Lesson 86 Out of control
Lesson 86 Out of control
中文
失控
当那人试图让快艇转弯时，方向盘脱手了。
他绝望地向他的伙伴挥手，他的伙伴在过去的15分钟里一直在滑水。
他们两个还没来得及意识到究竟发生了什么事情，就被猛地抛入了海里。
快艇撞上了一个浮标，但它仍在水面上快速行驶着。
两个人刚开始向岸边游去，就突然惊愕地发现快艇正在转着圈行驶，它现在正以惊人的速度直冲他们驶来。
不到1分钟的工夫，它从离他们只有几英尺远的地方呼啸着驶了过去。
快艇过去之后，他们以最快的速度向前游去，因为他们知道快艇马上就要转回来。
他们刚刚来得及游出危险区，快艇就又转完了一圈。
然而这一次它的速度慢多了。
汽油几乎已经用光。
没过多久，噪音便彻底消失，快艇开始在水面上慢悠悠地漂流。
英文
As the man tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering [ˈstɪərɪŋ] wheel [wiːl] came away in his hands.
He waved [weɪvd] desperately [ˈdespərətli] to his companion [kəmˈpænjən], who had been water skiing [ˈskiːɪŋ] for the last fifteen minutes.
Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening when they were thrown violently [ˈvaɪələntli] into the sea.
The speedboat had struck a buoy [bɔɪ], but it continued to move very quickly across the water.
Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore, when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in circle. It now came straight [streɪt] towards them at tremendous [trəˈmendəs] speed.
In less than a minute, it roared [rɔːd] past them only a few feet away.
After it had passed, they swam on as quickly as they could because they knew that the boat would soon return.
They had just had enough time to swim out of danger when the boat again completed a circle [ˈsɜːk(ə)l].
On this occasion, however, it has slowed [sləʊd] down considerably [kənˈsɪdərəbli].
The petrol had nearly all been used [juːst] up.
Before long, the noise dropped [drɒpt] completed and the boat began [bɪˈɡæn] to drift [drɪft] gently [ˈdʒentli] across the water.
分析
As the man tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering wheel came away in his hands.
- complex sentence:
- as the man tried to swing the speedboat round
- as + clause
[adverbial of time] - the man tried to swing the speedboat round
- the man
[subject] - tried to do
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - to swing the speedboat round
[to-do as object]
- the man
- as + clause
- the steering wheel came away in his hands
- the steering wheel
[subject] - came away
[predicate verb phrase] - in his hands
[adverbial of manner]
- the steering wheel
- as the man tried to swing the speedboat round
- knowledge:
- try + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. 试着...; 尽力...
- come + away
- v. 脱开
- in + the + hand
- prep. 在手中, 在手头; 在掌握中, 在控制下;可使用的; 在支配下的; 在保护下的; 办理中的, 进行中的; 考虑中的
- come + 副词性介词
- vi. 过来..., 来..., 到达..., 出现..., 开始...
- try + to + do. + (sth.)
He waved desperately to his companion , who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes.
- complex sentence:
- He waved desperately to his companion
- he
[subject] - waved
[predicate verb phrase] - desperately
[adverbial of manner] - to his companion
[adverbial of purpose]
- he
- who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes
- who
[subject] - had been water skiing
[predicate verb phrase][paste perfect tense] - for the last fifteen minutes
[adverbial of time]
- who
- He waved desperately to his companion
- knowledge:
- companion
- n. 朋友, 陪伴, 指南, 升降口围罩
- wave + to + sb.
- companion
Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening when they were thrown violently into the sea.
- complex sentence:
- Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening
- both men
[subject] - had hardly had
[predicate verb phrase] - time to realize what was happening
- both men
- when were thrown violently into the sea
- were thrown {
[propositional object phrase]}[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - violently
[adverbial] - into the sea
[prepositional object phrase]
- were thrown {
- Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening
- knowledge:
- time + to + do. + (sth.)
- n. ...(做某事)的时间
- realize +
[object clause]- v. 理解...; 领会...; 认识到...; 意识到...
- throw + sth.① + into + sth.②
- v. 把...[扔/丢]进...; 让...[处于/陷入]...[之中]
- v. (be.) 被[扔/丢]进...
- time + to + do. + (sth.)
The speedboat had struck a buoy , but it continued to move very quickly across the water.
- compound sentence:
- the speedboat had struck a buoy
- the speedboat
[subject] - had struck
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - a buoy
[object]
- the speedboat
- but
- it continued to move very quickly across the water
- it
[subject] - continued to do
[predicate verb phrase] - to move very quickly across the water
[to-do as object]- move across
[verb phrase] - very quickly
[adverbial] - the water
[object]
- move across
- it
- the speedboat had struck a buoy
- knowledge:
- continue + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. 继续做某事
- continue + to + do. + (sth.)
Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore, when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in circle.
- compound sentence:
- Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore
- both men
[subject] - had just begun to do
[predicate verb phrase] - to swim towards the shore
[to-do as object]- swim
[verb phrase] - towards she shore
[prepositional object phrase]
- swim
- both men
- when they noticed with dismay that the speedboat was moving in circle
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - they
[subject] - noticed that + clause
[predicate verb phrase] - with dismay
[adverbial of manner] - that the speedboat was moving in circle
[object clause]- the speedboat
[subject] - was moving `[past continuous tense]
- in circle
[adverbial of manner]
- the speedboat
- when + clause
- Both men had just begun to swim towards the shore
- knowledge:
- begin + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. 开始...(做某事)
- swim + prep. + sth.
- vi. 游泳..., 游..., 漂浮..., 浸..., 覆盖..., 充溢..., 大量拥有..., 旋转..., 眩晕...
- begin + to + do. + (sth.)
It now came straight towards them at tremendous speed.
- simple sentence:
- It
[subject] - now
[adverbial] - straight
[adverbial] - came
[predicate verb phrase] - towards them
[prepositional object phrase] - at tremendous speed
[adverbial of manner]
- It
- knowledge:
- come + prep. + sth.
- vi. 过来..., 来..., 到达..., 出现..., 开始...
- come + prep. + sth.
In less than a minute, it roared past them only a few feet away.
- complex sentence: 不到一分钟，它就从他们身边呼啸而过，离他们只有几英尺远。
- In less than a minute
[adverbial of time] - it roared past them only a few feet away
- it
[subject] - roared
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - past them
[object] - only a few feet away
[adverbial]
- it
- In less than a minute
- knowledge:
- roar + away
- v. 呼啸而去
- roar + away
After it had passed, they swam on as quickly as they could because they knew that the boat would soon return.
- complex sentence:
- After it had passed
[adverbial clause of time]- after + clause
- it had passed
- they swam on as quickly as they could because they knew that the boat would soon return
- they
[subject] - swam on
[predicate verb phrase] - because they knew that the boat would soon return
[adverbial clause of cause]- they knew that the boat would soon return
- they
[subject] - knew
[predicate verb phrase] - that the boat would soon return
- the boat
[subject] - would soon return
[predicate verb phrase]
- the boat
- they
- they knew that the boat would soon return
- they
- After it had passed
- knowledge:
- as + adv. + as + 比较状语从句
They had just had enough time to swim out of danger when the boat again completed a circle.
- complex sentence:
- they had just had enough time to swim out of danger
- they
[subject] - had just had
[predicate verb phrase] - enough time to swim out of danger
[object]- enough time to do
- swim
[predicate verb phrase] - out of danger
[prepositional object phrase]
- they
- when the boat again completed a circle
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - the boat again completed a circle
- the boat
[subject] - again
[adverbial] - completed
[predicate verb phrase] - a circle
[object]
- the boat
- when + clause
- they had just had enough time to swim out of danger
- knowledge:
- out + of + danger
- prep. 脱离危险
- out + of + danger
On this occasion, however, it has slowed down considerably
- complex sentence:
- on this occasion
[adverbial of time] - it has slowed down considerably
- it
[subject] - has slowed down
[predicate verb phrase] - considerably
- it
- on this occasion
- knowledge:
- slow + down
- v. (使)慢下来
- considerably
- adv. 非常地, 很, 颇
- slow + down
The petrol had nearly all been used up.
- simple sentence:
- the petrol
[subject] - had been used up
[predicate verb phrase] - nearly all
- the petrol
- knowledge:
- use + up + sth.
- vt. 用完, 耗尽
- use + up + sth.
Before long, the noise dropped completed and the boat began to drift gently across the water.
- compound sentence:
- before long 没过多久
- the noise dropped completed
- the noise
[subject] - dropped
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - completed
[adverbial]
- the noise
- and
- the boat began to drift gently across the water
- the boat
[subject] - began to do
[predicate verb phrase] - to drift gently across the water
[to-do as object]- drift {}
[verb phrase] - across the water
[prepositional object phrase]
- drift {}
- the boat
- knowledge:
- drift + prep. + sth.
- vi. 漂流...
- begin + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. 开始...(做某事)
- drift + prep. + sth.
- came away 脱离、逃离
- on this occasion. 这一次
- use up 用光、耗尽
- out of 缺乏、缺失
- out of control
- out of breath
- out of date
- out of sight
- out of work
- out of danger.
- try to do sth 努力做某事
- try doing sth 尝试做某事
- wave to sb 向某人挥手
- had been doing 过去完成进行时
- 从偶去的某一时刻开始一直持续进行的某个动作，这个动作可能刚完成，也可能仍在进行中。
- be thrown into 被抛入
- roar past 呼啸而过
- in less than a week
- before long 不久之后