1、指一系列密切相关的事情 A chain of 一系列 Chain store 连锁店 Chain reaction 连锁反应 Chain smoker 吸烟很严重的人Succession: 侧重指时间的顺序连续。 A succession of failures 一系列的失败String: 连续不断相似的事件； a string of cars 一连串的汽车Train: 一个接一个发生的事； a train of thoughts/ideas 一个个的想法Series? chain? succession? string? trainCatastrophe: 大祸，灾难；强调严重的、波及范围比
2、较广的灾难 Worldwide catastrophe./ national catastropheDisaster: 灾难，不幸（语气较弱）Calamity: 灾难，不幸事件； 指令人痛心的个人或社会的损失 Nature calamity 自然灾害Disaster? calamity? catastrophePanic n. 惊慌 Get into a panic 陷入惊慌之中 Be struck with panic/be seized with panic 惊慌失措Terror: 惊骇Horror: 恐惧Fright: 害怕Alarm: 惊恐Panic? alarm? fright? h
3、orror? terrorStray adj. 迷失的（=lost）; v. 迷失，常和from连用； The dog strayed from home.Confusion = condition out of orderIn order: 秩序井然Fall into confusion: 陷入混乱状态In confusion: 乱七八糟Be covered with confusion: 局促不安Throw sb. into confusion: 使某人惊慌失措Mess? confusionDevour: 1. eat like animal 狼吞虎咽 2. destroy 吞灭，席卷 3
4、. take in eagerly with eyes, ears or mind 贪婪的看或听 His eyes devoured the scene.Every dog has its day. 每个人都会有飞黄腾达的日子Get out of control 失控（uncontrollable, beyond control）Precisely = exactlyIt is as if/it seems as if/it looks as if 似乎/好象/看起来Set up = cause 引起，导致，造成； What set up the trouble?Keep an eye on
5、= look after = take care ofKeep ones eyes open 睁大眼睛Have an eye toEye for eye： 以牙还牙Have eye only for: 只要，只爱； I have eyes only for you.Look sb. in the eyes: 两眼直视某人See eye to eye with sb.: 与某人看法完全一致Turn a blind eye to sth.: 对视而不见Make eyes at sb.: 含情脉脉地看着某人On the phone = answer the phonePull off 拉下来Pick
6、 off 取下来Knock off 碰落下来Smash half: 摔成两半In the process: 在这个过程当中Hang up = put on the receiverAttend to = look after = deal with Please attend to my baby.Reduce you to tears: 迫使你留下眼泪 You almost reduce me to tears.Reduce sb. to silence./ reduce sth. to Draw a conclusion Troubles never come single. 祸不单行On
7、 a big scale = to a great degree = to great extentAs和which引导非限定性定语从句As重点突出整个句子的含义，而which有可能指代主句当中的某个词汇，也有可能指代整个句子的含义。As we expected, John was admitted to the university.She married him, which was unexpected.The material is elastic as shown in the figure.The material is elastic which is shown in the
8、figure.Rush hour: 上下班高峰期Happen to: 恰巧； I happened to hear the news.Right = straightDraw up = pull up 停车All of a sudden = suddenly Lead to = causeMeanwhile = at the same time = in the meantimeGet the traffic on the move. 使得车辆开动起来On the move = move from place to placeOn the rise 正在上升On the boil 正在沸腾On
9、 the go 正在忙碌中On the watch 正在监视On the turn 正在转变中On the run 正在逃跑中On the fly 正在飞行中On the increase 正在增加On the decrease 正在减少Benefit from: 从得益； You benefit a lot from your reading.In panic/in terror/in fear/in horrorSlid over: 躲过; He slid over the question without answering it.Leftovers: 吃剩的东西; The leftov
10、ers of the meal were fed to the dog. Lesson 33 A day to remember 难忘的一天【New words and expressions】 生词和短语prelude n. 序幕，前奏unforeseen adj. 意料之外的series n. 系列catastrophe n. 大祸，灾难crockery n. 陶器，瓦器suburb n. 郊区collide v. 猛撞learner n. 初学者panic n. 惊慌，恐慌windscreen n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃alongside prep. 在的旁边，与并排slide v. 滑s
11、tray adj. 离群的confusion n. 混乱greedily adv. 贪婪地devour v. 狼吞虎咽地吃prelude n. 序幕，前奏a prelude to sth 的前奏Eg: a prelude to serious trouble 麻烦的前奏introduction 导言，绪论introduction to the book preface 序，前言foreword 序unforeseen adj. 意料之外的foresee = see before handI foresee a bright future for you.foreseeable 可预见的fore
12、seeing 预料之中的unforeseeing 意料之外的foretell 预言，主语可以是人或物predict 预言，预示（语气较强），主语必须是人forecast : 预测，预报（主要指天气的预报） Timely snow foretells a bumper harvest. 瑞雪照丰年series n. 系列series 单复数形式同形a series ofWeve got a series of good harvest.chain 连串，连锁a chain of 一系列a series of reaction 一系列反应a chain of reaction一系列反应chain
