Reading_573702.ppt

n. 目前, 现在; 礼物 I can’t spare time because I am busy at present. What present did you receive from your parents? at present: now; at this time/moment She’s busy at present and can’t speak to you. 她现在很忙, 不能跟你谈话。 At present he is a professor of mathematics at Cambridge. 目前他是剑桥大学的数学教授。 vt. 赠与，给， 提出 present sb. with sth. 或present sth. to sb. 把……交给, 颁发, 授予 如: Mother presented a gift to me just now. On his birthday, his friends presented him with a series of readers/presented a series of readers to him. (送给他一套《读者》) 9. Shakespeare made use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. 莎士比亚使用了比以往任何时候更为 广泛的词汇量。 make use of 利用, 使用 make good/full use of 充分使用 make no use of sth. 没有利用 We could make good use of our resources. 我们应该充分利用好我们的资源。 Every minute should be made good use of. 每一分钟都应该很好地利用。 She makes use of people she meets as heroes for her novel. We should make good use of time to study. [拓展] make构成的常见短语: make of、 make from 通常用于被动语态, 构成be made of、be made from 都 表示“由……制成”。 其中be made of 表示在产品中能够看出 原材料; be made from 表示在产品中 看不出原材料。 make up 编写, 编造；和解 make up of 由……组成/构成； make up for 弥补, 补偿 make out 理解, 弄懂; 看清, (勉强) 辨认出; 假装, 装成 make into 制成…… make it 成功, 办成; 及时赶到 10. the number of/ a number of the number of “……的数目”, 接可数 名词复数, 其后谓语动词用单数。 The number of undergraduates has increased over the years. a number of 许多, 大量 (后接复数名词), 其后谓语动词用复数。 (a great number of/a large number of/ a small number of ) A number of teachers agree with me. The number of people invited _____ fifty, but a number of them ___ absent for different reasons. A. were; was B. was; was C. was; were D. were; were C 注意: 只能修饰可数名词的 a large/great/good number of, a good/great many, dozens of, scores of, quite a few 只能修饰不可数名词的： a great deal of, a large amount of, quite a little, a large sum of 既可修饰可数也可修饰不可数名词的： plenty of, a lot of, lots of, a large quantity of 11. such as for example such as 用来列举事物时, 一般列举同类 人或事物中的几个例子且所列举