综合英语Book_VI_Unit11教材教学课件.ppt

* * Unit 11 Text I On Consigning Manuscripts to Floppy Discs and Archives to Oblivion Language Points 1. The advent of word processors, and their relatively low cost…and revising their creative efforts:这个句子中，谓语是mean,意为“意味着”，它接有一个相当长的宾语从句；宾语从句中，有三个并列的谓语动词：turned, inserted, begun。句中Wangs, IBMs和Apple表示由他们这些电脑制造商生产出来的文字处理器或电脑。IBM是International Business Machine Corporation的简称。 2. How appropriate, even ironic, it might have been had his various drafts gone the way… into a memory bank:这句话运用了虚拟语气，是对过去事实的猜测。其中条件句部分省略了if,而将had提前。在虚拟条件句中，有两个并列的谓语动词：gone和disappeared，指出书被付之一炬，或存贮于电脑中同样让人悔恨。 Text II This is progress? Language Points 1. So man must turn to machine if he hopes to contain the tide and channel it to beneficial ends:句中the tide指the tide of knowledge; contain the tide表示keep the tide of knowledge under control; channel在句中用作动词,与contain并列,意为“为…开辟途径,引导”.英语中有许多通常用作名词的词转换为动词使用,其动词意思与名词意思贴近,常表示发生或做出名词表示的内容的动作,channel即是一例.句中channel it to beneficial ends意为“将它引向有利的一方”。 *