许多人看到大段大段的英文就会产生一种恐惧感,因此在我们新手教程中,主要目的就是帮助大家消除这种恐惧感。我们先来一段简单的:
For most people,the word “fashion”means“clothes”。 But people may ask the question,“What clothes are in fashion?”And they use the adjective“fashionable” in the same way:“She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour.”
But of course there are fashions in many things,not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays,in restaurants,in filmsand books. There are even fashions in school subjects,jobs…and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past,you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper,radios,telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. Newfashions mean that people will buy new things,so you see there is money in fashion.
这段话不难,我们来逐句讲解一下。
① For most people,the word “fashion”means“clothes”。② But people may ask the question,“What clothes are in fashion?”③And they use the adjective
“fashionable” in the same way:“She was wearing a fashionable coat. ④His shirt was really a fashionable colour.”
① For出现在开头一般来说是对于,这个我们已经讲过;word是单词,它和world(世界)是形近词,新手别弄混了;标红的means有“方法、手段;意味着”的意思,在这里明显是“意味着”。Means的形近词是mean,这个单词有“意思是。。。;吝啬,刻薄;平均数”三个意思,麻烦同学们把这三个意思都记住了。
② 开头的but表示转折,这也是英语文章中常见的手段转折的方法,一般but后面的是整篇文章的重点。Adjective是形容的意思,我们英语中形容词的简写“adj”的全拼就是这个单词。
③ 开头的and说明跟前面的一句话表他同样的意思,在英语中,and之间的两个句子就跟对联一样工整。比如这句和第二句。But对and;people对there;ask对use;the question对the adjective。
④ Really表示真正的意思,属于形容词。这里教给大家一个窍门,凡是词语后面带“ly”的基本都是形容词,形容词如果看不懂可不翻译,直接理解为“非常”就可以。
全文翻译:对大多数人来说,“时尚”一词的意思是“衣服”。但人们可能会问,“什么衣服是时尚的?”他们用形容词“时尚”的方式是:“她穿着一件时髦的外套。他的衬衫真是一种时髦的颜色。”
① But of course there are fashions in many things,not only in clothes. ②There are fashions in holidays,in restaurants,in films and books. ③There are even fashions in school subjects,jobs…and in languages.
① But of course ,这个短语可以理解为:但是当然了。这个并不是在强调转折,而是强调它后面内容的正确性,有时候也可以当前句的补充。比如“你表现很好,但是你要下岗,当然了,要给你一定的补偿。”
② Restaurants的意思是餐馆,film是电影的意思,后面+s表示。它和我们常用的movie一样都表示电影。但film如果都用“电影”的意思,但是film这个词的词义相对比较广泛,它还有胶片、薄膜等思,而movie却只能用来指电影。
③ Subjects是学科、主题、主观的意思。它有个反义词是object,客观、客体,对象的意思。
如果两个词后面+to,那就不是他们俩本身的意思了,它们分别表示“服从”和“反对”。
翻译:但是当然,很多东西都有时尚,不仅仅是衣服。在假日、餐馆、电影和书籍中都有时尚。甚至在学校的课程、工作……和语言方面也有时尚。
①Fashions change as time goes.
② If you look at pictures of people or things from the past,you will see that fashions have always changed. ③An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650.④ A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
① 这句话难点在于as,以后无论在哪看到它,大家可以把这个词记作“等同于”,这句话生硬翻译就是:时尚的改变等同于时间的走。也就是时尚随着时间改变。
② Look at 是看一看、审视的意思,因为at有“发送”的意思。咱们电脑上的字母“@”就是at的组合体。多说一句,look for是寻找的意思,这两个词组经常出现,大家要记住。后面的“pictures of people or things”如果不会翻译的人会翻译成“人的照片或事情”,其实单词“or”两边是相等的,大家如果不能理解就直接把or或and在句子中画成等号,然后寻求等号两边相等。这句话就成了:“pictures of people =things”,现在等号两边不相等,我们要让它相等就成了“pictures of people =pictures of things”这句话的意思就是“人或事的照片”
③ 这句话的主要词是different,不同的意思。夹在句子中间就表示两边不同。
④ 同第三句,都是用different举例子。
全句翻译:时尚随着时间的推移而改变。如果你看过去的人或事的照片,你会发现时尚总是在改变。1750年的英国住宅与1650年的不同。1780年,一个时髦的男人看上去和1860年的孙子大不相同。
① Today fashions change very quickly. ②Some of this is natural. ③We hear about things much more quickly than in the past.④ Newspaper,radios,telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours.⑤New fashions mean that people will buy new things,so you see there is money in fashion.
① Quickly是迅速的意思。
② Natural是自然,安利有一款产品系列叫“纽崔莱”就是这个词的变形,品牌的意思是自然原料。
③ Than是“相比较”的意思,这次出现在中间就表示它两边的句子要进行比较。在这句话中,than后面是“in the past”,就是要和过去作比较。它有个易混淆的词是then,这个是然而的意思。
④ one country to another,这里省略了一个country,大家读习惯就好了。一般出现another(其他)这样的词,大家都自动要脑补一下省略掉的词。
⑤ 最后一句话点题,大家也注意到了,最后一句的mean和第一句的means相呼应。这里都是“意味着的意思。”
全句翻译:今天的时尚变化很快。有些是自然的。我们听到事情的速度比过去快得多。报纸、收音机、电话和电视在几个小时内把信息从一个国家传送到另一个国家。新时尚意味着人们会买新东西,所以你会发现时尚中有金钱。