第一、迷你对话
A: I heard several people were killed in the car accident.
我听说那场车祸中死了好几个人。
B: Twelve, to be exact.
确切地说是12个。
A: How do you know it clearly?
你怎么知道这么清楚？
B: I was walking along the road that day. So it happened under my very eyes.
那天我正好走在街上，亲眼看到的。
第二、对话精讲
1.地道表达
【地道短语】under one’s very eyes
【解词释义】very在这里是个强调词，相同于same或identical，所以under one’s every eyes的意思就是“亲眼所见”。
【支持范例-1】They stole the jewels under my very eyes.
他们就在我眼皮底下偷走了珠宝。
【支持范例-2】I was standing by the side of the road, so the accident happened under my very eyes.
我当时正站在马路边，事故就发生在我的眼前。
2.词海拾贝
to be exact：具体地说
【例句-1】It happened late last century in 1895, to be exact.
事情发生在上个世纪末--准确地说, 在1895年.
【例句-2】He is, to be exact, sixteen years old, and is not old enough to join the army.
确切地说，他才十六岁，还没达到参军的年龄。
walk along：沿着......行走
【例句-1】We felt exhilarated by our walk along the beach.
我们沿着海滩散步感到心旷神怡。
【例句-2】I take a walk along the bank every morning.
我每天早晨在岸上散步。
in the accident：在事故中
【例句-1】He was seriously injured in the accident and died several days later.
他在那次事故中受了重伤,几天后就死了。
【例句-2】He lost the use of both legs in the accident.
他在事故中双腿丧失了功能。 |