新概念第三册Lesson 5.ppt

Lesson 5 The facts 1. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. ★editor n.编辑 edit vt.编辑 -- edit magazine, edit newspaper edition n.编辑 editorial adj.编辑的, 主编的 n.社论, 评论 ★extreme n.极端 go to extreme(s) to do… 做某事走极端 go from one extreme to the other 从一个极端走向另一个极端 ★provide = supply 给...提供（通常与介词搭配连用） 　provide sb. with sth. / provide sth. for sb. 　-- He provided them with a bed for the night. 　= He provided a bed for them for the night. 2. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the presidents palace in a new African republic. ★journalist n.新闻记者 reporter n.(电视台)记者 correspondent n.(电台)记者, 通讯员 ★instruct vt.教, 教导, 命令, 指示, 通知 instruct sb. to do sth. = tell sb. formally to do sth.指示/吩咐某人做某事　　 ★republic n.共和国, 共和政体 a new African republic非洲一个新成立的共和国 3. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. ★refuse vt.拒绝（态度严厉） 　decline vt.婉言谢绝 　repudiate vt.断然拒绝 ★publish v.出版 = print(vt.), go to press(vi.) 　-- The book has already been published. = The book has already been printed. 　-- The book has gone to press. 　-- They have already published the magazine. 6. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. ★set out to do = set about doing决定, 打算, 着手做... (带着某种特殊目的) decide and try to do begin to do sth. 描述某种状态的开始，反义词end start to do sth. 强调动作，反义词为stop E.g. They set out to write a book on Chinese history. I begin to recover confidence. ★sb. take + 时间 + to do sth. =it takes sb.+ 时间 + to do sth. He took a long time to send them. =It took him a long time to send them. 7. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. ★meanwhile强调两个动作同时进行。 ★ Be getting impatient是用现在进行时态强调前后的情绪变化。 ★impatient adj.不耐烦的 impatience impatiently patient(有耐心的) patience patiently be impatinet to do sth.急不可耐地做某事 E.g. I a