新概念英语第三册 Lesson54(4)

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第四部分 LANGUAGE POINTS
1.背熟：We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths.
词组:
in dread: in fear
in dread of
联想记忆:
in the thought that / in the hope that
in / under
Eg: Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is much more veautiful.
说明: 在使用not only..., but (also ) ... (as well) 句型时，要突出介词短语或动词短语中的介词，则此介词要重复出现。
Eg: I live in dread not only of dogs, but of cats.
2.Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
时间状语从句
词组:
in a highly organized society
Eg: We live in a highly organized society.
does nothing to do
Eg: Doing so does nothing to prevent me from hating you.
prevent sb. from doing sth.
Eg: Nothing will prevent me from saying so.
Whatever you say does nothing to prevent me from attaining / accomplish my goal.