1Theysaythat

“apictureisworthathousandwords”,butthebriefestlookatbooksandthemoviesbased

on

them

wouldhaveanyonequestioningthiscommonsaying.Alltoooften,greatwordsendup

beingturnedinto

cinematic“turkeys”．變成v.質疑通常endupdoingsth.以做某事而告終beworthsth/doingsth值/值得做根據；基于1.Theysaythat“apictureisworth

athousandwords”,butthebriefest

lookatbooksandthemoviesbasedon

themwouldhaveanyonequestioning

thiscommonsaying.

beworthsth①Theoldstampisworthabout5,000yuan.②Anhourinthemorningisworth

twohoursintheevening.

有價值

人們常說“一圖勝千詞”，但是簡單對照一下書籍和由之改編的電影，就會讓人開始質疑這種說法。②be(well)worthdoing...1Goodhabitsarewellworthstickingtobecausetheycanbenefitusall.2Itisworthvisitingtheartmuseum.worthless無價值的；無用的worthwhile值得花時間/精力的Itisworthwhiledoing/todosthworthy值得的

1Thephenomenonisworthyofbeingstudied.2Thisproblemisworthytobeconsidered.bebasedon

①Whathesaidisbasedonfact.②Thestoryisbasedonreallife.beingfoundedon

根據，以……為基礎；建立在……基礎上have

sb

doing...

①Hehaduslaughingduringthelunchtime.②Thetwocheatshadthelightsburningallnightlong.havesbdosth

讓某人做……havesthdone

讓別人(為自己)做……/遭遇....tomakesbtodosthconsistently讓某人一直做……，(強調動作的連續性)havesthdone1Shehadherhaircut.

2Hehadhiscarrepaired.3Hehadhislegbroken.endup(doing)...①Ifyouwanttoremembereverything，youwillenduprememberingnothing.②Herbirthdaypartystartedwithawonderfulsongandendedupwithagroupdance.finallybeordosth以(做)……結束；最終結果……

1.這次旅行花費很大，但是花的每一分錢都不冤枉。Thetripwasexpensivebutitwaswortheverypenny.2.我們所做的一切都是在科學的基礎上完成的。Alloftheworkwedoisbasedonscience.翻譯句子。

2Goodmoviesneedgoodstories.

Ifso,whyhasoneoftheearliestandgreatestworksinWesternstorytelling,Homer’sTheOdyssey,neverhadanequallygreatmoviebasedonit?

Moviesneedstrongcharacters.SowhyhavethemoviesbasedonTheGreatGatsbyneverbeenpraisedas“great”

?Moviesofcourseneedimpressive

images,sowhyhasAliceinWonderlandonlyresultedin（導致）moviesbest

described

as“interesting”?

同樣地resultinMoviesofcourseneedimpressiveimages,sowhyhasAliceinWonderlandonlyresultedinmoviesbestdescribedas“interesting”?tomakesthhappen

導致，造成，結果是

1Thecaraccidentresultedinthedeathoftwopassengers.電影當然需要令人印象深刻的畫面，那為什么由《愛麗絲仙境》改編的電影最多也只能被稱為“有點意思”呢？resultfrom:

2Thedeathoftwopassengersresultedfromthecaraccident.對比asaresult;asaresultof;resultfrom/resultin

3Oneofthekeyreasonsbehindthisisthat

while

a

book

usually

takes

a

few

days

to

read,a

movie

typically

lasts

under

two

hours.

Thismeansthatgreatbookscanloseplotdetailsandcharacterswhentheymovetothebigscreen.

通常v.持續表從賓從時間狀從This

is

something

that

even

the

highly

successful

Harry

Potter

movies

can’t

escape

from,（with

fans

of

the

books

disappointed

）（not

to

see

some

of

their

favourite

characters）（

in

the

movie

versions.）從……逃離,避免定從

4Moviesalsodisappointuswhenthingsdon’tlooktheway

(we

imagined

them

in

the

books）.

Take,for

example,theepic

movie

Troy,which

is

in

part

based

on

Homer’s

The

Iliad

and

was

met

with

mixed

reviews

from

the

audience.

部分地遇到；面對非限制性定從

Themostquestionable

issue

wastheactress(chosentoplaythepartofHelen).Manypeoplethoughtshedidn’tliveupto

Helen’stitleof“themostbeautifulwomanintheworld”,influencingopinionsofthemovietosomeextent.可疑的；有問題的非謂語表被動符合(標準)在某種程度上Manypeoplethoughtshedidn'tliveuptoHelen'stitleof“themostbeautifulwomanintheworld”,influencingopinionsofthemovietosomeextent.

liveupto①Saleshavenotliveduptoexpectationsthisyear.②IhopeIcanliveuptotheexpectationsofmyparents.fulfiltherequirementsorexpectationsof

符合，達到(標準)，不負(盛名)許多人認為她配不上海倫“世界上最美的女人”這一稱號，這在一定程度上影響到了人們對這部電影的評價。tosomeextent①Iagreewithwhatyousaytosomeextent.②Tosomeextentsheshouldberesponsiblefortheaccident.③Whatcolourdoyouliketosomeextentreflectswhatkindofpersonyouare.④Toacertaindegree,itisamatteroflogic

usedtoshowhowfarsthistrueorhowgreataneffectithas

在某種程度上

5ThereareathousandHamletsinathousandpeople’seyes.Furthermore,booksandmoviesaretwodifferentformsofmediaandthereforehavedifferentrules.Withthisinmind,perhapsweshouldjudgeamovieinitsownright,andnotagainstitsoriginal

source.

此外；而且with...inmind考慮到……評判憑借自身，靠自己來源5.Withthisinmind,perhapsweshouldjudgeamovieinitsownright,andnotagainstitsoriginalsource.

with...inmind①Withthatinmind,you'renotlikelytorunoutofideas.②Withthisinmind,considerhowyoumightsolveadifferentproblem.whilethinkingaboutsborsth記住/清楚/知道……知道了這一點，也許我們應該從電影本身來評價它，而不是將它與原始版本進行對比。inone'sownright①Heisarichmaninhisownright.②Herfather'sawell-knownauthor,butshe'sanexcellentwriterinherownright.

byreasonofone'sownabilityorownershipetc憑借自身，靠自己Interestingly,audienceshaveinrecentyearsturnedtotelevisionseriessuchasSherlockorMadMen,which

can

have

many

characters

and

gradual

plot

development.

Perhaps,oneday,readersofF.ScottFitzgerald’smostadmiredworkwillfind

themselves

glued

totheirscreensbyepisodes

ofTheGreatGatsby.轉向漸進的被贊美的粘住，吸引begluedtodoingsth全神貫注地做某事Interestingly,audienceshaveinrecentyearsturnedtotelevisionseriessuchasSherlockorMadMen,whichcanhavemanycharactersandgradualplotdevelopment.

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