新视野大学英语第三版第二册课文语法讲解_Unit4

经典作品。

2 classical 不能用作名词，只能用作形容词，表示“古典的；经典的”。例如： *I spend a lot of time reading and listening to classical music. 我花了很多时间阅读和聆听 古典音乐。

*Classical music is music written by composers such as Mozart and Beethoven. 像莫扎特

和贝多芬所创作的音乐称为古典音乐。

*莫扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐属于古典音乐(classical music), 但这些古典音乐经久不衰，

有永久的意义和价值，所以这些音乐也可称为经典的音乐（classic music）。反之，在前面

有一例中说可口可乐瓶子的设计是精彩的，一流的，所以是经典（classic）之作，但很明显

可口可乐瓶子的设计不是古典的 （classical）设计。所以，经典的（classic）作品不一定

就是古典的（classical）作品。

Note: Classic fairy-tale romance is used to describe a romance blessed with unusual happiness. Colloquially, a fairy tale can also refer to any story extremely unlikely to be true.

4 Perhaps, they’re right but it didn’t seem so at the time. (Para. 1)

Meaning: My daughters’ perception may be right, yet our romance back then was actually

not like what they have assumed.

5 In a way, love just happens when you least expect it. Who would have thought that Butch and I would end up getting married to each other? He became my boyfriend because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a cute boyfriend! (Para. 1) Meaning: Love comes your way when you don’t real y expect it. No one thought that Butch and I would finally get married. He became my boyfriend simply because I would like to fulfil my shallow wish: to have an attractive boyfriend in col ege.

Meaning beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story – the author gives a broad hint that she wil tell us how she and her husband got married at last.

6 We met through my college roommate at the university cafeteria. That fateful night, I was merely curious, but for him I think it was love at first sight. (Para. 2) Meaning: At the school dining hal that important night, we were introduced to each other

through my roommate. I met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed to fal in love

with

me as soon as he saw me.

7 “You have beautiful eyes,” he said as he gazed at my face. (Para. 2)

Meaning beyond words: The author was obviously attractive to Butch since he tried to please her by praising her eyes.

8 He kept staring at me all night long. (Para. 2)

Note: Both gaze at and stare at mean “looking at something fixedly for a long time

because of being attracted, surprised, or thinking, etc.”. Stare at usually has the additional

meaning of “with eyes widely open”. Also, it usually implies “with great attention”; gaze

at usually implies “in a dreamy and unaware state of mind”.

9 I really wasn’t that interested for two reasons. First, he looked like he was a really wild boy, maybe even dangerous. Second, although he was very cute, he seemed a little weird. (Para. 2)

Meaning beyond words: She wasn’t interested in him because she got the impression that he was wild and strange, which il ustrates that she didn’t know much about him at the

beginning. Therefore, it’s not true that their romance was heading for marriage from the start.

10 Riding on his bicycle, he’d ride past my dorm as if “by accident” and pretend to be surprised to see me. I liked the attention but was cautious about his wild, dynamic personality. (Para. 3)

Meaning beyond words: She understood his little trick: trying to see her by

manufacturing excuses. Though she was happy to be the focus of his attention, she was also very alert to his wild and dynamic personality.

11 He had a charming way with words which would charm any girl. (Para. 3) Meaning: He knew how to please and attract girls because what he said was always pleasant to their ears.

12 Fear came over me when I started to fall in love. His exciting “bad boy image” was just too tempting to resist. What was it that attracted me?(Para. 3)

Meaning: I was in an awkward position: I started to fal in love with him, but I was also afraid of that. His bad boy image was too attractive to resist, but at the same time it was somewhat fearful. So, what exactly was it in him that attracted me?

Note: Tempting is a present participle of the verb tempt, used as an adjective to describe the effect that something has on someone’s feelings. For example, if you find something tempting/charming/disgusting/frightening, it means it tempts/charms/disgusts/frightens you. In English there are a group of words describing an effect that something has on your

feelings and ideas. For example:

*a tempting job offer 一个诱人的工作机会

an alarming increase in racial hostility 种族仇视的惊人增长