(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.in support of 支持；拥护
A majority voted in support of the bill.
大多数人投票支持这项法案。
【常见搭配】
①support for sb/sth 支持某人/某事
There was little support for the proposal among the Board members present.
出席会议的董事会成员中几乎没有人支持这项提案。
②gain support 获得支持
Environmental groups are fast gaining support among young people.
环保组织正迅速获得年轻人的支持。
2.threaten to do 威胁要做某事
They threatened to kill him unless he did as they asked.
他们威胁要杀了他，除非他照他们说的做。
【常见搭配】
threaten sb with ... 用……威胁某人
They threatened the shopkeeper with a gun.
他们用枪威胁店主。
3.denounce 谴责，痛斥
The government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
政府的经济政策受到了各方的谴责。
【常见搭配】
denounce sb/sth as ... 谴责某人/某事为……
The teachers denounced the contract offer as inadequate.
4.pledge to do 承诺做某事
Both sides have pledged to end the fighting.
双方都承诺结束战斗。
【常见搭配】
pledge (some money) to/for sth 承诺给予某人/某事多少钱
EU leaders pledged $1.2 billion to the region over the next 18 months.
欧盟领导人承诺在未来18个月向该地区提供12亿美元。
5.famine 饥荒
Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
再一次粮食歉收可能会导致大范围的饥荒。
【同根词】famished 极饥饿的
Have some dinner with us -- you must be famished!
和我们一起吃点晚饭吧——你一定饿坏了！
长难句解析
Some demonstrators denounced the U.S. government, which is among the foreign powers that have called for a cease-fire as a yearlong war that has killed thousands of people intensified amid advances last weekend.
解：主谓宾+定语从句（含另一定语从句）+状语从句（含定语从句+状语）
析：“which is among the foreign powers that have called for a cease-fire”是非限定性定语从句，对前面的“the U.S. government”进行补充说明，其中包含一that引导的定语从句，修饰“the foreign powers”，that在该从句中充当主语成分，不可省略；“as a yearlong war ... last weekend”是as引导的原因状语从句，表明外国势力呼吁停火的原因，该从句中包含一定语从句“that has killed thousands of people”，修饰从句的主语“a yearlong war”；“amid advances last weekend”是介词短语作状语。
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