重点词汇词组

1.take one's seats 坐下；就坐

例：Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.

各位来宾，请就座@+7pT]u1S7nG。

【相关俚语】

①bums on seats 观众人数；上座率

例：Lowering ticket prices should increase the number of bums on seats.

降低票价应该会提高上座率(R@JPK-k9Q.q10。

②seat of learning 学府，学术中心

例：The Sorbonne is a world-famous seat of learning.

索邦大学是世界闻名的学术中心[+~T&*,GYsHxy%+。

2.look around 四处看看；游览

例：When we went to Boston, we only had a couple of hours to look around.

我们到达波士顿的时候，只有几个小时的时间去四处看看TLMigcdBk%BL%K9VD)。

【常见短语】

①look forward to sth. 盼望，期盼

例：I'm really looking forward to my holiday.

我热切盼望着假期的到来pWs&BVt(0e@_*t。

②look into sth. 调查，研究

例：We're looking into the possibility of merging the two departments.

我们正在研究这两个部门合并的可能性7KRj2_4CD(3LJGB。

【相关俚语】

①be not much to look at 没有吸引力，没什么可看的

例：The house isn't much to look at but it's spacious.

那所房子没什么吸引人的地方，只是很宽敞^dmSP;3E8gm15QFagduh。

②look straight/right through sb. 对（某人）视而不见

例：I said hello but she looked straight through me.

我跟她打了个招呼，而她却对我视而不见xUImWa^iLZ。

3.be struck with… 被……打动；迷恋……

例：I was struck with her youth and enthusiasm.

她年轻热情，把我迷住了Z3Xv1Z)8=c。

【常见短语】

①strike on/upon sth. 发现；想起

例：She struck on the idea for her novel while she was travelling in Russia.

她在俄罗斯旅行途中萌生了该小说的创作灵感1@Na,~Eg&_[。

②strike out 独立开创新事业；自立谋生

例：After working for her father for ten years, she felt it was time to strike out on her own.

她在为父亲工作了10年之后，感觉到是该自己独立开创一番事业的时候了eNF1&8~]*#Oj#t。

【相关俚语】

①strike fear/terror into sb. 使（某人）极度恐惧

例：The brutal military regime has struck terror into the whole population.

残暴的军事政权使全体民众惊恐万分]pk.p4NA2u-。

②strike a balance 求得平衡

例：It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.

问题在于要在产品质量和生产率之间求得适当的平衡g*9L3W84If%z。

长难句解析

But when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds¹, she² felt³ all the force of the compliment⁴, and would hardly have resented⁵ a comparison⁶ with the housekeeper's room.

解：1时间状语从句+2主语+3谓语+4宾语+5谓语+6宾语

析：宾语从句：what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor

这两个宾语从句分别由连接代词what和who引导，其他常见的连接代词有：whom, which, whose等N4mxxuoWPo。宾语从句要用陈述句语序，而不用疑问句语序S]BUmw_Cj2。

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