(单词翻译:单击)
重点词汇词组
1.at any rate 无论如何，不管怎样
例：Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
哼，无论如何我都不会步行回家。
相关俚语：
①at a rate of knots 很快地，迅速地
例：She got through her work at a rate of knots.
她很快做完了工作。
②at this rate 照此情形，如此下去
例：At this rate, we won't be home until midnight.
照这样下去，我们得半夜才能到家。
2.think ill of 把……往坏处想
例：Don't think ill of any one.
别把别人想得太坏。
常见搭配：
①speak ill of sb. 说（某人）的坏话
例：I realize one shouldn't speak ill of the dead.
我认识到不应该说死人的坏话。
②can ill afford (to do sth.) 经不起（做……）；一旦……就会遇麻烦
例：We can ill afford to lose another member of staff.
我们可经不起再失去一位员工了。
3.in question 正被谈论的……，有关的
例：Add up all the income you've received over the period in question.
把相关时期内你获得的所有收入加起来。
相关俚语：
①be a question of doing sth. 有必要做……
例：It's just a question of working hard for a month and then you can relax.
那就只需努力工作1个月，然后你就可以休息了。
②be out of the question 不可能
例：A trip to New Zealand is out of the question this year.
今年去新西兰旅行是不可能的了。
4.in proportion to (与……) 成比例地
例：The chart shows how weight increases in proportion to height.
图表表明了体重是如何随身高成正比例上升的。
常见搭配：out of all proportion to (与……) 完全不成比例
例：The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.
惩罚和罪行完全不成比例。
相关俚语：blow sth. out of proportion 对（事情或问题）小题大做
例：Of course, when the papers get hold of a story, it's blown out of all proportion.
当然了，一旦报纸知道了一则传闻，就会大肆渲染一番。
长难句解析
He1 had found2 the law3 a most unprofitable study, and was4 now absolutely resolved5 on being ordained6, if I would present him to the living in question7 -- of which he trusted there could be little doubt8, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions9.
解：1主语+2谓语+3宾语+4系动词+5表语+6宾语+7条件状语从句+8定语从句+9原因状语从句
析：“of which he trusted there could be little doubt”是定语从句，关系代词which指代前面提到的“我荐举他去当牧师”这件事；“as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions”是原因状语从句，其中“that I had no other person to provide for”是宾语从句。
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