Unit one At the Airport

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Language points:
  1.(it is) no/small/little wonder…: spoken, used to say you are not surprised by something ( 口语用法,通常表示说话人对某件事情不感到吃惊)
eg: He has done a great deal for the exam. No wonder he passes it. 他为考试作了充分准备,及格肯定没问题。
  2.no sooner had/has/is /does…than…, used to say something happened almost immediately after something else, 刚一…就,指两件事情几乎同时发生,常用倒装句
例如:No sooner had he sat down than the phone rang. (他刚一坐下电话就响了)
本文中用在陈述句,意义与as soon as 接近, 意思是说“游客的忙碌程度可想而知,他一踏上异国土地,便匆忙赶往酒店,然后趁着夜色在导游的指引下即刻踏上城市观光的旅程“
  3.In the morning, he goes through the arduous course of sightseeing…part of the country.
go through: to experience 经历,
arduous: tiring,requiring great efforts (费劲的,令人疲惫的)
sightseeing: visiting the sights of interest 观光,
off: adv. 离开
This sentence tells how busy a tourist would be.Being busy with visiting scenic spots, he has no time to rest, even he has no way to know where his next hotel is before leaving for another place. (本句讲述了游客的繁忙程度,由于马不停蹄的观光,因此没有时间休息恢复,甚至在动身前往另一个地方之前,都不知晓下一站的酒店位于何方)
  4. bird’s eye view: 鸟瞰 snapshot: 快照;快拍
  5.sort out: 整理:挑选出:It here means to pick out the good from the photos taken in hurry (本文指从仓促拍摄的照片中挑出好的)
eg.It took us all day to sort out all the paperwork.(我们花了一整天来整理这些文件)


 
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