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description: 新概念英语第二册：What's for supper?。精读、词块回忆、双向译练、句法、逻辑与FSRS复习。
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# 晚餐吃什么？

## 课文学习台 {#study}

### 第1段

Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive. So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work. Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length. Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs. As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water. Who eats who?

中文理解：炸鱼柳和薯条一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，但是由于对海洋的过度捕捞，鱼肉已经变得越来越昂贵。因此，听说北海石油钻井平台上的潜水员受到巨型鱼类的恐吓，确实很让人吃惊。钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员常常要在水下100英尺摸黑工作，他们曾在工作时被撞到他们身上的大鱼吓得惊惶失措。现在他们请人特制了笼子，用来保护他们免受这些庞然大物的侵袭。这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或虎鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大，有时长达12英尺。 这些鱼能长得这么大是由3个因素造成的：海底炽热的输油管道使周围海水变暖；平台上的工作人员不断把食物抛进海里；平台周围又没有渔船捕捞。结果是，这些鱼就在可爱的温暖的水流中吃呀吃，长呀长。究竟谁吃谁呢？

* **a surprise**：意外 / 在某岁时 / 贫困中；结合原句看 surprise 是感受还是意外的事，年龄用 at。

* **As a result**：因此；结果；结果必须由前文支撑；它不是让论述显得高级的装饰词。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

0. 标题

What's for supper? 特殊疑问句，介词短语作表语.

#### 1. Fish and chips has been a dish, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become

expensive.

并列复合句，but 连接前后两个句子，前句为主系表结构，后句的主句也是主系表结构，不过有一个as 引导的原因状语从句，为主谓结构. 这里的fish and chips 就是西餐的鱼柳和薯条. overfished 在这里是动词的被动语态.

#### 2. it comes to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers.

复合句，it 是形式主语，后面动词不定式短语为真正的主语，这个主语中有一个 that 引导的宾语从句，属于主语内部的进一步分析.

#### 3. Oil rigs have to be repaired and divers, who have to work… have been frightened… as they work.

并列复合句，本句结构较为复杂，and 连接前后两句，前句为主谓结构；and 后句是一个复合句，主干是divers have been…，只不过中间有一个who 引导的非限制性定语从句修饰divers，为主谓结构，最后面还有一个as 引导的时间状语从句，主谓结构.

#### 4. they have had cages made.

简单句，主谓宾 + 宾补的结构，have sth. done，不过这里的时态是现在完成时，故而第一个have 是起语法作用的，第二个have 是有实际意义的动词，所以转为过去分词had. 本课的关键句型就是have 的各种时态，可以按照教材上的关键句型复习第 18课，第42课和第66课.

#### 5. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties which grow…

并列复合句，这里but 连接前后两个句子，前句为主系表结构，而but 后面所连接的句子省略了主系成分，只简写了表语，而该表语被一个which 所引导的定语从句修饰，该定语从句为主谓结构.

#### 6. factors have caused fish to grow…

简单句，主句是主谓宾 + 宾补结构，后面是一连串的同位语，相当于是补充factors 的具体内容.

本句一定要背下来，并且学会在作文中使用. 这种表达非常地道.

#### 例: I think two additional factors have caused Americans \<to feel crappy about their

economy>. 我认为还有两点因素导致了美国人认为其经济糟糕. \[crappy adj. of very bad quality 劣质的；蹩脚的；糟糕的，其比较级为crappier，最高级为crappiest]

#### 7. the fish eat and eat and (the fish) grow and grow…

并列句，此处补充了and 后句所省略的主语，这样可以理解该句三个and 的层次 情况，第一个and 和第三个and 起谓语之中的连接作用；第二个and 才是连接两个句子的作用.

#### 8. Who eats who?

简单句，主谓宾结构，这里的疑问句是对于到底是鱼儿吃钻井平台的人们投喂的饲料呢，还是鱼儿本身就是要被人类吃的，到底是谁吃谁.

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