and at this point, according to my father, I should be looking at farms and cottages in a valley, with the spire of the church of our village showing in the far distance.
照父亲的说法,我面前应是一个山谷,有农场与村舍,还可远远望见老家村子里的教堂的尖顶。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 57 Back in the old country
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 点;要点;得分;标点;
vt. (意思上)指向;削尖;加标点于;指路;
vi. 表明;指向;
💡 point(prick)→点;地点;目的;时刻;使锐利;指示
"Racial tension has reached boiling point ."
种族间的紧张状态已达到一触即发的程度。
近义:range, aim, hone, sharpen, strap, strop
n. 村民;乡村,村庄;群落;
💡 vill=villa茅房,别墅+age场所,物品 →村庄
"The road continues beyond the village up into the hills."
那条路经过村子后又往上延伸到群山中。
近义:town, townlet, borough, locality, hamlet, peasant
反义:settlement, town, burg, municipal, urban, city
n. 距离,路程;远处;疏远;(时间的)间隔,长久;
vt. 把…远远甩在后面;疏远;与…保持距离;
💡 dist距离 + ance 表名词,状态、情况、性质、行为 → n.距离,间距;远处
"A peal of church bells rang out in the distance."
远处响起了一阵教堂的钟声。
近义:isolation, separation, estrangement, aloofness, distantial, separate
反义:approximate, abut, immediacy, nearness, neighborhood, neighbourhood
adv. 依照;
v. 给予( accord的现在分词 );使和谐一致;使符合;使适合;
💡 according→accord(v. 相一致)+ing→依照- 根据
"According to Mick, it's a great movie."
据米克说,这是一部了不起的电影。
近义:applicable, appropriate, apt, meet, pat, proper
n. 父亲;祖先;(尤指天主教和东正教的)神父;天父;
vt. 成为父亲;创立(新思想);创造;发明(新方法);
💡 她的(her) 父亲很胖(fat) 网友:BOB 补充:分解:胖胖的(fat)坐在椅子(h象形)上的那个人(er表示人)是我的父亲
"his father's agonizing death"
他父亲极度痛苦的死
近义:reproduce, breed, adopt, ingenerate, sire, beget
反义:boy, child, descendant