Unit1 Greeting and Introduction
Dialogue  3
(P4)  One morning, Mary saw someone who looked like a businessman standing at the tie counter．一天早上，玛丽看到一位商人模样的人站在领带柜台前。
英语中有些表示感觉的动词，如：see, notice, watch, hear等可以用于下列结构中：see／notice／watch／hear sb. do sth．和see／notice／watch／hear sb. doing sth．，但两者意义上有区别。
Unit1 Greeting and Introduction
Dialogue  3
(P4)  One morning, Mary saw someone who looked like a businessman standing at the tie counter．一天早上，玛丽看到一位商人模样的人站在领带柜台前。
1)see sb．do sth．
例如：I saw him cross the street.我看见他过马路了。
2)see sb. doing sth．看见某人正在做什么，它强调动作正在进行。例如：I saw him crossing the street．
Unit1 Greeting and Introduction
Dialogue  3
(P4)  7. When the man was about to step on a magnificent Rolls-Royce, Mary went up to him and said…就在他要一脚踏进一辆富丽堂皇的劳斯莱斯时，玛丽走上前对他说…
be about to do sth．即将，就要。 uneventful
例如：Her father is about to retire．
她的父亲即将退休。
Unit1 Greeting and Introduction
Dialogue  3
(P4)  8. Mary produced her identity card indicating that she was a store detective and she insisted on having a look into the man's briefcase.玛丽出示了她的身份证来证明她是商店的侦探，并坚持检查那位男子的公文包。
1)produce拿出，出示。例如：Can you produce any proof of your nationality?你能出示证明你国藉的任何证件吗？
2)insist（常与on, that连用）主张；坚持。例如：
The teacher always insists on the importance of being punctual．
Dialogue  4
(P5)  9. Many of Jules Verne's attempts to look into the future, however, were surprisingly accurate．
然而，儒勒•凡尔纳对未来进行探究的许多尝试精确得令人惊讶。
However adv．
He hasn't arrived．He may，however，come later.
However, it is not always the case．
He didn't invite her to the party，however．
Passage
P5  Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in．
境况通常是一团糟，生活的困苦已积聚成一个像奥普莱•温弗里生长的单亲家庭所不堪承受的重负。
1)accumulate v.积累，积存，例如：
He accumulated a good library.
2)Oprah Winfrey grew up in是定语从句，省略了关系代词which，修饰先行词the one。
Passage
P5  The state in which she was born had law in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social activities…
她的出身使得早就有现成的规则将她定为“不受欢迎的人”，禁止她参加向其他人开放的社会活动…
1)characterize vt．表现…的特，刻画…的性格，例如：This kind of behavior characterizes the criminal mind．
这种举止是罪犯的心理特征。
characterize sb. as sth．将某人描述成…，把某人当作…
Passage
P5  The state in which she was born had law in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social activities…
她的出身使得早就有现成的规则将她定为“不受欢迎的人”，禁止她参加向其他人开放的社会活动…
2)bar v．
A)用闩关住。He barred the door.他闩上了门。
B)禁止。例如：He has been barred from playing for one year because of his using excitant．
他因服用兴奋剂被罚停赛已有一年了。
Passage
P5  12. In hindsight, it appears that her birth was an uneventful one．
事后看来，她的出生平淡无奇。
appear vi．看来；似乎，后接形容词和动词不定式。
She appeared very tired．她显得很疲劳。
He appears to want to leave．他看来要走。
Passage
P6  13. Upon discovering books, the child delved into the written word, turning out weekly book reports for her father．
一发现书籍的妙处，这个孩子就一头扎进书堆，每周向她的父亲提交读书报告。
1)turning out weekly book reports for her father现在分词短语表示伴随动作。
2)upon/on+动名词，
例如：Upon／on reaching home, he went to call on his old friends.
他刚回到家里，便去拜访老朋友。
Passage
P6  14. That the world has changed in meaningful ways since 1954 is beyond question．毫无疑问，自1954年来，世界发生了意义深远的变化。
beyond question无可争辩。
例如：His honesty is beyond question．他的诚实无可怀疑。
Passage
P6  15. That may also be partly due to the very special energy that…部分原因可以归功于奥普莱•温弗里的特殊力量…
1)due to因为；由…引起；由于。
例如：Her illness was due to bad food．
2)very（加强语气）就是，正是。例如：
The very idea of cheating people again is distasteful to him．
他一想到还要欺骗人就感到很不是滋味。