Week 58

DAY281

L57-1: Back in the old country

I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map. I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me. I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was 18 years ago. When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness.Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound.

知识点：

单词：

alien/ˈeiliən/n.外国人的，外星人的

be alien to sb

be foreign to sb 格格不入的

exotic/ igˈzɔtik/外国的，新奇漂亮的，褒义词

continually 频繁发生，贬义词

辨析 continously 一刻不停的持续

presence

in the presence of sb

in sb's presence

词组：

cool off冷却下来，凉爽下来

study the map仔细查看

study：examine sth very carefully

study the map/menu

精妙翻译：

译：study the map不是研究，而是仔细查看

DAY282

L57-2: Back in the old country

So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve. He did not marry again and I was brought up without a woman's care; but I lacked for nothing, for he was both father and mother to me.He always meant to go back one day, but not to stay. His roots and mine had become too firmly embedded in the new land.

知识点：

单词：

emigrate /ˈɛmɪˌɡret/

v.移民

If you emigrate, you leave your own country to live in another country.

eg. He emigrated to Belgium...他移民到比利时。

gradually /ˈɡrædʒʊəlɪ/

adv. 逐渐地；逐步地

If something changes or is done gradually, it changes or is done in small stages over a long period of time, rather than suddenly.

eg. Electricity lines to 30,000 homes were gradually being restored yesterday...

昨天，3万户家庭逐渐恢复了供电。

cease /sis/ v. 停止

1 v 停止;终了;消失 If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.

eg. At one o'clock the rain had ceased.

一点时，雨已停了。

2 v 停止;终止 If you cease to do something, you stop doing it.

eg. He never ceases to amaze me...

他总能给我惊喜。

3 v 停止;终止 If you cease something, you stop it happening or working.

eg. The Tundra Times, a weekly newspaper in Alaska, ceased publication this week.

阿拉斯加的周报《苔原时报》本周停刊了。

grieve /ɡriv/

1 v （尤指因某人的亡故而）悲痛，悲伤，伤心 If you grieve oversomething, especially someone's death, you feel very sad about it.

eg. He's grieving over his dead wife and son...

他因丧妻失子而悲痛不已。

2 v 使难过；使悲伤 If you are grieved by something, it makes you unhappy or upset.

eg. He was deeply grieved by the sufferings of the common people...

百姓的困苦使他痛心不已。

embed /ɛmˈbɛd/ 把...嵌入

1 v 使插入;使嵌入 If an object embeds itself in a substance or thing, it becomes fixed there firmly and deeply.

eg. One of the bullets passed through Andrea's chest before embedding itself in a wall.

其中一颗子弹射穿了安德烈亚的胸部，打入一面墙中。

2 v 使（态度、感情等）植根于;使融入 If something such as an attitude or feeling is embedded in a society or system, or in someone's personality, it becomes a permanent and noticeable feature of it.

eg. This agreement will be embedded in a state treaty to be signed soon.

这份协议将被纳入即将签署的国家条约中。

词组：

be absorbed in 专注于，只顾；

recover from…从……中恢复

recover sth

重新找回，赚回，补偿

mean to do sth 打算做某事

be firmly embedded in 深深扎根于……中

DAY283

L57-3: Back in the old country

But he wanted to see the old folk again and to visit my mother's grave. He became mortally ill a few months before we had planned to go and, when he knew that he was dying, he made me promise to go on my own.I hired a car the day after landing and bought a comprehensive book of maps, which I found most helpful on the cross-country journey, but which I did not think I should need on the last stage. It was not that I actually remembered anything at all.

知识点：

单词：

folk

n.民族; 人们; 〈口〉家属，亲戚; 民间音乐;adj.民间的; 普通平民的; 流传民间的; 普通百姓的; 英/fəʊk/美/foʊk/ 复数：folks

mortally adv.致命地; 非常，很;英/ˈmɔ:təli/美/ˈmɔ:rtəli/

mortally=fatally 致命地

mortally/fatally ill/injured/wounded

a mortal/fatal illness/injury/wound

opp→immortal永垂不朽的

（all ）alone/on one's own/by oneself（完全） 一个人

词组：

made me promise---make one's promise 许下诺言

固定搭配：make a promise 允诺

on my own--- on one's own 靠自己的力量，独自地; 独力; 独立;

eg.Success in study mainly depends on one's own efforts.

