商务英语入门学习相关文化背景介绍

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⑻ settle v. 使定居;安排

例句:They got married and settled near Beijing.

译文:他们结婚并在北京附近定居下来。

⑼ differ v. 不同;有异

例句:Our opinions differ greatly from each other in that aspect.

译文:我们在那方面的意见有很大的出入。

⑽ identify v. 认出;鉴定

例句:She was asked to identify the criminal.

译文:她被要求辨认犯罪。

3、 核心短语讲解:

⑴ depend on 取决于;依赖于

后面通常接sb./sth., 意思是依赖于某人/某物,或取决于某人/某物。例如:

My success depends on my friend’s support.

Whether we go to school or not depends on the weather.

⑵ consist of 由。。。构成,由。。。组成

后面可以接sth.,意思是由某事物组成或构成。但一般不用于进行时态。例如:

This club consists of 50 members.

The book consists of five chapters.

⑶ get round to 抽出时间做某事

后面接sth. Or doing sth. ,同义词组为 get around to sth./ doing sth. 。例如:

Can you get round to reading this novel?

I hope I will get round to go shopping with you next week.

⑷ proud of 自豪的,荣耀的

后面可接人或者物,意思是‘为。。。感到自豪’。例如:

She is proud of her new house.

Are they proud of their success?

⑸ on the other hand 另一方面通常与 on the one hand 连用,表示事物的两个方面或两种情况。例如:

This book, on the other hand, provides very good ideas.

On the one hand, he feel lonely, on the other hand, he makes many friends.

4、 核心句型讲解:

⑴ A stairway led to the second floor, which in small homes was an undivided sleeping room and in larger homes was divided into small bedrooms.

讲解:which 后面是由and 连接的两个分句,在这里which引导的非限制性定语从句,说明the second floor 在不同房间里的不同存在方式。例如:

I like this new car, which was bought three days ago.

⑵ The roof was specially designed to create as much living space as possible on the second floor.

讲解:design 指‘设计’,后面接不定式 to create , 表示设计成什么样式。as much… as possible 指‘尽可能地多。。。’。例如:

I clean my storeroom in order to create as much room as possible.

⑶ Since a house was impossible for one person to build, several people would work together to build it.

讲解:常用句型 It is impossible for sb. to do sth. , 是指‘某人做某事不可能的’。 Since 的常用意思是‘自从,自。。。以来’,在这个句子里是指‘由于,因为’,引导的是一个原因状语从句。例如:

Since she is very young, she can’t understand what happened.

5、 重点语法知识讲解:

被动结构和带表语的结构的区别

‘动词be+过去分词’这个结构并不一定都是被动结构,有时它可能是be +表语。这两种结构的主要区别是:被动结构表示一个动作,带表语的结构表示主要的特点或所处的状态。例如:

The enemy was soon surrounded by us. (被动结构)

The house is surrounded by trees. (表语结构)

Our plan has been upset. (被动结构)

She was terribly upset. (表语结构)

特别说明:这一区分可以帮助我们决定用什么时态,如果是被动结构,它的时态一般要与相应的主动结构相一致;如果是表语结构,多用一般时态。例如:‘玻璃杯坏了’表示的是状态,因此可译为‘The glass is broken’, 这时用的是一般现在时。如果说‘杯子是妹妹打破的’,表示的是一个动作,这时就不能用一般现在时,因为相应的主动结构不可能用一般现在时。当然,带表语的结构用其他时态的情况也是有的,例如:How long has she been here? 这时表示的是一个延续到现在的状态。

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