11.1.5 high/highly +过去分词

1. “You do what you can, and I think a lot of us are still searching for what to do with

what we have,” says basketball star Kevin Garnett, the highest-paid player in the

NBA, who has committed to funding the construction of three to four houses amonth

for Katrina victims over the next two years.

篮球巨星凯文·加内特，这位 NBA 薪酬最高的球员这样说到“尽你所能吧，我认为我

们中许多人都在思考如何尽自己的微薄之力。”他承诺在未来两年内为卡特里娜飓风

受害者提供资助建设三到四处房屋。

2. highly-paid manager. 高薪经理。

3. highly developed sense of smell. 高度灵敏的嗅觉。

4. highly and elaborately rhetorically ornamented passages. 带有精美修辞的段落。

5. That it was not only the public at large（一般来说） that was in ignorance of

everything concerning her; the inner circles of statesmen and officials and high-born

ladies were equally in the dark. When she suddenly emerged from this deep

obscurity, the impression that she first created was immediate and profound.

一般来说，不只是公众对她的事一无所知，就连圈内的政客、官员们及一些出身

高贵的太太们也同样蒙在鼓里。当她突然之间从默默无闻中冒了出来，首先造成的

影响是直接的和深远的。

6. The high-flown language bespoke not a shade of increased American commitment.

讲话的调子很高，但并不证明美国人的许诺有一点点增加。

词 汇 积 累

1. fancy n 幻想；想象力；爱好

She was a fairy princess who had taken a fancy to a little boy, clothed him, petted

him, turned him from a duckling into a swan.

她是一个仙女公主，看上一个小男孩，供他衣服，宠爱他，使他从一个丑小鸭变

为天鹅。

2. farm n 农场；农家；畜牧场

farm machinery. 农业机械。

3. fashion n 时尚；时装；样式；时髦人物

a. out of fashion/ outdated. 过时的。

b. in fashion. 合于时尚，流行。

c. fashion world. 时尚界。

4. fate n 命运

a. No matter how young or old, they could not escape the fate of being raped.

无论年迈妇女或年幼少女都逃不过被强奸的命运。

b. ill fated marriage. 倒霉的婚姻。

c. There is an ideology perhaps that people are in charge of their own fate.

有一种思想认为人主宰自己的命运。

d. It must be a fate. 真是缘分。

f. They had accepted their failure, but they couldn't accept their fate.

他们虽然接受了失败，但他们没有认命。

5. faucet n 旋塞；插口. 水龙头

Turn on the faucet. 打开水龙头。