Language points in Unit2
Warming –up and pre-reading
poem詩，韻文
compose/write a poem 作詩
What a beautiful poem the little girl has written!
Their life is a poem.
Poet n.詩人 poetry 詩（總稱）
A poetry book詩集 a poetry reading詩歌朗誦會
Poetic adj. 像詩的，有詩意的
remember 記得，想起； 紀念； 代――向――致意，問好
1）I remember putting the books on the shelf.
Rember to put the books on the shelf.
類似：forget regret
2) On this day we remember the dead of two world wars.
3)Rember somebody to somebody
Please remember me to your mother.
either
1)pron.&adj.(兩者中的一個)
I’ve bought two cakes----- you can have either.
You can park on either side of the street.
2) adv.也不（用于否定句）
If you don’t go, I won’t go either.
recite 背誦； 一一列舉，說出
the little girl can recite many poems.
He recited his complaint.（不滿）
aspect
方面 Consider a question in all aspects.
朝向，方位 The house has a south-facing aspect.
好景，容貌 Take on/assume a new aspect
Qing Yuan takes on an entirely new aspect.
Reading
convey
1)傳達，表達（感情，意見，思想等）
Words fail to convey our grateful feelings
Please convey my apologies to your parents.
2)傳送，運送（可與from, to連用）
Wires convey electricity from power stations to the users.
7 delight
1)[u] 歡喜，高興，愉快
I read your new book with real delight.
2)[c]樂事；討人喜歡的人，愛好的事物
Your little dog is a real delight.
3)V. 使喜歡，使高興
She delighted the audience with her jokes about the president.
Be delighted with對――感到高興 take delight in 嗜好，樂于，喜歡
to one’s delight 令某人高興的事 with delight高興地，欣然
詞語辨析：delight; joy; pleasure快樂，高興
pleasure愉快，滿足，樂事 表示強烈的心里滿足，有時有貶義。
It gives me much pleasure to hear of your progress.
He is a man of pleasure.
Delight快樂，樂趣 一般指勃發的較短的快樂情緒，比pleasure強烈
The scene is a perfect delight to the eye.
Joy 歡樂，樂事 表示強烈的形之于外的歡樂情緒，比delight更為持久。
There was great joy in the city.
They have been good friends both in joy and in sorrow.
8 run a race賽飛
Don’t try to run before you can walk. （跑）
The engine run quite smoothly. （運轉）
Tears ran down her cheeks. （流動，流）
The roads runs for miles. （通往，延伸，延續）
Who is running the country? （辦，管理，經營）
They ran the car downhill. （開動，驅動）
Run for競選 run risks/a risk 冒風險
In the long run 最后，終究 in the short run 短期，目前
Run into 碰上，遇到
9. score
He scored 3 points in the last half of the game.（在運動，游戲，比賽中得分）
What did the German judge score?（給分數或點數）
He scored high/well in the test.（考試中總分，得分）
The score was 2 to 1.（比分，得分）
We had a hard test last month in which the class all made low scores.
His life is but three score and ten years.
Scoreboard 記分牌 scorebook記分冊
Scorer 記分員 scoreless adj. 未得分的
10.take it easy不著急，放松，不要緊張
Just take it easy and tell us exactly what happened.
Take things/it easy不著急，放松，不要緊張
Take one’s time 不慌不忙，或拖拉，慢吞吞
The doctor told me to take things easy and stop working so hard.
There’s no hurry; take your time
11. somebody run out of something
something run out
1)m running out of petrol. I must find a gas station before it runs out.
2) We are running out of our time=Our time is running out.
12. tease取笑，招惹，戲弄
At school the other children always teased me because I was fat.
Don’t take it seriously ------he was only teasing.
Stop teasing the cat!
n. 愛開玩笑的人，愛戲弄別人的人
He’s a terrible tease.
13. branch樹枝；分支；分科；分岔；分支機構
A monkey was swinging from the branches.在樹枝上蕩來蕩去
The bank has branches all over the country.分行
Turn right where the road branches.分岔
14. translate 翻譯，能譯，把――用另一種形式表達出來 n. translation
A lot of Tang poetry has been translated into English.
Most poems don’t translate well. 譯得不好
The sentence won’t translate. 譯不出來
It’s time to translate your idea into action.
15. transform 徹底改變 n. transformation
Ten years pf hard work transformed Mathilde completely into an ordinary housewife.
The company has been transformed from a family business into one with 5000 workforce.
16. appropriate adj.恰當的，合適的
I think this is an appropriate moment to raise the question of my promotion.（晉升）
v.撥出（款項），挪用
The government has appropriated a large sum of money for building hospitals.
The minister was found to have appropriated government money.
Appropriation
Using language
17. pattern
1)模式，方式，形式
The illness is not following its usual pattern.不循常規
Does the poem have a rhythmic pattern?這詩遵守了押韻的規律嗎？
2)圖案
She wore a dress with a pattern of roses on it.
3)模范；榜樣
The company set a pattern for others to follow.
4)v.模仿，用圖案裝飾
He patterned himself upon a man he admired.
18. hold on 別掛斷；堅持下去
Hold on a minute ------ I’ll just get a pen.
Try and hold on until help arrives.
Hold back 阻擋；抑制 hold down壓下；壓制
Hold onto 緊緊抓住――不放 hold to堅持，信守，忠于
Hold sth./sb. Up推遲，使耽擱
19. underline在---下畫線；強調（可接從句）
Underline the sentences that you don’t understand.
Her question underlined how little she understood him.
20. load 負擔，負荷物
He came in with a heavy load on his shoulder.
Supporting such a large family is really a heavy load for her.
V.使承載，使負荷
Load the furniture into the van（貨車）.
=Load the van with furniture.