情景会话口袋书人际篇116:栽花种草(4)

 　　13. It's easy to keep cacti¹.

　　仙人掌很好养活。

　　还能这样说：

　　Cacti can be easily kept.

　　It's not difficult to keep cacti alive.

　　应用解析：

　　in bad keep 保存得不好；

　　in good keep 保存得好；

　　keep from 避开；禁止；隐瞒；

　　keep on with 继续

　　14. Can you give me some advice about how to plant camellia?

　　关于养茶花你能提些建议吗？

　　还能这样说：

　　Could you tell me how to grow camellia well?

　　Can you teach the methods of growing camellia?

　　谚语：

　　Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.

　　得到忠告的人很多，唯智者能从中受益。

　　15. We have a grassy² lawn in our garden.

　　我们的花园里有绿草如茵的草坪。

　　还能这样说：

　　You can see a green turf in our garden.

　　Our garden is covered with grassy lawn.

　　谚语：

　　The neighbor's lawn is green.

　　邻家的草坪绿（老婆别人的好）。

　　16. Keep off the grass, please!

　　请勿践踏草坪！

　　还能这样说：

　　You're not supposed to walk on the grass.

　　You are not allowed to walk on the lawn.

　　应用解析：

　　cut one's own grass 自食其力；

　　cut the grass from under sb.'s feet 妨碍某人；拆某人的台；

　　hear the grass grow 特别敏锐

　　17. The flowers have withered³ away.

　　花谢了。

　　还能这样说：

　　The flowers have fallen and scattered⁴ about.

　　The flowers have sicken.

　　应用解析：

　　the flower of the youth of the country 国家的优秀青年；

　　no flowers (by request) 花圈敬辞；

　　as welcome as flowers in May 极受欢迎的

1 cacti   

n.（复）仙人掌

参考例句：

• There we could see nothing but cacti.那里除了仙人掌我们什么也看不到。
• Cacti can survive the lack of rainfall in the desert.仙人掌在降水稀少的沙漠中也能生存下去。

2 grassy   

adj.盖满草的；长满草的

参考例句：

• They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
• Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。

3 withered   

adj. 枯萎的，干瘪的，（人身体的部分器官）因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
• The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。

4 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。