VI. Study of Words and Phrases
New Words and Old Words
Teacher: When I say a word or an expression you've learned before, respond with the new one in this text.
Teacher Students
(Old Words or Expressions) (New Words or Expressions)
to persuade or cause to believe convince
of small importance slight
affecting power influence
an area of land or field territory
data in number form statistics
of or relating to society social
being the same equal
to make evident indirectly or to imply suggest
although while
adequate to meet a requirement or standard acceptable
scientific study or investigation research
clear or obvious apparent
to bring to an end or to finish complete
to find an answer or solution to solve
a fact or sign that makes one believes sth. evidence
well above average; extraordinary exceptional
to give, to provide supply
to show, to make known reveal
to be likely, to have a tendency tend
to state sth. is true or to declare openly claim
to keep something for special use reserve
trust or faith in a person or a thing confidence
to consider, to think of regard
to stay clear of, to keep from avoid
the act of competing, rivalry competition
Teacher Students
(Old Words or Expressions) (New Words or Expressions)
to think of or produce (idea, reply or solution) come up with
to explain with biological reasons biological explanations
to show or to tell by mentioning point out
when one is born at birth
to take care of and educate (a child) as he grows up
bring up
view… as… think of… as…
to be unable to do math well be hopeless at math
things happened when they are children childhood experience
to make happen as a result lead to
extraordinary scientists in mathematics exceptional mathematicians
you may find it interesting interestingly
to discover or reveal by study or investigation find out
to compete with … openly be in open competition with
English and Chinese Phrases
Teacher: When I say a phrase or an expression in Chinese, try to find an English equivalent in the text.
Teacher (Chinese) Students (English)
提出，拿出 come up with
从生物学角度的解释 biological explanations
有足够说服力 convincing enough
指出 point out
出生时 at birth
抚养，培养，抚育 bring up
认为这些科目是男生的领地 to think of these subjects as boys' ‘territory'
对数学一筹莫展 be hopeless at math
可追溯到 … goes as far back as …
儿时经历 childhood experience
独立工作 work on their own
导致，引发 lead to
以后的生活 later on in life
杰出的数学家 exceptional mathematicians
他们自己想出、发现（答案等） find out for themselves
一个有关数学教学的深层报告 a further report on maths teaching
参与该研究 take part in the study
倾向于，往往会 tend to
有趣的是 interestingly
而是出于社会原因 but for social reasons
公开地与 … 竞争 be in open competition with
显得不够娇柔进而降低魅力 appear less feminine and so, less attractive
Vocabulary File
Man & Woman
       female feminine girl miss lady fiancée wife
male masculine boy mister gentleman fiancé husband
      daughter sister aunt niece grandma bride
son brother uncle nephew grandpa bridegroom
       actress waitress hostess heroine princess queen mistress
actor waiter host hero prince king master
Sentence Making in Dialogues
Teacher: Now I'd like you to complete the following dialogues by making sentences with the given phrases:
come up with
1. Why do the biologists carry out the research?
(They want to come up with an explanation for the phenomenon.)
2. What did the teacher ask the students do?
(She asked them to come up with as many answers as they can to the question.)
3. Why wasn't the manager satisfied with his secretary?
(She didn't come up with a workable plan.)
bring up
• Why do people give more chances to man?
(Because they brought up to think man is more capable.)
• Li Ming seems to have a special emotion to his father.
(Yes. That's because he has been solely brought up by his father since his mother died at his birth.)
• What did the president say at the meeting?
(Actually he just brought up some questions for us to think about and discuss.)
lead to
• Where does this road go?
(It leads directly to downtown.)
• Why was the mother so worried about the boy's illness? It's only a bad cold.
(Well, the doctor said it may lead to pneumonia if his temperature goes above 40 degrees.)
• I didn't expect Dalian Football Team would lose the game.
(Nobody did. I think it was their own pride that led to the defeat.)
find out
• Why is he in such a hurry?
(He wants to find out the cause for the power failure as soon as possible.)
• What shall we do next?
(We will have to find out more about it before we carry out another experiment.)
• Has the new drug been put to use?
(Not yet. We are going to do more tests to find out if it's really safe.)
take part in
• Why has he been training so hard lately?
(He is to take part in the school Sports Meet next weekend.)
• How is the annual debate this year in your university?
(It's great! Almost all the classes took part in and the competition was really tense.)
• Were you nervous on the final debate?
(Not at all. That was my second time to take part in the final.)
tend to
• What's wrong with your car?
(I don't know, but it tends to get overheat.)
• What did he say about Nancy ?
(He said she is nice but tends to talk too much.)
• How could you recover so rapidly?
(In addition to good treatment, I was also well tended to. ) |
