【英语】2012年英语真题文本精讲144期
2012年text4第二段
①No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster. ②Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others. ③In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off.④ At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.
句子切分:
第一句:
1. No one tries harder than the jobless
2. to find silver linings in this national economic disaster.
翻译解析:在这次经济灾难中,没有人比失业者更努力地去寻找希望了。
第二句:
1. Many said
2. , while extremely painful,
3. that unemployment had improved them in some ways;
4. they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent;
5. they were more aware of the struggles of others.
翻译解析:许多人都认为尽管失业很痛苦(插入语前置),但也在某些方面让自己有所提升:他们变得不再那么物质了,在财务方面更加谨慎,对其他人的奋斗更加关注。
第三句:
In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off.
翻译解析:在有限的方面,这次萧条也会让整个社会变得更好。
第四句:
1. At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses,
2. and (it has)put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.
翻译解析:至少,它使我们从全国蔓延的暴富和大别墅的狂热梦想中苏醒过来及时结束了个人不计后果的盲目消费时代。
动词及短语(重点):
improve:改善,增进;真题高频词汇;
be aware of sth:意识到某事
struggle of sb:某人的努力和挣扎;
struggle with sb:与某人斗争
leave sb/sth better off:使某人或某事变得更好;leave在真题中多次被用到表示使怎么,让怎么样,相当于make/let;
awake-awoke-awoken:注意下该词(苏醒)的过去式和过去分词形式;
awake sb from sth:把某人从某事中唤醒出来;是某人从...中醒来;
put a end to sth=end sth:结束某事;
spend(动词,花费,花销)-spending(动名词,在这里用做名词表示花销,开销)
spread(动词,传播,延展)-spreading(现在分词,用作形容表示加宽的)
我们可以发现,真题中有很多动词变为现在分词或过去分词形式来用作形容词,或名词;大家平时学习中可以注意下;
reck(动词,表示顾虑,介意;)-reckless(形容词,不顾后果,不节制的)
其他相关词汇:
silver lining:一线希望;
A no harder than B: A不比B更努力;B最努力;
disaster:灾难,灾祸;注意与damage损害,损坏相结合记忆(2011-2)
in some ways:在某些方面,在某种程度上;
material:材料,原料(2011text3)-materialistic物质主义的,金钱至上的;
finance(名词,金融)-financial(形容词,经济上的,金融的)-financially(副词,经济上地) 该组词汇也是真题高频词汇
prudent:谨慎的,节俭的;注意与economical节约的,节俭的相结合记忆;
perhaps -probably -possibly -presumably真题中表示可能,大概义项的词汇基本上就是这些;
at the very least =at least至少
fever(dream):狂热的梦;have a fever发烧
easy rich(es):暴富;我们可以看到真题中有非常多的词所使用的语境与我们之前所理解的该词应该所在的语境还是有所区别的,比如easy这个词与rich相配,用来表示富得很容易--暴富;
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