【2019年10月16日 百天英语-Day85】
【华东师范大学-林森撰写】
今日阅读:①The hunt for the puma begin in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw ‘a large cat ’ only five yards away from her.②It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered.③The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty mails away in the evening.④Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
节选《新概念英语3-A puma at large》第二段
文章解读:Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
今天学习内容从第二段第④句开始,前面内容均已经讲解,如有需要请看往期:
(1)wherever引导的地点状语从句状语的主要作用就是来说明句子中的动词,动作发生时的地点、时间、原因、目的、结果、条件、方式等用法。
今天我主要讲一个关于地点状语的使用,其他用法在用到的时候再讲。
引导地点状语从句的主要是两个单词:where和wherever。比如家里小孩要出门,妈妈会经常嘱咐到
Wherever you go, you should tell me.
无论你去哪,你都得告诉我。
当使用where来引导地点状语时
It is colder here than where we stayed yesterday. 这里比我们昨天待的地方冷。
(2)it left behind it a trail of …这句话可能有点看不太明白的地方就是behind it为什么在这句子中间。这句话的一般语序为it left a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits behind it.但是考虑到left后的宾语太长了,就把behind it前置,使读者更容易知道后面一长串宾语所表示的状态。
在这个句子中,left是leave的过去式。词组为:leave sth. behind表示把……留在身后,也可以解释为忘记带某物。比如
The storm left a heap of destruction behind it. 风暴过后,留下了大量毁坏物。
(3)a number of 用来表示“若干”用于修饰可数名词,当其用来修饰主语的时候,要记得动词要变成复数形式。A number of voters are not sure yet whether they want to vote for him.
一些选民目前还不确定他们是否要投他的票。
(4)… was found clinging to bushes.补足语的用法。在这个句子中,clinging to bushes为现在分词短语作主语的补足语。
①主语补足语
在带有主语被语的句子中,谓语一般是被动语态。而做主补的成分可以是名词及其短语,形容词及其短语,动词不定式及其短语,过去分词及其短语等。比如:
This process is called evaporation.这种过程叫作蒸发。(名词主补)
They were seen playing videogames. (有人)见到他们在玩电子游戏。(现在分词主补)
②宾语补足语
We saw them playing videogames. 我们曾见到他们在玩电子游戏。(现在分词宾补)
(5)cling的用法cling作为不及物动词,后跟to 宾语的形式。
cling to除了能表示“粘在……上”外,一般也可解释为“坚持做某事”
We should cling to our principles.
我们应该坚持自己的原则。
cling to the last hope 抱定最后希望。
【明日预报】摘要:明天我们继续后面的内容,主要内容有complain报怨、convince使……深信的用法等。