Lesson 94 Future champions
Lesson 94 Future champions
中文
未来的冠军
实验证明，儿童在很小的时候就可以开始学习游泳。
在洛杉矶的一个特设的游泳池里，孩子们甚至在还没有学会走路时就已经能熟练地在水下屏住呼吸了。
两个月的婴儿并未显得不愿意入水。
他们很快便适应了游泳，以致能捡起池底的物品。
这些幼小的游泳运动员非常喜爱的一种游戏是水下三轮车比赛。
三轮车并排放在7英尺深的游泳池底上。
孩子们比赛看谁先到达游泳池的另一端。
很多孩子用脚蹬车，但多数孩子更愿意推或是拉着三轮车。
有些孩子能够跑完游泳池的全长而不用露出水面换气。
他们将来是否能成为奥林匹克的冠军，这只能由时间来作出回答。
与此同时，他们对我们中的那些游不了5码就已喘不过气来的人应该是种鼓舞。
英文
Future [ˈfjuːtʃə(r)] champions [ˈtʃæmpiənz].
Experiments [ɪkˈsperɪm(ə)nts] have proved [pruːvd] that children can be instructed [ɪnˈstrʌktɪd] in swimming at very early age.
At a special swimming pool in Los [lɔːs] Angeles ['ændʒələs], children become expert [ˈekspɜːt] at holding their breath [breθ] under water even before they can walk.
Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant [rɪˈlʌktənt] enter the water.
It is not long before they are so accustomed [əˈkʌstəmd] to swimming that they can pick up weights [weɪts] from the floor [flɔː(r)] of the pool [puːl].
A game that is very popular with these young swimmers [ˈswɪməz] is the underwater tricycle [ˈtraɪsɪk(ə)l] race.
Tricycles are lined [laɪnd] up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water.
The children complete [kəmˈpliːt] against each other to reach the other end of the pool.
Many pedal their tricycles [ˈtraɪsɪk(ə)ls], but most of them prefer [prɪˈfɜː(r)] to push or drag [dræɡ] them.
Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming [ˈkʌmɪŋ] up for breath even once.
Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell.
Meanwhile, they should encourage [ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ] those among us who cannot [ˈkænɒt] swim five yards [jɑːrdz] before they are gasping [ˈɡɑːspɪŋ] for air.
分析
Experiments have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at very early age.
- complex sentence:
- Experiments
[subject] - have proved
[predicate verb phrase][present perfect tense] - that children can be instructed in swimming at very early age
[object clause]- children
[subject] - can be instructed
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - in swimming
[object] - at every early age
[adverbial of time]
- children
- Experiments
- knowledge:
- instruct sb to do sth
- instruct sb in sth 在某方面被指导
- prove + (that) 引导的宾语从句
- vt. 证明, 查验, 检验, 勘探, 显示
- instruct + sb. + in + sth.
- v. [传授/指导]...(某人)...(做某事); 在...上指导...
At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at holding their breath under water even before they can walk.
- complex sentence:
- At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles
[adverbial of place]- at a special swimming pool
- in Los Angeles
- children become expert at holding their breath under water even before they can walk.
- children
[subject] - become
[link-verb] - expert at holding their breath under water
[predicative][noun phrase] - even before they can walk
[adverbial clause of time]- even before
[adverbial] - they
[subject] - can walk
[predicate verb phrase]
- even before
- children
- At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles
Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant enter the water.
- simple sentence:
- Babies of two months old
[subject] - enter
[predicate verb phrase] - the water
[object] - do not appear to be reluctant
[adverbial]
- Babies of two months old
- knowledge:
- did not appear to be 看来不是
- appear to be 看起来；似乎是
- be reluctant to do - be unwilling to do
It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool.
- complex sentence: .
- It is not long before + clause
- they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool.
- they
[subject] - accustomed to
[predicate verb phrase] - swimming
[object] - so ... that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. [adverbial clause]
- they
[subject] - can pick up
[predicate verb phrase] - weights
[object] - from the floor of the pool
[adverbial of place]
- they
- they
- knowledge:
- pick + up + sth.
- vt. 掘地, 捡起, 获得, 学会, 看到, 中途带, 搭乘, 重新找到, 振作, 加快, 好转, 整理
- be accustomed to + n./ doing 习惯了、适应了
- accustom + sth.① + to + sth.②
- v. 使...习惯于...
- v. (be.)习惯于...
- It is not long before 没过多久
- pick + up + sth.
A game that is very popular with these young swimmers is the underwater tricycle race.
- complex sentence:
- A game is the underwater tricycle race
- a game
[subject] - is
[be verb] - the underwater tricycle race
[predicative][noun phrase]
- a game
- that is very popular with these young swimmers
[attributive clause]=> a game- that
[subject] - is very popular with
[predicate verb phrase] - these young swimmers
[object]
- that
- A game is the underwater tricycle race
- knowledge:
- be popular with
- 为……所喜欢；受……欢迎
- be popular with
Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water.
- simple sentence:
- Tricycles
[subject] - are lined up
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - on the floor of the pool seven feet under water
[adverbial of place]- seven feet under water
[attributive]=> the pool
- seven feet under water
- Tricycles
The children complete against each other to reach the other end of the pool.
- complex sentence:
- the children
[subject] - complete against
[predicate verb phrase] - each other
[object] - to reach the other end of the pool
[adverbial of purpose]- reach
[verb phrase] - the other end of the pool
[object]
- reach
- the children
- knowledge:
- compete against sb 与某人竞争 与某人竞赛
Many pedal their tricycles, but most of them prefer to push or drag them.
- compound sentence:
- Many pedal their tricycles
- many children
[subject] - pedal
[predicate verb phrase] - their tricycles
[object]
- many children
- but
- most of them prefer to push or drag them.
- most of them
[subject] - prefer to do
[predicate verb phrase] - to push or drag them
[to-do as object]- push or drag
[verb phrase] - them
[object]
- push or drag
- most of them
- Many pedal their tricycles
Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming up for breath even once.
- complex sentence:
- some children
[subject] - can cover
[predicate verb phrase] - the whole length of the pool
[object] - without coming up for breath even once
[adverbial of accompany]- 介词 + 动名词短语
- come up
[predicate verb phrase] - for breath
[adverbial] - even once
[adverbial]
- some children
Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell.
- complex sentence:
- Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions
- whether + clause
[adverbial clause of condition] - they
[subject] - will ever become
[link verb][future simple tense] - future Olympic champions
[predicative][noun phrase]
- whether + clause
- only time will tell.
- only time
[subject] - will tell
[predicate verb phrase][future simple tense]
- only time
- Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions
Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
- complex sentence:
- meanwhile
- they should encourage those among us
- they
[subject] - should encourage
[predicate verb phrase] - those among us
[object]
- they
- who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
- who
[subject] - cannot swim
[predicate verb phrase] - five yards
[object] - before they are gasping for air
[adverbial clause of time]- they
[subject] - are gasping for
[predicate verb phrase][present continuous tense] - air
[object]
- they
- who
- lost weight 瘦了
- put on weight 胖了
- underwater swimming 潜泳
- tricycle
- complete against 与...竞争
- complete to 竞争去得到
- complete for
- yard n. 码
- ... have proved that ... 证明了
- hold their breath 屏住呼吸
- be used to + n. / doing