2018年1月18日12:50:17
Family trees:Ancestral longings
还读单词
- genealogy 家谱
- bountiful 丰富的,充裕的
- veneration 尊敬
- scrupulous 一丝不苟的,严格认真的,按良心和道德原则办事的,绝对正直的
- clan 党派,部落
They are usually made up of two characters, with the first one sometimes
chosen from a generational sequence of names ordained by the recipient’s
clan. Mr Liu knows the sequence for eight generations in his family.
精读单词
- ordain 任某人为牧师;注定
精读结构
- they代表是given names 教名,这里应该指的是名
- 名一般由两个字构成
- 第一个字通常是从同一代按照顺序中选,第一个字通常
- recipient’s clan 代表接受者氏族
- 刘先生知道他在他的家族里排行老八
The environment:Feeling green
泛读单词
- homage 尊敬,敬意
- cult 礼拜;狂热崇拜的
- eclectic 折衷的
- warrant 显得合理
Beijingers,on the other hand, were far more unhappy even than their city’s unimpressive ranking of 28th on the objective index (and an unusually blue-skied winter) would appear to warrant.
精读结构
- far more 多得多
- 另一方面,尽管北京在客观指标下排在第28名,但北京人还是远远不能高兴,这貌似是合理的(这是不合理的,用到虚拟语气,表示事实与陈述相反)