(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.be in love 在恋爱，相爱
例：I'm in love for the first time and it's wonderful.
我是第一次谈恋爱，感觉非常奇妙。
常见搭配：fall in love (with sb.) 爱上（某人）
例：I was 20 when I first fell in love.
我20岁的时候第一次谈恋爱。
相关俚语：for love nor money 无论怎样
例：You can't get hold of those tickets for love nor money these days.
这些天你根本没法搞到票。
2.speak to sb. 和某人交谈
例：The President refused to speak to the waiting journalists.
总统拒绝同等候的记者讲话。
常见搭配：speak out/up 公开发表意见
例：If no one has the courage to speak out against the system, things will never improve.
如果没有人敢挺身而出反对现行体制，情况永远也不会改善。
相关俚语：
①speak your mind 坦言直说
例：He's certainly not afraid to speak his mind.
他当然不怕说出自己的真正想法。
②so to speak 姑妄言之，可以说
例：In that relationship it's very much Lorna who wears the trousers, so to speak.
可以这么说，他们家里基本上是洛娜说了算。
3.means 方法，手段
例：They had no means of communication.
他们没有通讯手段。
相关俚语：
①a means to an end 达到目的的手段
例：He doesn't particularly like the work but he sees it as a means to an end.
他不怎么喜欢这项工作，只是把它看作达到目的的手段而已。
②by no means 决不，一点都不
例：She is by no means an inexperienced teacher.
她绝不是个毫无经验的教师。
4.have sth. in common 有相同（兴趣、经历或特点）
例：We don't really have much in common.
我们其实没有多少共同点。
常见搭配：in common with sb./sth. 与……一样
例：In common with many mothers, she feels torn between her family and her work.
与许多母亲一样，她觉得家庭与工作难以兼顾。
长难句解析
They1 had2, therefore, many acquaintance3 in common; and, though Wickham had been little there4 since the death of Darcy's father, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends, than she had been in the way of procuring5.
解：1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4让步状语从句+5比较状语从句
析：让步状语从句：though Wickham had been little there
引导让步状语从句的从属连词有although，though，as，even if等，其中as/though引导让步状语从句时一般需用部分倒装，结构句式：①“名词/形容词+as/though+主语+系动词”，注意名词前一般不用冠词；②“副词+as/though+主语+动词”。
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