PETS三级考试重点句型及考点练习(11)

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　　1、He is famous for vigorously opposing the use of chemicals to kill pets.

　　这个句子中重点解析的是 vigorously opposing 并翻译这句话。

　　注意的词语：vigorously opposing积极反对

　　翻译为：他因为积极反对用化学品杀宠物而出名。

　　2、What would you recommend for a tenth-grader?

　　这个句子中重点解析的是tenth-grader到底是十年级的学生，还是十岁的小孩?

　　tenth-grade是“十年级”，所以tenth-grader当然是“十年纪的学生”了。十岁的小孩是：teenager

　　3、They used Singapore as a microcosm for examining a regionwide tropical biodiversity crisis,

　　这个句子中重点解析的是and compiled population data from the past two centuries.

　　翻译为：他们用新加坡作为检查热带地区的区域性的生活差异危机一个缩影，并用过去两个世纪(的历史)来编纂人口数据。

　　其中biodiversity是由前缀bio-和diversity组合而成的，意思是生命的差异性。

　　4、Animals that call the forest home have suffered enormously.

　　这个句子中重点解析的是"call"在这句话的意思。

　　call称为，当作。

　　翻译为：以森林为家的动物们受到了巨大的灾难。

　　5、American and Europe will pool research into hydrogen-powered fuel cells.

　　这个句子中重点解析的是"pool"在这句话的意思。

　　pool集中投入，pool的名词意思是“池塘”，动词本义是“汇合成塘”的意思，这里用的是比喻义，想象一下不难理解的。

　　翻译为：美国和欧洲将集中注资到氢燃料电池的研究中。

　　练习:

　　On the day the World Trade Center fell, the Empire state Building once again became the tallest building in New York City. In the months that followed, six of its commercial tenants ran off. They did not want to be in the tallest anything, anywhere, anymore. At a time when U.S. Vice president Dick Cheney was still being shuttled around to undisclosed locations, skyscrapers suddenly seemed like the most disclosed locations. For a while, it looked as though the tall building, at least in the U.S., might be one more casualty of war.

　　Three years later, despite fears of terrorist attacks, big is beautiful again. On July 4, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided at the World Trade Center site. New skyscraper projects are under way once more elsewhere in the city and around the U.S. Meanwhile, outside the states, where the taste for tall buildings never really faded, the skyscraper has also been poking its head up in very different ways, and not just for reasons having to do with security. Since the 1990s, tall buildings have been reshaped by a number of global architecture stars whose vision is finally beginning to penetrate the more conservation American market.

　　Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s temporary outpost in Queens, New York. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some of more than 4 m high), “Tall buildings”, a show that runs at MOMA through Sept.27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has eyolyed the early 1990s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing-and even producing, but usually in other nations-buildings that don’t resemble the dull boxes that crowd most American downtowns.

　　Engineering is, among others, a path to new kinds of beauty. Just look at Renzo piano’s London Bridge Tower, a slender glass pyramid that forms a glittering stalagmite against the old city’s skyline. You get a grasp of what ingenious engineering is all about from the London Headquarters of the insurance firm Swiss Re, designed by Norman Foster. Even before it opened in April, it was known as the small cucumber because it rises against the sky like a green pickle. But the building’s single feature is the inclusion of larger interior gardens throughout. But there’s a dematerializing spirit even in a building that didn’t requiring new fears of engineering-the Arcos Bosques Corporativo in Mexico City, an arched tower with a vertical slot down its center that lightens the building’s mass brings the sky itself into play.

　　“Not only did American invent skyscraper”, says the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava, “it invented the skyline.” But American skylines have got a little dull. With some work, the world’s architects might bring them back to a very tall standard.

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