句式：

it was not that ，but （that）

not that…but that…不是因为，而是因为，but that的that不可以省略

eg. Not that I love caesar less，but that I love rome more.

长难句、语法：

which I found most helpful on the cross country journey but which I did not think I should need on the last stage

同一层次上的双重定语从句，中间用并列连词and，or ，but此时关系词往往不可省去

不在同一层次上的双重定语从句，第一个修饰前面的名词或短语，第二个修饰“名词或短语+第一个定语从句”，两个定语从句之间没有并列连词连接，第一个定语从句的关系词可省略。（一般是关系代词作宾语）

eg. the person I know who……

I did not think 是嵌入式定语从句，又是修饰先行词，又是从句中主谓结构的宾语

DAY284

L57-4: Back in the old country

But my father had described over and over again what we should see at every milestone, after leaving the nearest town, so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory.Well, I had been wrong, for I was now lost. I looked at the map and then at the milometer. I had come ten miles since leaving the town, 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.

知识点：

单词：

milestone 里程碑；划时代事件

make a milestone in…

是……的里程碑

a milestone on/along the road to…

positive adj.

1-with no possibility of doubt; clear and definite 无可怀疑的，明确的，确定的

eg. We have no positive proof of her guilt.

我们没有她犯罪的确切证据。

2-~(about sth/that)(of a person)

confidently holding an opinion; convinced

（指人）有把握的，确信的（本文含义）

eg. Are you absolutely positive that it was after midnight?

你是否有绝对把握认为那事是在午夜以后发生的？

territory 领土，地盘，领域

可数, 不可数均可

不可数时，表示知识或经验的领域

eg. Social work is familiar territory to her.

milometer n.计程器

spire n.（教堂的）塔尖

词组：

be familiar/unfamiliar territory to sb

句式：

be positive that对……确定

I WAS sure/ certain/ confident /convinced that

I HAD no doubt that…

I bet that…

精妙翻译：

But my father had described over and over again what we should see at every milestone, after leaving the nearest town, so that I was positive I should recognize it as familiar territory.

而是父亲曾详细给我讲了，在过了离故乡最近的那个小镇后，在每一个路标处可见到些什么。因此，我相信这段路对我来说，会是很熟悉的。

（自译内容）但我父亲曾向我无数次描述过，在离开最近的一个小镇时，一路上会有什么景色，这样我就有信心我会像回家一样熟悉。

DAY285

L57-5: Back in the old country

I could see no valley, no farms, no cottages and no church spire -- only a lake. I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. So I drove back to the town and began to retrace the route, taking frequent glances at the map. I landed up at the same corner. The curious thing was that the lake was not marked on the map. I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams.And, as in a nightmare, there was nobody in sight to help me.

知识点：

单词：

spire n.（教堂的）塔尖

stumble (stʌmbəl ) v

If you stumble, you put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running and nearly fall over.

词组：

take a wrong turning /拐错了弯

retrace the route

take/shoot/throw/cast a glance 扫视

case quick glances at sb

shoot sidelong glances at sb 用眼角余光扫我

in sight /看得见，在视野内

land up=end up=finish up最终，最后……

+doing sth最终他做了……

stumble over/on…=trip over/on…在……上绊了一下

stumble across/on/upon… to find sth or meet sb. by accident=come across…

偶然发现，偶然遇到，邂逅…

stumble into…偶然卷入、参与或陷入

to become involved in sth by chance

句式：

The curious thing was that…

长难句、语法：

I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams.

as if/as though 从句中表达与事实相反或可能性很小时，可以用虚拟语气，与现在事实相反用一般过去时（be 用were）与过去事实相反用过去完成时，与未来趋势相反用would should could might+动词原形

可以用虚拟语气，不是一定要用， 表示可能性很大的时候依然可以用

摘要写作：

I couldn't find anything familiar when I arrived at the place, except for a lake, which was not marked on the map. I thought I was in a nightmare when I found there was nobody could come and help me.