Unit 2 English around the world
Words and expressions:
1 .voyage n. [C] 航行；航海
He was a young sailor on his first a voyage.
travel, journey, trip，voyage& tour的区别
travel 用作不可数名词, 只用于泛指从某地去另一地, 如果某人在某段时间里
到处走, 可用 travels;
journey 用作可数名词, 表示去某地所花的时间和旅行的距离, 尤指较长距离的或定期的旅行;
trip 用作可数名词, 表示非定期的, 也许较短的往返旅行;
voyage 则常指海上旅行或太空旅行。
tour指以游览、观光、购物等目的的旅行。也指巡视。巡回比赛或演出
It’s a long ____________ from here to Hong Kong.
It’s only three hours’ ________________ from here
He wrote a book about his __________ in South Africa.
When i give up work, I shall make a long __________ at a.
The band is on ___________ in France
2 becau of: as a result of 因为; 由于
Many beautiful fish are fast disappearing ________________ the vere pollution.
因为污染严重，许多美丽的鱼类正在面临绝种。
The police are advising motorists to reduce speed ______________ the fog.
由于有雾，警察告诫驾车者减慢速度。
We win the game _______________his participation.
由于他的参与，我们赢了比赛。
becau of / becau
I went back not ____________ the rain, but __________ I was tired.
3. native:__________________________
None of our teachers are native speakers of English.
a native-speaker dictionary
4 come up: v.
(1). 走近
A young girl came up to me and asked for money.
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(2). 提出
What points came up at the meeting?
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The teacher came up with a good plan for the summer vocation.
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(3). 发生
I’ve got to go - something has just come up at home and I’m needed there.
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(4). 临近
My exams are coming up soon
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come on _______________________
come out ________________________
come up _______________________
come true _______________________
come up with _______________________
5 at prent 目前
"Are you busy?" "Not at prent."
At prent she's working abroad.
I have no enough material in hand at prent. _____________________________________
vt. 赠与, 赠给予, 给, 提出
prent sb. with sth.或 prent sth. to sb.
把……交给, 颁发, 授予
E.g.妈妈刚刚赠与我一件礼物。
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On his birthday, his friends prented him with a ries of readers /prented a ries of readers to him.
(送给他一套读本)
6 gradually adv 逐渐地
A Gradually, she realized that he wasn't telling her the truth.
B The bank slopes gradually down to the river.
7 vocabulary n. [C]词汇量
a wide / limited vocabulary
By the age of two a child will have a vocabulary of about two hundred words.
8 make u of sth. 利用；使用 make the best of? make the most of 充分利用
翻译：我们应该充分利用时间去努力学习。
She makes u of people she meets as raw material for her fiction.
她把她所遇见的人们作为她创作小说的素材。
9 the latter n. 后者
She offered me more money or a car and I cho the latter.
Compare the former (FIRST).
10. identity n. 本身；本体；身份
分析下列词的不同意思：
（1）The man’s identity was being kept cret while he was helping police.
（2）I cannot reveal（揭露） the identity of my source（材料）.
（3）The informant(线人)was given a new identity (= a different name and new official documents) for protection.
I think my job gives me a n of identity
11 fluent adj. 流利的；流畅的
（1）She’s fluent in French.
（2）He speaks fluent Chine.
He’s a fluent Russian speaker.
fluently adv.流利地；流畅地
I'd like to speak English fluently.
12 such as: for example 例如; 诸如.
I know many of them, such as John, Peter and Tom.
The Roman languages such as French, Italian, are all derived from Latin.
拉丁语系, 例如法语, 意大利语, 都起源于拉丁语。
辨析for example, such as, like 的区别
for example意思是 举个例子来说,一般只举同类人或物中的“一个”为例，作插入语，用逗号隔开，可置于句首、句中、句末；
such as意思是 比如…，后面不加逗号,直接列举同类人或物中的几个例子，不能穷尽，可和and so on连用；
like表示列举，可和such as互换。
Noi，for example，is a kind of pollution．
举例说明，噪音就是一种污染。
China has many big cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and so on．= China has many such big cities like Beijing，Shanghai， Shenzhen and so on．中国有许多大城市，
比如北京、上海、深圳等等。
