新概念2词汇 74-76
时间：2006-01-19 16:00:00
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Lesson 74 Out of the limelight
New words and expressions:
1. limelight
Out of the limelight
She is fond of the limelight.
The successful businessman has always been in the limelight.
2. precaution
Dressed in dark glasses and old clothes they had taken special precautions so that no one should recognize them.
They take precautions against fire in the bars.
Effective precautions have been taken to prevent children from drowning.
3. fan
No newspaper men, no film fans!
Many football fans traveled to Japan and South Korea to watch the World Cup.
Crazy fans were waiting in the rain for the arrival of their idol1.
4. shady
Meanwhile, two other actors, Rockwall Slinger2 and Merlin Greeves, had carried two large food baskets to a shady spot under some trees.
It is comfortable to sit under the shady tree.
They chatted in a shady corner of the garden.
5. sheriff
I’m sheriff here.
The sheriff was killed by his rival.
The sheriff convicted the man of murder.
6. notice
Do you see that notice?
A notice was put up at the school gate.
The notice was torn down.
7. sneer3
‘Oh, is it?’ said the sheriff with a sneer.
I was uncomfortable with his sneer.
He gave me a reply with a sneer.
Lesson 75 SOS
New words and expressions:
1. thick
Snow lay thick on the ground.
She wore thick powder.
He finished the thick novel within three days.
2. signal
Early next morning, she heard planes passing overhead and wondered how she could send a signal.
He ignored the signals from the policeman / policemen.
In ancient times soldiers sent smoke signals to exchange information.
3. stamp
She stamped out the letters ‘SOS’ in the snow.
The football player was punished for stamping on his opponent’s foot.
4. helicopter
It was not long before a helicopter arrived on the scene to rescue the survivors5 of the plane crash.
They arrived at an island in a helicopter.
Two hostages were saved by a helicopter.
5. scene
No one was at the scene of the murder at the time.
The driver fled the scene of an automobile6 accident.
6. survivor4
There were five survivors in the coal mine accident.
These survivors managed to swim to the shore.
Lesson 76 April Fools’ Day
New words and expressions:
1. fool
April Fools’ Day
Tom was made a fool of by his colleagues.
What a fool the girl in love is!
2. bulletin
‘To end our special news bulletin,’ said the voice of the television announcer, ‘we’re going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.’
The TV play was interrupted by a news bulletin.
What’s in today’s bulletin?
3. announcer
The announcer has a beautiful voice.
There is an ad for a job as a radio announcer in today’s newspaper.
4. macaroni
Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.
The Italian macaroni is very tasteful.
Macaroni is served in the Pisa hut.
5. leading
Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
Microsoft is a leading company in the software industry.
The leading killer7 among Americans is the heart attack.
6. grower
Mr. White is a successful fruit grower in this area.
One of the growers went bankrupt last year.
7. splendid
It is splendid of her to come.
He has a splendid appetite.
8. stalk
Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.
Her finger was hurt by a rose stalk.
The hat is woven with flower stalks.
9. gather
The whole village has been working day and night gathering8 and threshing this year’s crop before the September rains.
Farmers were busy gathering crops.
Little children are gathering flowers in the field.
10. thresh
In some villages farmers use a machine to thresh wheat.
They are threshing crops under the scorching9 sun.
11. process
Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.
Raw materials are processed in this factory.
The food processing has been strictly10 controlled.
12. Signor
Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.
13. present
The present manager is my former schoolmate.
The present educational system needs improvement.
14. champion
France was the champion of the last World Cup.
The table tennis world champions in men’s and women’s singles are from China.
15. studio
We’re now going back to the studio.
Look Back In Anger is being broadcast from the seventh studio.
Many celebrities11 have come to this studio to give a talk show.
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