(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.profession
①(信念、观点或感情的)公开表示(此为文中含义)
例:his professions of love 他的爱情表白
②职业;行业
【常见搭配】
①sb is sth by profession 某人的职业是……
例:They're both doctors by profession.
他们两人的职业都是医生
。②enter/go into/leave a profession 从事/离开某行业
例:The report notes that 40 percent of lawyers entering the profession are women.
报告指出,从事这一行业的律师中有40%是女性
。2.diffuseness 扩散(在文中指扩散问候,也就是问候周到)
【同根词】diffuse v. 扩散,弥漫 adj. 扩散的,弥漫的;难解的,冗长的
【常见搭配】
①diffuse knowledge 传播知识
②a diffuse light 漫射光
③diffuse from... into... 从某处扩散到某处
例:Oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream.
氧气从肺部扩散到血液中
。3.pile up 积累,堆放
例:Problems were piling up at work.
工作中的问题越积越多
。【相关单词】合起来为名词pileup,意为“追尾;堆积”
例:A five-car pileup slowed traffic.
五辆汽车连环相撞导致通行速度减慢
。4.at one's desire 按照某人的意愿
【相关俚语】sb's heart's desire 心之所向;心上人
例:When she agreed to marry him he felt he had achieved his heart's desire.
当她答应嫁给他时,他感觉终于得到了自己的心上人
。【常见搭配】desire for sth 对……的渴望
例:There is a strong desire for peace among the people.
人们有着对和平的强烈渴望
。长难句分析
The first half hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be farther from the door.
解:主谓宾+目的状语从句+主谓宾+目的状语从句
析:该句是分号连接的两个独立句,第一句中,lest作为从属连词引导目的状语,表否定,意为“以免,唯恐”;第二句中,that单独出现引导目的状语从句,意为“以便”,比较考验预感判断
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