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
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
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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
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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
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8) 对天空中出现的这些奇异现象我们应当如何看待呢
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
4 Metonymy 借代 1
the relationship between the two su