托福句子结构语法结构.docx

1、托福句子结构语法结构1 Those second-hand pianos are selling like hot cakes, if you want one, youd better buy one now before theyre all gone.sell like hot cakes=sell very well or very quickly2 Whenever I have to make a speech I get butterflies in my stomach.get butterflies in ones stomach=get nervous3 He would

2、do anything for his daughter. She was the apple of his eye.be the apple of ones eye=be very precious to sb.4 Lend me $30,please,Tom, Im broke at the moment.be broke=doesnt have any money5 The accident was caused by a taxi driver jumping the green light.jump the green light=doesnt wait for the traffi

3、c lights to change to green6 You didnt think I was serious, did you, Joe! It was a joke! I was pulling your leg, thats all.pull ones leg=tease someone,逗某人玩7 Because the owner wanted a quick sale, the painting went for a song-only$1000.If something goes for a song ,it is sold very cheaply8 He caught

4、the last train by the skin of his teeth.By the skin of ones teeth =the person only just caught the last train; heal most missed it.9 There was a shortage of food; so you had to pay through the nose for what you could find.To pay through the nose for something is to pay far more for something than it

5、 is really worth10 If he finds out what you did with the companys money, hell hit the roof.Hit the roof=get very angry11 The sky got very dark and soon the rain began to bucket down.Bucket down = rain very heavily12 They all chip in for the benefit of Simpsons widow and little child.chip in=contribu

6、te money 捐献13 He usually buys his clothes off the peg. Its cheaper than going to a dressmaker.Off the peg clothes =成衣14 Now stop beating about the bush and tell me what happened!beat about the bush=avoid saying directly what you mean15 I really must go and lie down for a while ;Ive got a splitting h

7、eadache.splitting headache=painful headache1. Arid regions in the southwestern United States have become increasingly inviting playgrounds for the growing number of recreation seekers who own vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes and indulge in hill-climbing contests or in caving new t

8、rails in the desert.美国西部的不毛之地正成为玩耍的地方，对越来越多拥有摩托车或越野单车类车辆的，喜欢放纵于爬坡比赛或开辟新的沙漠通道的寻欢作乐者具有不断增长的吸引力。2. Stone does delay, and so tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the man who made them have disappeared without trace.石头不会腐烂， 所以以前的(石器)工具能保存下来， 虽然它们的制造者已经消失的无影无踪。3. Insects would make it im

9、possible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住;如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护，昆虫就会吞嚼掉我们所有的庄稼并杀死我们饲养的禽兽。4. It is true that during their explorations they often faced diffi

10、culties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.确实，他们在探险中遇到了极具威胁性的困难和危险，而他们的装备会让一个现代登山者想一想都会浑身颤栗。不过他们并不是刻意去追求刺激的。5. There is only one difference between an ol

11、d man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.老人和年轻人之间只有一个区别：年轻人的前面有辉煌的未来，老年人灿烂的未来却已在它们身后。这也许就是困难之所在。6. I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commi

12、tment to mean ambitions or love comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.我们为年强人振奋。他们带有 fire 的气息，他们不会为狭隘的野心和贪婪享受而孜孜以求。他们不是焦虑的向上爬的人，他们不会对物质性的东西难舍难分。7. I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill bet ween the nations, and t

13、hat if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.每次我听说体育运动能够在国家间建立起友好感情， 说世界各地的普通人只要能在足球场或板球场上相遇就会没有兴趣在战场上相遇的话，我都倍感诧异。8. It is impossible to say simply for the fun and exercise: as soon as the questio

14、n of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are around.没有可能仅仅为了娱乐或锻炼而运动：一旦有了问题，一旦你觉得你输了你和你所属团体会有失体面时，你最野蛮的好斗本能就会被激发出来。9. It has been found that certain bats emit squeaks and by receiving the echoes, they c

15、an locate and steer clear of obstacles-or locate flying insects on which they feed. This echo-location in bats is often compared with radar, the principle of which is similar.人们已经发现， 某些蝙蝠发出尖叫声并靠接受回响来锁定和避免障碍物或者找到它们赖以为生的昆虫。蝙蝠这种回响定位法常拿来和原理与之很相近似的雷达相比。10. As the time and cost of making a clip drop to a

16、few days and a few hundred dollars, engineers may soon be free to let their imaginations soar without being penalized by expensive failure.随着芯片制造时间和费用降低到了几天和几百美元， 工程师们可能很快可以任他们的想象驰骋而不会被昂贵的失败所惩罚l 句子开头1. 用分词开头a) Overcome by the grief, Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland.b) Delighted

