宝宝教育
Unit 1 Discovering yourlf Active reading 1 Catching crabs
Language points
1. The relaxed atmosphere of the preceding summer mester, the impromptu ball games, the boating on the Charles River, …and we all started to get our head down studying late, and attendance at class, ro steeply again.
1) preceding adj [only before noun] formal happening or coming before the time, place, or part mentioned= previous≠ following
preceding days/weeks/months/yearsincome tax paid in preceding years
preceding chapter/paragraph/page etcthe diagram in the preceding chapter
2) Impromptu impromptu = spontaneous
An impromptu action is one that you do without planning or organizing it in advance.
二十四节气小雪This afternoon the Palestinians held an impromptu press conference.
The children put on an impromptu concert for the visitors.
3) get your过期啤酒的十大妙用 head down (British & Australian)
to work hard at something that involves reading or writing
I'm sure I can finish the article - I just need to get my head down this afternoon. get/put your head down to sleep for a short while
I'm just going to put my head down for an hour - I feel so tired.
2. …and guys wore the bags under their eyes…
“眼袋”---- “bags under the eyes”或者“under-eye bags” “黑眼圈”可表达为“dark under-eye circles”。
“black eye”。注意了！此“黑眼圈”并非真的黑，而是指眼上挨拳头后因淤血而产生的青紫色。
洗银水When John got into a fight, he got a black eye.（约翰因打架得了个熊猫眼。）
3. It wasn’t always the high flyers with the top grades who knew what they were going to do. Quite often it was the quieter, less impressive students who had the next stages of their life mapped out.
High-flyers, sometimes spelled high-fliers, are people who have achieved notable success, especially tho who have become successful more quickly than is normal. The term is also ud to describe speculative stock that has reached a high price in a short time.
map out [map sth⇔out] phr vto plan carefully how something will happen
Her own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents.
4. One had landed a job in his brother’s advertising firm in Madison Avenue, another had got a script under provisional acceptance in Hollywood.
Land a job18k铂金【JOB/CONTRACT ETC】 [T] informalto succeed in getting a job, contract etc that was difficult to get He landed a job with a law firm.
长寿面什么时候吃land yourlf sth Bill's just landed himlf a part in a Broadway show.
land sb in trouble/hospital/court etc to cau someone to have rious problems or be in a difficult situation
Connie's going to land herlf in big trouble if she keeps arriving late for work.
She developed pneumonia which landed her in hospital.
land sb in it BrE spoken informal to get someone into trouble by telling other people that they did something wrong = drop somebody in it
Geoff landed me in it by saying I should have checked that the door was locked.
provisional adj formal likely or able to be changed in the future
a provisional government We accept provisional bookings by phone.
>provisionally advThe meeting has been provisionally arranged for the end of May.
5. 空中乘务I braced mylf for some resistance to the idea.
brace 1 v to mentally or physically prepare yourlf or someone el for something unpleasant that is going to happen
brace yourlf (for sth)Nancy braced herlf for the inevitable arguments. You had better brace yourlf - I have some bad news. The military needs to brace itlf for further spending cuts, says McCoy.
brace yourlf to do sth指战员
Cathy braced herlf to e Matthew, who she expected to arrive at any minute.
be braced for sthThe ba was braced for an attack.
to push part of your body against something solid in order to make yourlf more steady
brace sth against sth Gina braced her back against the wall and pushed as hard as she could.
brace yourlf (for sth) Before he could brace himlf she'd shoved him out of the door.
The pilot told pasngers and crew to brace themlves for a rough landing.
to make something stronger by supporting itWait until we've braced the ladder. Workers ud steel beams to brace the roof.
to make your body or part of your body stiff in order to prepare to do something difficult
6. It was a small motor boat, moored ten minutes away, and my father had owned it for years.
If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. (=tie up) She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river. I decided to moor near some tourist boats.
moor 1.moor moors
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. (mainly BRIT) Colliford is higher, right up on the moors. Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor. N-VAR
2.moor moors mooring moored = tie up
If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river. I decided to moor near some tourist boats.
3.moor moors
The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th century A.D. N-COUNT: usu pl
