新概念英語第三冊(美音版)Instinct or cleverness

背熟：We have been brought up to fear insects.
Eg: We have been brought up to eat certain food.
We have learnt to do ...
We have learnt to fear insects.
Girls have been brought up to fear mice.

do more harm than good
Eg: The exercese will do you good.
Smoking will do you harm.
wage war against / wage war on them
Eg: Two dogs benefited from the accident and they devoured the remains of the cake.
Her eyes devour the beautiful dress.

fly uninvited into our rooms / without being invited 不請自來
做定語時，light 只能用lighted 形式。
背熟：We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths.
Eg: I did so as / because I believe that you can do it well.
I did so in the belief that...
in the thought that / in the hope that
in / under
Eg: Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is much more veautiful.
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Eg: We live under the illusion that city life is wonderful.

in dread: in fear
in dread of
dread doing / dread to do
ones: insects
在使用not only..., but (also ) ... (as well) 句型時，要突出介詞短語或動詞短語中的介詞，則此介詞要重復(fù)出現(xiàn)。
Eg: I live in dread not only of dogs, but of cats.

be afraid of
Eg: I am afraid not only of dogs, but of cats.

both ... and ...
Eg: We live in dread of both dogs and cats.
I am interested not only in English, but in French.
dispel : erase ／get rid of / remove消除

Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being
主語 謂語
filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
時間狀語從句
disgusting
in a highly organized society
Eg: We live in a highly organized society.
用does nothing to do造句
Eg: Doing so does nothing to prevent me from hating you.
prevent sb. from doing sth.
Eg: Nothing will prevent me from saying so.
Whatever you say does nothing to prevent me from attaining / accomplish my goal.
accomplish goal / attain goal
accomplish aim / attain aim
horde / colony
crawl / creep / climb

背熟：No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung.
No matter how: however much
dread / fear / horror / terror
we become illogical when we have a horror of being stung.

It is impossible for us to do sth.
It is impossible for us to erase the fears.
It is easy for everyone to read. / it is easy to read.

be fascinated with
strangely: uncanny

go about their Business: as they do what they should do
as they get down to their Business
Let us get down to our Business.
You should go about your Business. 你該干你應(yīng)該干的事。
背熟：Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly

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stand in awe: fear but respect
pounce on: jump at / charge at
stand in awe of
Eg: Generally speaking, employees stand in awe of their employer.
In primary school, puples stand in awe of their teacher.

a colony of ants
Paragraph 2:
prize: dear
如果要突出原因，則要重復(fù)because
wither
horde / colony / column / cluster
were to be found / were found

see / find / congratulate (祝賀) 常和be to 搭配，用于被動語態(tài)。
Eg: The boy was found behind the door.
The boy was to be found behind the door.
He was congratulated by his friends.
He was to be congratulated by his friends.
We can’t find him anywhere. / We can find him nowhere.
He is nowhere to be found / seen.

which obtained: to obtain
embark on: set out to do / set about doing
Eg: I immediately set out to do an experiment.

本課的要點內(nèi)容：even though if failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-four hours.
kept me fascinated : kept me occupied
bind / bound

背熟：I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids.
making it impossible for sb. to do
Eg: I work hard making it possible to pass the examination.
I prepared dinner carefully, making it possible to please my guests.
They didn’t dare to cross it. / They dared not cross it.

need
Eg: You needn’t come here on Sunday. 助動詞
You don’t need to come here on Sunday.　實義動詞

in bewilderment: were lost
swarming around
without being albe to do anything about it
unable to do anything about it

背熟：I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair.
hoping to do: in the hope that

背熟：I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity.
I took a beating completely.

be quick to find answer to / a solution to
Eg: Daniel Mendoza was quick to learn.
Ants are quick to find answer to their problem.
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【Vocabulary】P246
Explain the meanings of the ofllowing words as they are used in the passage: contaminate (l.3); devour (l.4); provocation (l.4); dispelling (l.8); revulsion (l.9); pouncing (l.15)
contaminate: make dirty, make impure
contaminate / taint
contaminate / defile
pollute / foul up / poison
devour: eat hungrily
provocation: being make angry
provoke: make angry
dispelling: erasing
dispel: erase
Nothing can dispel our fear.
industrious: hard working
revolsion: dislike
pouncing：jumping at suddenly
pounce on: 猛撲向
Eg: The customs officer pounced on my tiny bottle.(L11)