大学英语精读第三版第四册Book4 Unit6
1) prelude 2) schedule
3) be in the way/get in the way 4) individuals 5) sequence 6) preserve 7) relevant 8) integrate 9) glide 10) inquiry 11) conscious 12) continual
13) Reading between the lines 14) sets of 15) original
1) resumed
2) transferred 3) manufactured 4) loosened 5) invariably 6) set down 7) restrain 8) literally 9) glided 10) magnificent 11) do good to 12) consists ... in
1) have dipped into 2) read through 3) picked up 4) left off
5) has thought through 6) reaching for 7) tied up
8) was marked up 9) consisted in/consists in 10) reduced to
1You mustn't let your social life get in the way of your studies.) 2) A good director is indispensable for a successful film. 3) Price rise restrains consumer spending.
4) His color is not relevant to whether he can become a good lawyer. 5) Reduce that passage to half the number of words.
1) bourgeois: (French) a capitalist 2) café: (French) a coffee house
3) kindergarten: (German) a school or class for children from about 4 to 6 years old 4) shah: (Persian) (the title of) the ruler of Iran
5) solo: (Italian) a piece of music for one voice or instrument
6) tea: (Chinese) the specially treated and dried leaves used for making a hot drink 7) tsar: (Russian) (the title of) the emperor of Russia
8) typhoon: (Chinese) a severe tropical hurricane occurring in the western Pacific or the China Sea
1) continual 2) continuous 3) continual 4) continuous 5) continual 6) continuous
1) I can no more play bridge than you. 2) Myron is no more a painter than I am.
3) Such an invalid as Mrs. Long is no more fit to live by herself than a three-year-old would be. 4) I would no more have anything to do with the arrogant young man himself than I would deal with his rude brothers.
1) so to speak, a member of the family 2) not worth a dot on the map, so to speak 3) so to speak, our King 4) it's almost a crime, so to speak
1) Wilson will stay to have lunch with us, I expect.
2) The first part is better written than the other parts, don't you think? 3) This book, I suppose, will give you some idea of what ecology is about. 4) This encyclopedia, you know, is designed chiefly for middle school students.
5) I hurried home to plunge into a book which I have not opened for, I dare say, twenty years.
1) read between the lines 2) magnificent 3) preserved 4) dip into 5) transfer 6) think through 7) integrate 8) Setting down 9) underlining 10) relevant 11) glide 12) reach for 1) It