13、store 连锁店，chain reaction 连锁反应chain smoker 吸烟很严重的人succession 侧重时间上的连续a suucession of failures 一系列的失败Eg.: Weve got a succession of successes.string 连续不断相似的事件train 一个接一个发生的事a train of thoughts/ ideas 一个个的想法catastrophe n. 大祸，灾难worldwide catastrophe 世界范围的灾难national catastrophe 波及全国的灾难disaster 灾难，不幸（语气较弱）
14、calamity 灾害，不幸事件nature calamity 自然灾害crockery n. 陶器，瓦器suburb n. 郊区collide v. 猛撞learner n. 初学者panic n. 惊慌，恐慌panic : uncontrollable quickly spreading fear or terrorget into a panic 陷入惊慌之中He suddenly got into a panic and stop his car.be struck with panic= be seized with panic 惊慌失措He was seized with pani
15、c.terror 惊骇horror 恐惧fright 害怕alarm 惊恐windscreen n. （汽车的）挡风玻璃alongside prep. 在的旁边，与并排slide v. 滑stray adj. 迷失的，离群的The dog strayed from home.confusion n. 混乱condition out of order in order 秩序井然out of order 混乱L33-01 end 1019”L33-02 begin 1010”in confusion 乱七八糟be covered with confusion 局促不安throw sb into c
16、onfusion 使某人惊慌失措greedily adv. 贪婪地devour v. 狼吞虎咽地吃devour: 1. eat like an animalThe dog devoured the cake2. destroy 吞灭，席卷The flames devoured the whole building3. take in eagerly with eyes, ears, or mind 贪婪地看His eyes devoured the scene. 他两眼贪婪地看着。【Text】整篇背诵 Listen to the tape then answer the question be
17、low. What incident began the series of traffic accidents?We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment
18、. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the t
19、ablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
20、Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and st
21、opped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car,
22、 pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. I
23、n the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!参考译文 我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无关
24、紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这时电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正
25、坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉到马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。这又引起一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到好处，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！【课文讲解】Every dog has its day 每个人都会有飞黄腾达的日子get out of control 失控uncontroll
26、able, beyond controlinvariably: alwaysWhat happened yesterday was that he couldnt deal with the hot potato.precisely: exactlyIt is as if It seems as if It looks as if 似乎好象看起来set up = cause 引起，导致，造成What set up the accident?set up a world record 创世界纪录set up = creat 创立，建立The unimportant event is the pr
27、elude to trouble. 不重要的事情是麻烦事的前奏。keep an eye on tha baby 照料孩子keep an eye on = look after = take care ofPlease keep an eye on my bouse while I am out.keep ones eyes open 睁大眼睛When I am out, please keep your eyes open.have an eye toeye for eye 以牙还牙have eyes only for 只要，只爱 I have eyes only for you. look
28、sb in the eyes 两眼直视某人eye to eye with sb 与某人看法完全一样 I invariably see eye to eye with my sister. turn a blind eye to sth. 对视而不见 He even turned blind eye to me. make eyes at sb 含情报脉脉地看着某人 The boy is making eyes at his girlfriend. L33-02 end 1010”L33-03 begin 1005”on teh phone = answer the phonepull off
29、拉下来pick off 取下来knock off 碰落下来smash half 摔成两半in the process 在这个过程中hang up = put on the receiverattend to = look after = deal withPlease attend to my baby.Excuse me, I have something urgent to attend to.reduce you to tears.reduce sb to + 名词： 迫使某人处于状态 You almost reduce me to tears. His comforting words almost reduced his wife to tears.His ans
