(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.give sb. credit for 夸奖某人……；对……给予肯定
例：You have to give him credit for being so honest.
你应该对他的诚实给予肯定。
【常见搭配】
①be a credit to sb./sth. 使……感到光荣
例：She is a credit to her family.
她为她的家庭增光。
②on credit 赊账
例：The family was forced to live on credit from local merchants.
这家人不得不靠向当地的商家赊账过活。
2.render 使成为，使处于某种状态
例：His rudeness rendered me speechless.
他的粗鲁令我无语。
【常见搭配】
①render sth. down 将……熬成油；熬煮
例：These lumps of fat from the meat can be rendered down and used for cooking.
这几块肥肉可以炼成油来做菜。
②render a decision/verdict 正式宣布决定/判决
例：The Council is expected to render a decision soon.
预计安理会将很快作出决定。
3.divert 娱乐，供消遣
例：The dog kept the children diverted for a while.
这条狗让孩子们开心了一会儿。
【常见搭配】
①diverte attention away from 将注意力从……转移开
例：The war has diverted attention away from the country's economic problems.
战争将人们的注意力从国家经济问题上转移开了。
②divert sb from sth 使某人从某事上分心
例：Dealing with complaints diverts a salesperson from his primary task of generating sales.
处理投诉会使销售人员从创造销售的主要任务上分心。
4.vanity 虚荣
例：He wants the job purely for reasons of vanity and ambition.
他想得到这份工作纯粹是出于虚荣心和野心。
【常见搭配】vanity mirror 化妆镜
【单词拓展】vanity除了“虚荣”，还有“化妆台”和“洗手台”的意思，相当于“dressing table”和“vanity unit”。
长难句解析
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
解：长主语+谓语+宾语+介词短语+定语从句
析：否定词“nay”常用在书面语中，插入在两个名词主语之间，用来否定前面的主语，例如“Long essays, nay, whole books have been written on this.”；whose引导定语从句，意为“某人/物的……”，在从句中充当定语成分。
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