Unit 12 Ships in the Desert 1.Figures of speech 1.1 Personification 拟人 1.Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand. (Para. 1) 原先那种湛蓝色海涛轻拍船舷的景象已不复存在，取而代之的是茫茫的一片干燥灼热的沙漠 1.1 Hyperbole 夸张 1. "Like the population explosion..." (Para. 20) 像人口增长的情形一样 1.3 Metaphor 隐喻 1. "...the sky itself offers another ghostly image that signals the loss of ecological balance ... "(Para. 7) 在北方高纬度地区，夜晚的天空有时也会呈现出另一种预示地球上日趋严重的生态失衡的阴森景象 2. "...What should we feel toward these ghosts ..." (Para. 8) 对天空中出现的这些奇异现象我们应当如何看待呢? 3....Perhaps we should feel awe for our own power: just as men "ear tusks from elephants’ heads in such quantity as to threaten the beast with extinction(para.8) 1.4 Metonymy 借代 1. the relationship between the two superpowers (Para. 23) 1.6 Illustration 例证 1.7 Definition 下定义 1.8 Antithesis 对比 1.9 Repetition 重复 2 Language points 2.1 At the very bottom of the earth, high in the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, with the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky, I stood in the unbelievable coldness and talked with a scientist in the late tall of 1988 about the tunnel he was digging through time. 一九八八年深秋时节，我来到地球的最南端。高耸的南极山脉中太阳在午夜穿过天空中的一个孔洞照射着地面，我站在令人难以置信的寒冷中，与一位科学家进行着一场谈话，内容是他正在挖掘的时间隧道 2.2 Now, I wanted to see the pole it-self, and some eight hours after we met the submarine, we were crashing through that ice, surfacing, and then I was standing in an eerily beautiful snowcape, windswept and sparkling white, with the horizon defined by little humm...
