Lesson 37 The Olympic Games

中文

4年以后，奥林匹克运动会将在我们国家举行。

由于将有大批的人到我们国家来，所以政府准备建造一些新的饭店、一个大型体育场和一个新的奥运会标准游泳池。

他们还将修筑一些新的道路和一条铁路专线。

奥运会就在首都市郊举办，整个地区将被称作“奥林匹克城”。

工人们将在今年年底前把新路铺好；到明年年底，他们将把新体育场建成。

这些巨大的现代化建筑是由库尔特.冈特设计的。

大家都将急切地注视着新建筑的建成。

我们都非常激动，盼望着奥运会的到来，因为在这个国家里还从未举办过奥运会。

英文

The Olympic [əˈlɪmpɪk] Games will be held [held] in our country in four years' time.

As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense [ɪˈmens] stadium [ˈsteɪdiəm], and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool [puːl].

They will also be building new roads and a special railway line.

The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be called 'Olympic City'.

Workers will have completed the new roads [rəʊdz] by the end of this year.

By the end of next [nekst] year [jɪə(r)], they will have finished work on the new stadium.

The fantastic [fænˈtæstɪk] modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter.

Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up.

We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.

分析

The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years' time.

• simple sentence:
  • The Olympic Games [subject]
  • will be held [predicate verb phrase] [future simple tense] [passive form of verb]
  • in our county [adverbial of place]
  • in four years' time [adverbial of time]
• knowledge:
  • in four years' time 四年后

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As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool.

• complex sentence:
  • as a great many people will be visiting the country
    • as + clause [adverbial clause of time]
    • a great many people [subject]
    • will be visiting [predicate verb phrase] [future continuous tense]
    • the country [object]
  • the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool.
    • the government [subject]
    • will be building [predicate verb phrase] [future continuous tense]
    • new hotels [object]
• knowledge:
  • a + great + many + sth.
    • n. 大量的...

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They will also be building new roads and a special railway line.

• simple sentence:
  • They [subject]
  • will also be building [future continuous tense]
  • new roads and a special railway line [object]

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The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be call 'Olympic City'.

• compound sentence:
  • The Games will be held just outside the capital
    • The Games [subject]
    • will be held [predicate verb phrase] [future simple tense] [passive form of verb]
    • just outside the capital [adverbial of place]
  • and
  • The whole area will be called 'Olympic city'
    • The whole area [subject]
    • will be called [predicate verb phrase] [future simple tense] [passive form of verb]
    • 'Olympic city' [object]

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Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year.

• simple sentence:
  • Workers [subject]
  • will have completed [predicate verb phrase] [future perfect tense]
  • the new roads [object]
  • by the end of this year [adverbial of time]
• knowledge:
  • by + the + end + of + sth.
    • prep. 在...前, 到...结束的时候

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By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium.

• complex sentence:
  • By the end of next year [adverbial of time]
  • they will have finished work on the new stadium
    • they [subject]
    • will have finished [predicate verb phrase] [future perfect tense]
    • work [object]
    • on the new stadium [adverbial of purpose]
• knowledge:
  • finish + one's + work
    • v. 结束工作

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The fantastic modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter.

• simple sentence:
  • The fantastic modern buildings [subject]
  • have been designed [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense] [passive form of verb]
  • by Kurt Gunter [adverbial of manner]

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Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up.

• complex sentence:
  • Everybody will be watching anxiously
    • everybody [subject]
    • will be watching [predicate verb phrase] [future continuous tense] [passive form of verb]
    • anxiously [adverbial of manner]
  • as the new buildings go up
    • as + clause [adverbial clause of time]
      • the new buildings [subject]
      • go up [predicate verb phrase]
• knowledge:
  • go + up
    • v. 上升; 兴建; 前往; 起火; 爆炸; 响起

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We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.

• complex sentence:
  • we are all very excited
    • we [subject]
    • are [be verb]
    • very excited [predicative] [adjective]
  • and
  • We are looking to the Olympic Games
    • we [subject]
    • are looking forward to [predicate verb phrase] [present continuous tense]
    • the Olympic Games [subject]
  • because they have never been held before in this country
    • because + clause
      • they [subject]
      • have never been held [present perfect tense] [passive form of verb]
      • before in this country [adverbial of place]
• knowledge:
  • be. + very + excited
  • never + do.
    • v. 从来不...; 绝不可以...
  • before
    • adv. 在以前
  • look forward to
    • 期望、盼望。to是介词，可以接名词、代词、动名词。

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• the Olympic Games
• in four years' time 4年之后
• As a great many people...
  • as 是连词，当“因为”讲时，引出原因状语从句。
• Olympic-standard swimming pool
• Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year。
  • 将来完成时，用来表示将来某一时刻已经完成的动作。
• as the new building go up，
  • as 连词，当、正值，引导时间状语从句。
  • 时间状语从句中，一般现在时表示将来。
• look forward to
  • 期望、盼望。to是介词，可以接名词、代词、动名词。
• by the end of this year
  • by 方式方法
  • by 动态语态 + 动作发出者
  • by + 时间 截止到为止。
• 将来完成时：
  • 形式：will、shall + have done
  • 用法：截止到将来，回到往之前看。