第十四节 副词或形容词加现在分词

1 . empirically speaking. 凭经验说。

2. metaphorically speaking. 打个比方说

3. long-standing. 存在已久的。

4. We have three long standing rules. 我们有三个惯例。

5. high-standing prep school. 名望高的预科学校。

6. rapidly rising. 迅速崛起的。

7. right-thinking Russian. 思想健全的俄罗斯人。

8. long-suffering. 长期受苦的。

9. Companies all over the world, who have fed China's long-running urban economic

boom, are already beginning to benefit from its suburban phase.

世界各地许多家为中国城市经济的持久繁荣提供了养分的公司，今天已经开始从

中国城市的郊区发展中得到好处。

10. Nike and Adidas continued their long-running battle for sneaker supremacy this

year.

耐克公司和阿迪达斯公司今年仍在继续他们旷日持久的争夺运动鞋霸主地位的搏斗。

11. the ever-flowing traffic. 川流不息的车辆及人。

12. a never-ending supply/ the never-ending fight. 持久的供应/持久的战斗。

13. in an ever-growing number of supermarket. 不断增长的超市数量。

14. Then, gradually at first but with ever-increasing momentum, came the social

avalanche which swept away the last traces of village life and transformed life for

everybody, everywhere.

之后，社会剧变逐渐发生并以迅速增强的势头来临，彻底扫除了“农村生活”的最

后的一丝痕迹，并改变了每个人、每一处的生活。

15. Because methane has been one of the fastest-growing green-house gases, and is

third only to carbon dioxide and water vapor in total volume, changing the chemistry

of the upper atmosphere.

因为甲烷一直是增长速度最快的温室气体之一，它在大气中的总含量仅次于二氧

化碳和水蒸气，使高空大气层的化学成分都发生了变化。

16. never-resting mind. 永不止息的思想。

17. a well-deserving pillar. 中流砥柱。

18. my quick-thinking wife. 我的思维敏捷的妻子。

19. Earlier in the morning, I might hesitate to disturb my late-rising wife, who relished

her weekend sleep-ins.

一大清早，我会犹豫是否要去打搅晚起的妻子——她喜欢周末睡个懒觉。

拓展学习：a very early riser/ morning person/early rising person

20. a slow-moving river. 缓缓流淌的小河。