lesson 53

hot adj 带电的，充电的

fireman n 消防队员

cause v;n 引起;原因

examine v 检查

accidentally adv 意外地，偶然地

remains n 尸体，残骸

wire n 电线

volt n 伏特

power line 电力线

solve v 解决

mystery n 谜

snatch v 抓住

spark n 电火花

hot热的，hot-hot-hot：麻辣烫

hot-wings：辣鸡翅

hot-tempered：火暴(脾气)的

hot line：热线

hot topic：热门话题

hot cake：热蛋糕

hot dog：热狗

it sells like a hot cake/cakes

hot新鲜的

best seller：畅销的东西

hot potato棘手的问题

hot news最热点的新闻

hot snake触电的蛇

hydrant：消防栓

fire extinguisher：灭火器

extinguish=put out：灭火

cause sth：引起麻烦

Carelessness causes accidents。粗心导致事故

Pride causes failure骄傲使人失败

cause sb to do sth

illness caused him to lose his temper

because：因为 be cause

reason：理由，cause：原因

cause：强调事情发生的直接原因

reason：其他各种的理由

examine the soil

check：核实，核对

accident-》accidental-》accidentally

accident：事故

unexpectedly：出乎意料地

remains指dead body

solve the mystery

solve the problem

mystery(无法接受地，解释不了的)

catch：

hold

snatch：(突然抓起来)

seize：抓住(用力)seize my arm

text

Hot snake

At last firemen have put out a big forest

fire in California. Since then, they have

been trying to find out how the fire began.

Forest fire are often caused by broken

glass or by cigarette ends which people

carelessly throw away. Yesterday the fire-

men examined the ground carefully, but

were not able to find any broken glass.

They were also quite sure that a cigarette

end did not start the fire. This morning,

however, a fireman accidentally dis-

covered the cause. He noticed the remains

of a snake which was wound round the

electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line.

In this way, he was able to solve the

mystery. The explanation was simple but

very unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then

dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When

it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.

put out a fire扑灭火

a fire一场(堆)火

since then 从那时起到现在为止

have been trying to

现在完成时强调的是很有可能

broken glass被打碎的玻璃片

cigarette ends烟头

be sure that：对...很有把握

quite sure：相当的把握性

rather：相当

fairly

quite(=completely)-》rather-》fairly

程度一个比一个轻

quite a few颇有几个(相当多的)

start a fire=cause a fire

accidentally(by chance)：偶然地

unexpectedly

cause：直接原因

notice：注意别人没注意的东西

wind one's way：蜿蜒而行新概念英语电子书

wind：盘旋，缠绕

in this way：以这种方式

explanation：解释

do so：这么做

i refuse to do so我拒绝这么做

send+宾补

down to the ground

get a electric shock

now that既然

special difficulties

quiet adj 安静的

quite adv 相当地，非常地，很

cause/reason

reason：理由，cause：原因(直接)

cause v

1、cause sth：导致，引起

2、cause sb to do sth：导致某人做某事

reason v

reason with sb：劝说(以道理)

beg for sth：乞求什么东西

drop/fall

drop vt

fall vi

multiple choice

6、key phrase：be able to=can，succeed in doing

11、in this way以这种方式

like 在英文中不表示方式

区分同位语从句与定语从句地区别：

如果that做了主语或者宾语，是定语从句

如果that既不作主语也不作宾语，是同位语从句