CHAPTER 13: Trends in Tourism
Reading skill: Identifying Purpose
Purpose/ Audience/ Possible text types
CHAPTER 14: Just Back: High Tide in La Serenissima
Reading skill: Understanding Descriptive Language
1. outright /'ɑʊtr'ɑɪt/
(a.)
率直的，完全的，總共的(ad.)率直地，立刻地，一直向前I told him outright what i thought of him .
我坦白地告訴他我對他的感想。
The two persons have the same talent and abilities .
二人才力相當。
(a.)
赤腳的I don't want to go around here barefoot .
我不想在這里光著腳板走路。
We have made enormous strides in science .
我們在科學方面有了長足的進展。
It's the deepest trauma of our existence .
這在我們的生命史上是最慘重的一次打擊了。
It had never been more than a family anecdote .
那不過是個家庭趣談罷了。
He seems to have mistaken a plus for a minus .
他似乎把正號誤作負號了。
The united states does not have a parliamentary political system in which voters cast their ballots for parties .
美國沒有一種選民為他們的政黨投票的議會政治制度。
The leopard bounded on the prey .
那只豹猛撲向獵物。
The men walked aimlessly about the enclosure .
人們無目的地在圍場里走著。
(a.)
起始的，創始的，主動的主動性，主動精神The initiative comes from man throughout .
人自始至終占主導地位。
The police are now on the scent of the culprit .
警方已獲得罪犯的線索。
(vt.)
廢止，革除，取消The unjust stamp act must be abolished .
必須廢止這個不公正的印花稅案。
(vi.)
牛拉車，艱苦跋涉牛拉車旅行，艱苦跋涉Many more trekked up ， uncounted ， from mexico
還有大量不記其數的墨西哥人跋涉而來。
(a.)
巨大的，畸形的，怪異的You shall see a monstrous pretty girl .
您會看到一個非常漂亮的姑娘。
Call in the troops and clear the bazaars .
召集軍隊，蕩平集市區！
I am under almost total control of hormones .
我幾乎完全受激素控制。
Pulmonary arteries taper towards periphery .
肺動脈向周圍逐漸變細。
20. utensil
Do you have enough kitchen utensils ?
你們有足夠的廚房用具嗎？
The united states does not have a parliamentary political system in which voters cast their ballots for parties .
美國沒有一種選民為他們的政黨投票的議會政治制度。
(a.)
狂亂的，瘋狂的He was frantic to break it and be free .
他拚命想擺脫它，獲得自由。
His gloved hands were clasped behind him .
他雙手戴著手套，叉在背后。
24. aborigine /，æbɚ'ɪdʒəni/
山地人
They were the scourge of god upon the aborigines of the american continent .
他們是上帝降在美洲土著當中的災難。
(vt.)
懸，吊，使懸浮，暫停，中止，推遲(vi.)暫停，中止，懸浮，宣佈破產Suddenly my bewilderment suspended .
突然我的惶惑不安的心情暫時消失了。
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