2018年英语四级考试口语常用句型(八)
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things
humans can do for each other.
感激是人们可以为他人做的最简单却也是最有力量的事。
Notes:
1.gratitude
n. 感激,感谢;感激的样子;谢意;恩义
常见搭配:
express one's gratitude to sb. for sth.
为某事对某人表示感谢
devoid of all gratitude
忘恩负义
in token of one's gratitude
藉表谢意
out of gratitude
出于感激
2.powerful
adj. 强大的;权力大的;(药)有效地
adv. 很;非常
原型:power
n. [机]动力,功率;力量;政权,权力;强国,大国
vt. 运转;用发动机发动;使…有力量
vi. 靠动力行进;快速行进
adj. 权力的;机械能的,电动的;用电力(或动力)发动的
常见搭配:
a power of
[口]大量, 许多
be beyond one's powers
不能胜任, 力所不及
out of one's powers
不能胜任, 力所不及
By (all) the powers! (=Merciful powers!)
[口]我的天呀! 仁慈的上帝呀!
come to power
(开始)掌权, 上台
do all in one's power
尽力, 竭尽全力
2013年6月英语四级考试口语练习:次要地位
第一、迷你对话
A: Lily thinks that the job takes a back seat to the family after she is married.
Lily认为结婚后家庭为先,工作处于次要地位。
B: She must be a good wife.
她一定是一个好妻子。
A: Not necessarily. This is only what she says, not what he does.
那也未必,说归说,做归做。
B: I see.
我明白了。
第二、 对话精讲
【地道表达】 take a back seat
【解词释义】 to become less important than someone or something else 处于次要地位
【语法用法】 要以......为主要地位而......为次要地位,在短语的后面加上介词to,即:take a back seat to something。
【支持范例】 When the discussion turned to military affairs, the governor had to take a back seat .
当讨论到军事问题时,州长只好靠边站了。
After 30 years in the business it's time for me to take a back seat and make room for younger men.
干了30年,现在我该退居二线,给较年轻的人让位了。
My homework had to take a backseat to football during the playoffs.
在比赛赛季,我必须以足球危险,而学业功课处于次要地位。
Jimmy always took a backseat to his older brother, Bill, until Bill went away to college.
Jimmy总是让着他的哥哥Bill,知道他上大学。