行人)
continent:大陆,大洲(地理版块);state州,政治行政单位;
triangle(三角)-tangible(清楚的,2010年text2)
debt:债务;高频词汇 2010 text1
popular(受欢迎的)-popularize(使普及,使受欢迎)-population(人口)
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