17、 with anything that distracted Winston from the dark thoughts that overwhelmed him, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints and materials she could find.2. 用不定式短语开头a) To help students understand death as the natural end of a life cycle, the school introduces a noncredit course death.b) To meet

18、our energy needs, compete with foreign industry, and maintain our standard of living, we need staggered amounts of new capital.3. 用介词开头用apart from, besides, despite, before, in , for, by, without, with, thanks to等介词短语开头，是使句子生动变化的一种手段。a) Despite their menacing appearance, most reptiles arent really v

19、icious if you leave them alone.b) With the advent of the internet, our world has shrunk more in a single generation than in the preceding 5000 years.c) Within the confines of the womens liberationist ideology, therefore, the abolition of this overriding inequality of women becomes the primary goal.d

20、) From the moment we stepped into the Peoples Republic of China, care and kindness surrounded us on every side.e) Under the placid surface of life there always was dissatisfied restlessness ever since the end of the Allied occupation regime.4. 用抽象名词开头a) The harshness and hostility of our environment

21、, and the hidden, indefinable threat that is always afloat in the air, oblige us to close ourselves in.b) That tolerance for change also represents deeply rooted ideas of freedom.c) Hope persisted in Marshall because the only alternative was a military solution.d) Public awareness of the environment

22、 has created a surge of interest in home gardening and urban horticulture and has led to the increased use of landscaping to modify the functional and aesthetic aspects of the surroundings.5. 用副词或形容词开头 a) Back in the 1960s, scholars advised the American public that automation was making work unneces

23、sary, so the big problem of the future would be how to cope with an overabundance of the free time. b) Basically, such attitude amount to recognition that leisure is an important area of life and a belief that leisure can and should be put to good use. c) Shrewd and powerful, he had enormous influen

24、ce upon the kings of Trance. d) Confident of a quick victory, Hitler expected the campaign to last no longer than three months.6. 用it is + V-ed短语开头 a) It has often been remarked that the saddest thing about youth is that it is wasted on the young. b) It is widely accepted that some children were jus

25、t not equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education. c) It was generally assumed, however, that native speaker competence in the Standard English was acquired through formal learning.7. 用there is 结构开头 a) In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War II. b) There

26、is the appreciation of the salient historical truth that the aging of advanced societies has been a sudden change. c) There is often resistance to the idea that it is because the birthrate fell earlier in Western and Northwestern Europe than elsewhere, that we have grown so old.l 句子结构在雅思大作文部分要取得7分以上

27、的高分，必须要句型多样，而大多生考生都不知道如何变换举行，以下就介绍几种常用的方法。1. 定语从句用定语从句改写下列句子（不改变意义）1. The Chinese character hao combines the symbol for “woman” with the symbol for “boy”. The Chinese character means “good”.2. The tests do not measure genuine intellectual ability. Colleges use the tests to careen applicants for admi

28、ssion.3. The following are typical of the nature of their crime. The pattern of then can be traced to any section to the country.2. 分词短语运用分词短语不仅改变了原有的句型，而且能使句子间的语义关系更加清楚。请比较下面的句子：1. An IQ score is stamped on a permanent school record. It may influence teacher expectations. It may also determine a ch

29、ilds future.2. Unchecked population growth is not merely an annoying problem. It is not merely exaggerated by pessimists who always worry about the future. It is, on the contrary, the most serious problem humanity faces today.3. A university professor in Arizona was assigned to tutor underachieving

30、college athletes. He recalled a runner who exercised daily.4. In a lecture on economics, curious students would ask how the Chinese economy could be both socialist and market-driven. In this way they interest themselves not only in what, but also in whys.3. 双重否定句英语中常常用两个否定词来表达一个肯定的意思。i. You cant len

31、d your marked book to your friends because nobody else can read them without being distracted by your notes.ii. You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which Im not reading something.iii. Probably there is not one here who has not in the course of the day had occasion to set in motion

32、 a complex train of reasoning.iv. Regardless of where the books came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them.4. 比较级句比较英汉句子，英语通过比较级来表达意思的句子远比汉语多得多。i. Few problems in America cause so much concern and widespread public interest as does the problem of youthful misbehavior and delinquency.ii. Nowhere, however, is communications more important, or less studied than in the interaction between phy