英語基本功過關閱讀

Exercise

英語基本功過關閱讀

It is important that they be looking at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker reestablishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation.

And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.

One can only guess that if he heard many of them he was only strengthened in his resolve not to allow himself and his bride to be made a spectacle not their live selves or their bodies

要點分析和參考譯文

要點:基本句型 It is important that ,that 主語從句的謂語爲虛擬語氣(be)。 Eitheror 連接語法上相同的兩部分:will pause和 will terminate。

參考譯文:重要的是當說話者的目光重新停留在聽衆臉上的.一瞬間,聽衆一定得看着他(她),如果沒看,說話者就會認爲聽衆不感興趣,那麼就會停下來等聽衆的目光重新回到他(她)的臉上或者終止談話。

要點:rather than意爲而不。其前後在語法上爲相同的成分。此處爲兩個結構相同的介詞短語on the specific skills和on the basic background skills。