第 一 课 The Middle Eastern Bazaar 中 东 的 集 市 一 ． Writing Style A description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene. A description is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses --- sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. 二． Rhetoric [ˈretə rik] 修辞 1.Personification: an act of personifying sth that is without life 人格拟人化 2.Hyperbole: overstate or exaggerate sth. in order to make it sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc. than it really is.夸张 3.Metaphor：a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe sb\sth else,in order to show that the two things have the same qualities to make the description more powerful.暗喻 4. onomatopoeia: the fact of words containing sounds similar to the noises they describe .拟声,拟声法 三． Words and Phrases 重点词汇 1. glare: shining intensely, uncomfortably, and too strong; in a way unpleasant to the eyes vi.发强光 The sun glared on the sea.太阳在海上发出令人目眩的 光芒 n.强光 The glare of the headlights almost blinded us. 汽车前灯耀眼的 光使我们睁不开眼。 怒视, 瞪眼 She looked at him with an angry glare.她生气地瞪着他。 shadowy: hard to see or know about clearly not distinct, dim adj.多 阴 影 的 a shadowy path through the woods 树 林 里 幽 暗 的 小 径 似 影 子 的 ;模 糊 的 She saw a shadowy figure through the blind. 她 透 过 帘 子 看 到 一 个 模 糊 的 身 影 。 2. harmoniously: in a pleasant and peaceful way 和 谐 地 ;调 和 地 the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else 与 每 个 人 尽 可 能 和 睦 相 处 的 必 要 4.harmonious： adj.和 谐 的 ,和 睦 的 ;协 调 的 ,调 和 的 a harmonious group of friends 一 群 和 睦 的 朋 友 ...
