新概念英语第二册The

第 2 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑新概念英语其次册 The Olympic Games 课程讲解 新概念英语其次册 The Olympic Games 课程讲解 Lesson 37 The Olympic Games 奥林匹克运动会 The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years time. As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool. They will also be building new roads and a special railway line. The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be called Olympic City. Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year. By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fantastic modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country. 第 3 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 参考译文 4 年以后，奥林匹克运动会将在我们国家进行。由于将有大批的人到我们国家来，所以政府预备建筑一些新的饭店、一个大型体育场和一个新的奥运会标准游泳池。他们还将修筑一些新的道路和一条铁路专线。奥运会就在首都市郊举办，整个地区将被称作“奥林匹克城”。工人们将在今年年底前把新路铺好；到明年年底，他们将把新体育场建成。这些巨大的现代化建筑是由库尔特.冈特设计的。大家都将急迫地凝视着新建筑的建成。我们都特别兴奋，期望着奥运会的.到来，由于在这个国家里还从未举办过奥运会。 Olympic adj. 奥林匹克的 hold v. 召开 government n. 政府 immense adj. 巨大的 stadium n. 露天体育场 standard n. 标准 第 4 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 capital n. 首都 fantastic adj. 巨大的 design v. 设计 As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool. a great many 很多 比较： 1. many a... 很多(后接单数动词) Many a teacher has come to the exhibition. Many a woman has great influence on her husband. He beguiled us with many a tale of adventure. 2. a lot, lots of, a number of 与 a great many / a good many 意义违反。 第 5 页精品文档---下载后可任意编辑 ◆ a handful of 一把，少量(作为量词) She scooped up a handful of snow and rolled it into a ball. Only a handful people agree with him, it is a foolis risk. We invited twenty people, but only a handful of them came. I picked up a handful of letters and began to open them.