p2languagepoints.pptVIP

3. above all 首先，尤其，最重要的是=most important of all; especially,强调程度。 first of all 首先，第一，强调顺序，相当于at first at first 最初 for the first time 第一次；在句中作时间状语。 the first time 第一次……时，用作连词，引导时间状语从句。 e.g. 1) He longs above all to see his family again. 2) First of all, let me thank you for your present. 3) At first it was very hot, but then it got cooler. 4) I came to this school for the first time. 5) The first time I came to this school, I didn’t know how to get along with some one else. 4. come true实现，成真，达到；（不能用于被动） 当我赢得了那笔钱时，我的全部梦想似乎都成真了。 When I won all that money it was as if all my dreams had come true. 2. by chance意外地，偶然地；碰巧 1）他们在飞机上不期而遇。 　　They met by chance on a plane. 2）我意外地发现了那件珠宝。 　　I found the jewel by chance. 3）他碰巧是她哥哥吗？ Is he, by chance, her brother? get a chance 得到机会 give sb. a chance 给某人一次机会 by any chance 万一；碰巧 by some chance 由于偶然的机会 chance on/ upon 碰巧遇见，偶然发现 on the chance of 怀着……的希望，期望能 We went to the cinema on the chance of seeing Peter there. sb. chances to do 碰巧…… I chanced to be out when he called. It chanced that… 碰巧…… It chanced that I was out when he called. or so; about 大约 注意: or so 放在它所修饰的词后面，而about 放在被修饰词前。 e.g. There are twenty or so. There are about twenty. 大约有二十个。 e.g. We stayed for three hours or so. We stayed for about three hours. 我们大约停留了不得3个小时。 (13) However, the band broke up in about 1970, but reunited in the mid-1980s. break up The party broke up when the police arrived. 解散 The little boy broke up the radio to see what was wrong with it. 拆散 When will school break up for winter vocation? 学校放假 The meeting broke up at 11 o’clock. 结束 Police came to break up the crowd. 强行驱散 break down The car broke down halfway. His plan broke down when it was put into practice. 破产 break into 突然闯入,强行进入 His house was broken into by burglars last week. break out (战争，灾难)突然爆发 (14) base sth．on/upon sth． 　be based on/upon sth. e.g. The story is based on his own experience. Many writers base their novels on their own ex