3册-019*********************

预热

绑架kidnap

原文：Kidnappers are rarely interested in animals, but they recently took considerable interest in Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay's cat.

绑架者很少对动物感兴趣。最近，绑架者却盯上了Eleanor Ramsay夫人的猫咪。

1. paraphrase

有多实用？百变表达随心用！

sb. be interested in sth.

sb. take in interest in sth.

词性上的转化使用，形容词词组与名词词组交替使用。

扩展：写作的多元化手法

We should pay more attention to our children. We should pay attention to their academic education and intelligence development, we should pay attention to their daily life and character development, we should pay attention to their physical health and psychological health, and we should pay attention to the development of their taste and temperament.

我们必须多重视孩子。我们要重视孩子们的文化教育和智力开发，我们要重视孩子们的生活细节以及性格发展；我们要重视孩子们的身体健康及心理健康；还要重视孩子们的品位和修养的培养。

分析：55个词

We should pay attention to重复了5次

development重复了3次

health重复了2次

改良后：

More attention should be devoted to our children. We should emphasize their academic education and intelligence development, lay stress on their daily life and character moulding, focus on their physical and psychological health, and attach great importance to the cultivation of their taste and temperament.

分析：

1）重视：devote attention to、emphasize、lay stress on、focus on以及attach great importance to。

2）使用被动语态：

More attention should be devoted to our children.

a.强调“重视”这个动作

b.避免主语“we”的重复出现。

3）development的替换：intelligence development、character moulding、cultivation of their taste and temperament。

原文：He usually takes a short walk in the evenings and is always home by seven o'clock.

2. 介词的“小心机”

思考：这里的介词by可以换成at吗？

可不可以说He usually takes a short walk in the evenings and is always home at seven o’clock.呢？

分析：

at：精准的时间点

by：时间上的半开半闭区间。

这只猫咪过着十分规律的生活，傍晚常常出去溜达一会儿，并且总是在7点钟以前回来。

原文：Three days after Rastus' disappearance, Mrs. Ramsay received an anonymous letter.

猫咪失踪3天后，Ramsay太太收到一封匿名信。

3. anonymous a. 匿名的

挑战：找相同

anonymous

synonym

Antonym

答案：

-onym，name or word 名字或者单词

前缀syn：the same 相同的，synonym 同义词

前缀ant：相反的，antonym 反义词

前缀an：without 没有，不含

后缀-ous：形容词，anonymous：without a name 无名的。

原文：The writer stated that Rastus was in safe hands and would be returned immediately if Mrs. Ramsay paid a ransom of ￡1,000.

写信人声称Rastus安然无恙，只要Ramsay夫人愿意支付1000英镑的赎金，可以立即将猫送还。

4.ransom n.赎金

Ransom means money that is paid to sb so that they will set free a person who is being kept as a prisoner by them.

The kidnappers demanded a ransom of £50,000 from his family.

绑架者向他的家人索要赎金5万英镑。

支付赎金可以用动词pay来引导。

扩展：

1）hold sb to ransom

a.将…绑票

The cat was held to ransom.

The child was held to ransom.

b.胁迫；要挟

It means to take action that puts sb in a very difficult situation in order to force them to do what you want.

She was held to ransom by her political opponent because of her past.

她有些不光彩的过去，因此被政敌要挟。

Don’t try to hold me to ransom. I am not afraid of you or anyone.

别想胁迫我，我可不吃这一套。

2）a king's ransom一笔巨款

a very large amount of money

原文：The police were astounded when Mrs. Ramsay told them what she had done.

Ramsay太太跟警方提起这事儿。警察听后大为吃惊。

5.astound “惊掉下巴”应该怎么说？

课文中用的were astounded来表达警察叔叔的惊讶之情。

扩展：

1）sb’s mouth drops

2）slack-jawed a.

含义：With the mouth in an open position and the jaw hanging loosely, especially as indicating bewilderment or astonishment.

He just gazed at me, slack-jawed.

他张大了嘴巴，吃惊地盯着我。

3）wide-eyed a.

含义：astonished or surprised.

The magician's trick left the audience wide-eyed.

魔术师的手法叫观众目瞪口呆。

4）thunderstruck a.

遭雷劈：be struck/hit by thunders

含义：If you say that someone is thunderstruck, you mean that they are extremely surprised or shocked.

She was thunderstruck when he presented her with an engagement ring.

当他送给她一只订婚戒指时，她大吃一惊。

本课重点词汇总结：

1.sb. be interested in sth.

sb. take in interest in sth.

扩展：写作的多元化手法

2.介词的“小心机”：by VS at

3. anonymous a. 匿名的

扩展：synonym 同义词

antonym 反义词

4.ransom n. 赎金

扩展：英语里的各种“钱”

5. astound v. 令人震惊的

扩展：“惊掉下巴”的各种说法

1）sb’s mouth drops

2）slack-jawed a.

3）wide-eyed a.

4）thunderstruck a.