新概念英语第三册第12课课堂笔记及答案

Lesson 12
Life on a desert island

【New words and expressions】 生词和短语

★desert island
荒岛
desert: 沙漠　背弃，遗弃
dessert: 甜点

★unrealistic
adj. 不真实

★paradise
n. 天堂，乐士
A lot of people imagine the USA as their paradise.
heaven: 天堂，天国，也指死亡

★wretched
adj. 可怜的，艰苦的
miserable
lead a wretched/miserable/terrible life

★starve
v. 挨饿
starve to death

★element
n. 成分

★opportunity
n. 机会
golden opportunity
Opportunity knocks only once.
chance: 表机会时可以与opportunity互换，表可能性时则不可
There is a chance that I will see him
The chances are that he will be elected the president.
+of,to

★coral
n. 珊瑚

★Virgin Islands
维尔京群岛

★Miami
n. 迈阿密（美国最南的城市）

★dinghy
n. 救生筏，小船

★Caribbean
n. 加勒比海

★spear gun
捕鱼枪

★lobster
n. 龙虾

★tanker
n. 油轮

★genuinely
adv. 由衷地
He is genuinely thankful to me
genuine(adj.)
(n.)genuineness

★Robinson Crusoe
鲁滨孙.克鲁索（小说《鲁滨孙漂流记》主人公） 荒岛生活
【课文讲解】

form an unrealistic picture of sth.: 对……抱有不切实际的幻想
A large number of people have formed an unrealistic picture of the job.

imagine sth.to be./imagine sth.as

quite the opposite: 恰恰相反

Either you or I am going to the party.
谓语动词和最接近的主语保持一致

an element of truth: a bit of truth

optimistic: 乐观的
pessimistic: 消极的，悲观的

wish在谓语动词，其后的宾语从句中要使用虚拟语气
虚拟语气的结构形式取决于所表达的实际情况
　如果表达对现在的遗憾或现在相反的情况，that从句中的动词要采用过去时，be 动词要用were
如果表达对过去的遗憾或过去相反的情况，that从句中的动词要采用过去完成时
I wish I hadn't spent so much money.
I wish that you had written to him
如果表达与将来事实相反的情况或将来不可能实现的心愿，that从句中要使用would ,could 等情态动词的过去时
　I wish that I could go abroad tomorrow.
I wish that you could come here tomorrow
if only要比wish更富有戏剧性和感情色彩
If only the weather would change.
I wish the weather would change.
We wish that we knew where to look for him.
If only we knew where to look for him.
If only we could have gone to the party.
If only you hadn't said that.
If only you would come here tommorrow.

have sth.repaired

load with: 把……装载到……上
The workers are loading the truck with goods.
unload: 卸

hardly any: very little/few
Hardly anybody likes him because he is so rude.
You hardly eat anything,what

's wrong?

prove to be=turn out to be

put: express

If only we could have stayed on the desert island a little bit longer.

【Special difficulties】

wish,if only;
(1) ...had bought it...
显然说明的是过去的情况　"was"

(2) ...couldn't/wouldn't make such noise...

(3) ...were here...
强调“他在这儿，该有多好”
运用be动词，说明现在情况相反的概念
无论什么人称，be动词应该使用were

(4) ...could play the piano as well...

(5) ...had studied hard then...
"studied" ---过去式

(6) ...hadn't mentioned it to him...
"mentioned" -- 过去式

【Multiple choice questions】

(1) ...C...
要么是过度乐观，要么是过度的悲观

(2) ...d...
essential = very necessary 绝对必要的，必不可缺的

(3) ...a...
fend for oneself: 独立的照料某人
虚拟语气

(4) ...b...
think of sb./sth.as: 把某人、某事看作为...

(5) ...d...
"few of us": 我们当中，没有几个人

(6) ...c...
after介词，其后要和名词、动名词搭配
and前后连接的并列成分，时态是应该相呼应的。
"They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food,matches,and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribean until they arrived at tiny coral island" 一般过去时的形式
after引导的时间状语从句，表示动作在前

(7) ...c...
在表示类指概念的时候，可以采用名词的复数形式；或者运用名词的单数形式，注意冠词的修饰。　(a tree,the tree)
Refrigerators are useful.== A refrigerator is useful.

(8) ...c...
为做过的事情后悔：regret + 动名词

(9) ...b...
inhabited: 有人居住的
uninhabited：无人居住的
unpopular：不流行的
barren: 贫瘠的

(10) ...d...
完全不同的

(11) ...d...

; "this did not prove to be a problem"
觉得、发现某人或某事怎么样：find sb./sth. to be
They found the trip to be interesting/very exciting.
某人或某事被发现怎么样　……常用被动语态
The car is found to be beautiful.
demonstrate: 论证，表明，举行，示威

(12) ...a...
"as one of them put it"