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1.cooperative a.合作的,协力的

例句:They are trying to adopt a more cooperative posture.
       他们正试图采取更为合作的态度。

2.plenty a.充裕的,足够的,很多的

例句:That will leave plenty of hours vacant.
      那样的话就有许多空闲时间了。

3.statue n.雕像

例句:The peasant girl adores the statue of the Virgin Mary.
      这个农家姑娘非常崇拜圣母玛丽亚的塑像。

4.observatory n.天文台,气象台,了望台,观测台

例句:Local observatory alerted residents that there would be a dust storm the next day.
      当地气象台通知居民第二天可能会有沙尘暴。

5.secure v.固定,获得,保证,使安全

例句:You cannot secure yourself against all risks and dangers.
      你不能使自己免受所有危险。

     The soldiers secured the camp against attack.
     士兵保卫营房免受攻击。

1.Thomas Walsh had it built more than one hundred years ago as a home for his family.
 
have sth done

have/has sth done(过去分词)有两个意思
(有意地)让他人为自己做某事,即过去分词所表示的动作由别人完成,而宾语是过去分词所表示动作的承受者或动作对象。

例句:I’ll have a new suit made of this cloth.
            我要用这种布料做一套新衣服。
(无意识地)让某人(或某物)遭受不幸
例句:He had his handbag stolen.
          他的手提包被人偷了。

2.She wore the huge jewel even though she had received warnings that it caused terrible things to happen.

even though即使,尽管,纵然

例句:We mustn't let up,even though we're winning.
      我们即使快赢了也决不可松劲。

3.It also calls attention to the honorary United States citizenship that he was given.

call attention to引起对…的注意

例句:It is necessary to call attention to this fact.
      有必要唤起人们注意这个事实。

4.Today, however, it is not the history but the beauty of the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks that captures our attention.

强调句型

一、强调句型的用法

在英语中,我们常用It is/was… who/that结构来突出强调句子的某一成分(一般是句子中主语,宾语或状语)。在这个句型中,it没有词汇意义,只是引出被强调的成分。如果被强调的成分是表示人的词,用who或that来连接都可以。如果是其它成分,则一律用that来连接。

E.g. It is my mother who/that cooks every day.

E.g. It was yesterday that Tom passed in the maths exam.

二、使用本句型的几个注意事项

1.被强调成分是主语,who/that之后的谓语动词应该在人称和数上与原句中的主语保持一致。

   e.g. It is I who am right.

e.g. It is he who is wrong.

e.g. It is the students who are lovely.

2.即使被强调成分是句子中的时间状语,地点状语,原因状语等,也不能用when,where, because,要用 that。

   E.g.  It was after the war was over that Einstein was able to come back to his research work again .

E.g. It was in front of the bank that the old lady was robbed.

E.g. It was because of the heavy rain that he came late.

3.如果被强调的成分有同位语,同位语也应提前。

It was from him,his chemistry teacher,that Paul learned to watch carefully in class.

4.被强调成分是作主语的代词,用主格,是作宾语的代词,用宾格

It was he that helped me yesterday. It was me that he helped yesterday.

5.被强调部分既包括人又包括物,用that不用who

lt was the things and people that they remembered that they were talking about.

三、区分定语从句和强调句型某些定语从句和强调句型形式差不多,容易混淆。如果去掉it is/ was ...that句子仍然通顺成立,则为强调句型,不成立不通顺,则为定语从句。

    E.g. It was three years ago that he went to American for a further study·去掉It was that句子为Three years ago he went to America for a further study.句子通顺,意思完整,那么,这就是一个强调句型。