【英语】2014年真题文本精讲161期
2014年text1 第一段
①What would you do with $ 590m? ②This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.③ If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dumn and Michael Norton.
句子切分:
第一句:
What would you do with $ 590m?
翻译解析:如果你有5.9亿美元你会怎么花?
第二句:
1. This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie,
2. an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.
翻译解析:84岁的老妇人(同位语前置)Gloria Mackenzie最近也面临着这个问题。她最近离开了自己那座位于佛罗里达州的铁皮小房子,去领取历史上最大的单笔彩票头奖。(定语从句信息过长,分开翻译)
第三句:
1. If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment,
2. she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dumn and Michael Norton.
翻译解析:如果她希望这笔意外之财能带给她带来持久的满足感,她最好看一看Elizabeth Dunn和Micheal Norton所著的(修饰语前置)《快乐金钱》。
动词及短语(重点):
do with sth:处理某物;
emerge from:从...出现;
collect:收集;这里表示领取;
divide(动词,分开)-undivided(形容词,单一的;未分开的)
yield:本文的重要词汇,表示生产,产生;相当于produce/generate;
last:本文作为动词表示持续,持久;last这个单词虽然简单但是我们的真题中非常高频,主要考察过的义项还有最后的;上一个;
fulfil(动词,完成,满足)-fulfillment(名词,满足感);高频词汇
do worse than A:不如做A
其他相关词汇:
widow:寡妇;
lottery:彩票;
jackpot:头奖;积累赌注;
fortune:财富;
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