山东自考-自考英语(一)复习（7）

1. The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New.

在表示河流，海洋，群岛，沙漠等地理名称的名词前，以及以复数形式出现的国名前要用定冠词，例如：the Yellow River(黄河)，the Pacific Ocean(太平洋), the Philippines (菲列宾)

在表示某一座山，岛屿或某一个湖时不用定冠词，例如：Yellow Mountain(黄山)，Lake Erie(伊利湖)，Hainan Island(海南岛)

separate from是常用词组，在句子中的意思是“(使)分离，(使)分开”，请翻译下面的句子：

英吉利海峡把英法两国隔开。(The English Channel separates England from France.)

the Old world指欧，亚，非三洲，有时仅指欧洲。the New (World) 指哥伦布发现的美洲大陆。

2. For centuries it kept the Americas from being discovered by the people of Europe.

keep… from doing 是习惯用法，意思是“使…不…”。

例如：It is really not easy to keep Father from smoking.(要使父亲不抽烟真不容易。)

3. Many wrong ideas about the Atlantic made early sailors unwilling to sail far out into it.

make sb. unwilling to do sth. 意为“使得某人不愿做某事”。例如：His indifference to work made everybody unwilling to cooperate with him.(他对工作的冷漠态度使得所有的人都不愿与他合作。)

主语+动词+宾语+补语(SVOC)的句型在课本第二单元的语法中已有较详细的论述。

4. One idea was that it reached out to “the edge of the world”。

Another idea was that at the equator the ocean would be boiling hot.

这两个都是表语从句和主句中的系动词连用的句子。结构为：主语+系动词+表语从句。请看下面的例句：My idea is that we contact him as soon as possible.(我的想法是我们应该尽快跟他联系。)

请注意辨析another 和other：

another由 an+other构成，只和单数可数名词连用。other可用于所有名词前。another+单数名词表示不定的“另一个”，the other+单数可数名词表示特指的“另一个”。

boiling hot意思是“滚热的，酷热的”。此处的boiling不是形容词而是副词，表示热的程度，修饰hot.

5. Sailors were afraid that they might sail right off the earth.

此句中，that引导的名词从句做宾语。

6. The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific，…

在第一单元中我们讨论过副词的同等比较。本句中as big as 则是形容词的同等比较。在这类句子中，可以有表示程度的状语。例如：

This book is not half as interesting as that one.(这本书还不如那本书一半有趣。)

7. But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers.

suppose 常常做动词用，意思是“假定;猜想;认为”。例如：

I suppose he is very nervous.(我猜想他很紧张。)

在本句中suppose(也可以用supposing)是一个连词，意思是“假设(= if);假使…结果会怎么样”。例如：

Suppose he is ill， what shall we do?(假如他病了，我们怎么办?)

8. It would take the ocean about 4000 years to dry up.

it takes (sb.) some time to do sth. 是很常用的一个句型。例如：

1) 我骑自行车到学校要花半小时。(It takes me half an hour to get to school by bike.)

2) 他花了两个星期时间才看完那本书。(It took him two weeks to finish reading that book.)