1. 2 相当于一个形容词

1. Hundred Years of Solitude 《百年孤独》。

2. New York can not look back on (追溯)millennia of development and history. 

纽约没有上千年的发展历史。 

3.The dentist saw many nights of desperation in his dull eyes. 

他迟钝的目光告诉牙医，他已经经历了多个绝望之夜。

4. generation after generation of American school children. 一代又一代的美国小学生。

5. a Dickens of a Christmas. 狄更斯的圣诞节。 

6. universals of development. 发展共性。

7. later emergence of. 后来出现的。 

8. a large choice of vegetables. 各种各样的蔬菜。

9. Christopher Columbus and his discovery of Americas. 

克里斯托弗.哥伦布和他发现的美洲大陆。 

10. Mozart had the single-mindedness of genius. He seemed born to create music.

莫扎特对音乐特别有天分，他似乎是为创造音乐而生。 

11. see a raise of hands. 看见举起的手。 

12. an economy of language and a music of words and an honesty of meaning.

简洁的语言，动人的韵律、真挚的含义。

13. One sculpture, the Japanese Peace Bell, was made from the metal of coins collected from 60 different countries.

一尊被称作日本和平钟的雕塑，使用从 60 个国家收集到的金属硬币做的。

14. He looked like the prototype of the genius. 他就是典型的天才。 

15. lifetime of reading. 一生的阅读。

16. immortality of fame. 永载史册。

17. Children are easily influenced by the contagiousness of laughter. 

孩子很容易受到有感染力的笑的影响。 

18. compression of ideas. 言简意赅。 

19. Google turns the Big 10 years old on Sept. 7 and there are no shortage of stories in a decade, as well as comparisons to how Google fared compared to Microsoft’s first 10 years. 2008 年 9 月 7 号，谷歌迎来了 10 周年重大庆典。关于这个公司在以往 10 年中所取得成 就的报道以数不胜数，有些报道将谷歌与微软最初 10 年的奋斗历程进行了比较。

20. There was a world of meaning in this simple comment. 这个简单的评论寓意无穷。

21. They had a difference of opinion over who should drive, but Sue won in the end. 由谁来驾驶，他们意见不一，最后苏获得胜利。 

22. the broad expansion of the Pacific. 浩瀚的太平洋。

23. Lying by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven. 

躺在游泳池边看一本好书是我心目中的天堂。

24. She promptly shepherded them out of the crowded living room and into the privacy of library. 

她立即把他们领出拥挤的客厅，带到没人注意的图书馆去。 细心的读者会发现上面短语中的 of 都相当于汉语的“的”，这个"名词加 of"也相当于一 个形容词。

词 汇 积 累 

1. acceptance n 接受

a. a market acceptance risk. 市场认可度风险。

b. I want to hear his acceptance speech.(Obama) 我想听听总统的受命演说。

c. acceptance letter. 录取书。

d. Praise or acceptance. 表扬或接受。

e. his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. 他的诺贝尔获奖感言。 

这里也涉及到一种组词规律，前面的“Nobel Prize acceptance”是一个逻辑上的动宾短语 用作定语。 

2. access n 机会或方法；通路

a.What access to the past would be? 通过什么途径了解过去？

b. control access between Europe and Asia. 控制欧洲和亚洲之间往来。

c. access point to Central Asia. 通往中亚门户。

d. It is our surface access to central Asia. 

通往中亚的唯一陆路。 学习这个词单时，注意其后面的介词对应汉语的“通过”、“之间”“通往”。 

3. account n 叙述；账目；账户 

a. Her account of nodding daffodils beside Ullswater, after an idyllic spring 1802 walk, inspired her brother’s most famous poem. 

1802 年一个田园诗般的的春天，她在厄尔斯沃特湖畔漫步之后，记录下了那些舞动的水 仙，这为她哥哥创作著名的田园诗提供了灵感。 

b. retirement account. 退休帐户（与汉语思维一致）。

c. to settle old accounts with. 算旧账。 

d. without setting account or a timetable. 不制定任何计划或时间表。 

4. accountability n 责任 

a. chain of accountability. 问责链。 

b. accountability condition. 问责条件。 

c.There has been an absence of accountability. 没有问责制。

上面的结构与汉语思维模式顺序一致。

5. acid n 酸 acid and base. 酸碱。