1. rather than

表示客观事实，意为“是……而不是……; 与其……不如……”。它连接的并

列成分可以是名词、代词、形容词、介词 (短语)、动名词、分句、不定式、动词等。

1) 连接两个名词或代词

He is an explorer rather than a sailor. 与其说他是一个海员, 不如说他是一个探险者。 You rather than I are going to go camping.是你而不是我要去要野营。

注意: rather than 连接两个名词或代词作主语时, 谓语动词应与rather than 前面的名词或代

词在人称和数上保持一致。

2) 连接两个形容词

The sweater she bought was beautiful rather than cheap.

与其说她买的这件羊毛衫便宜不如说它漂亮。

3) 连接两个介词(短语)或动名词 ：

We will have the meeting in the classroom rather than in the great hall.

我们是在教室里开会，不是在大厅里。

She enjoys singing rather than dancing. 她喜欢唱歌，而不喜欢跳舞。

4) 连接两个分句 ： We should help him rather than he should help us.

5) 连接两个不定式 ：I decided to write rather than (to) telephone.我决定写信而不打电话。

注意: rather than 后接不定式时, 不定式可以带to, 也可以不带to, 如上句。但 rather than位于句首时, 则只能接不带to 的不定式。如:

Rather than allow the vegetables to go bad, he sold them at half price.

他唯恐蔬菜烂掉, 把它们以半价卖掉了。

6) 连接两个动词：He ran rather than walked. 他是跑来的，而不是走来的。

注意: 这里rather than 后用了walked, 而没有用walk, 表示客观事实, 而不是主观愿望。 如果换成 walk, 则作“宁愿……而不愿 ……”解。

拓展：would rather do A than do B = would do A rather than do B 宁可做A而不做B

prefer to do A rather than do B 最喜欢做A而不做B

or rather更确切地说 other than除……外

would rather sb. did/had done sth. 宁愿某人做某事

2. settle down 定居;平静下来;专心于

1) Wait until the children settle down before you start the lesson.

你等学生都静下心来再开始上课。

2) I’m glad to learn that you’ve settled down in Beijing. 得知你定居北京，我很高兴。

3) With so much noise around，I couldn’t settle down to my work.

周围有那么多噪音，我不能静下心来专心工作。

拓展：settle an old score清算旧帐 settle for sth. 勉强接受

settle in/into sth. 适应 settle on sth. 选定, 决定

settle down to doing sth. 使……安下心来做某事

settle (down) in ... 在……定居下来

settle a dispute/an argument/an issue解决争端/争论/问题

3. manage to do sth 设法做

拓展：manage to do sth.= succeed in doing sth. 设法做成某些困难的事

attempt to do sth.=try to do sth. = seek to do sth. 设法做某事(不一定做成)

1) In spite of these insults, she managed not to get angry.

她尽管受到这些侮辱，还是忍着没发火。

2) Though we left home very late，we managed to catch the last bus.

尽管我们出门很晚，但我们赶上了末班车。

4. catch sight of看见;瞥见

拓展：lose sight of 看不见 keep sight of 使能看得到;保持看得到的距离

at (the) sight of初次见到时;乍看上去 have good/poor sight/eyesight 视力好/差

in/within sight 可以看见;在视线内 out of sight 看不见;在视线外 1) She said that she caught sight of me in the crowd. 她说她在人群中一下子就看见了我。

2) Suddenly they got separated, and then lost sight of each other.突然,他们分开了,看不见彼此。

3) At first sight their demands seemed reasonable. 乍看起来，他们的要求似乎满合理的。

5. have a gift for... 在……方面有天分/天赋 拓展：gift 特指与生俱来的天份或才能, 如绘画、音乐等。

have a gift for (doing) sth.= have the gift to do sth. 对……有天赋;有做某事的才能

a man of excellent gifts一个非常有才华的人

a gifted/talented person 一个有天赋的、有才华的人

1) He has a gift for music. 他有音乐天才。

2) You have the gift/talent to learn foreign languages. 你有学外语的天赋。

3) Her gift for dancing amazed the teacher. 老师对她舞蹈的天份大感惊奇。

III. Sentences 1. It is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall, some measuring over 90 meters.

那里空气湿润，因而树木长得相当高，有的超过90米。

1) so...that… 如此……以致于……,后跟结果状语从句，常用too… to…来变为简单句，如： She was so angry that she couldn’t say a word. = She was too angry to say a word.

她太气愤以致于说不出话来。

辨析：so...that与such...that

so...that与such...that意思一致，that均引导结果状从句，但是so为副词，such为形容词，所以二者所接词不一样的。

① so +adj. / adv. + that从句或so +adj. + a(n) + 单名+ that从句

She is so good a teacher that we all love her. 她是一位如此好老师以致于我们都爱她。 ② such + adj. + 复名 + that从句或such + a(n) + 单名+ that从句

She is such a good teacher that we all love her. 她是一位如此好老师以致于我们都爱她。 提示：在so十much/many/little/few + n. +that从句结构中，little当“少”讲，接在so

之后，但当little当“小”讲时，应接在such之后。如：

They are such little children that they can’t look after themselves.

他们是那么小的孩子还不能自理。

2) some measuring over 90 meters为独立主格结构，在句中作伴随状语。可表示时间、原因、条件、行为、方式或伴随情况。其构成：名词(代词) + 现在分词/过去分词/形容词/副词/不定式/介词短语。如：

(1) 作时间状语

The meeting over，we all went home happily. 会议结束了，我们都高兴地回家了。

(2) 作原因状语 My watch having been lost, I didn’t know what time it was.

我的手表丢了，所以我不知道现在什么时间。

(3) 作条件状语Time permitting，we’ll have a dictation. 如果时间允许，我们就听写。

(4) 描述伴随行为或补充说明

He lay on his back，his eyes looking straight upward. 他躺在那儿，眼睛直盯着前方。

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