下面這種結(jié)構(gòu)中，動名詞表示后面名詞的屬性或狀態(tài)等。

1. non-insulting manners. 非侮辱性的禮儀。

2. talking pace and time. 談話的速度和時(shí)間。

3. a waiting list. 等候名單。

4. Some of them are put on waiting list. 有些人需要等待。

5. cleaning things. 打掃用的工具。

6. his well-known consulting-rooms. 他的出了名的診室。

7. In the examining room, Mam closed her eyes. 在檢查室，媽媽閉上了眼睛。

8. Could I ask you to stay a little later if they haven't called by closing time?

如果他們到下班的時(shí)候還沒來電話，能不能請你稍微晚點(diǎn)兒下班？

9. in her washing-day service. 在她洗衣服的那天。

10. the burying-ground. 墳場；墓地。

11. opening statement. 開場白；開庭陳述。

12. trifling taste. 庸俗的口味。

13. working-folks. 鄉(xiāng)下人；工薪階層。

14. eating disorders. 飲食失調(diào)；進(jìn)食障礙。

15. a derelict building-lot. 一個(gè)廢棄的建筑物。

16. The original difficulty of all reading, the problem of making out the meaning, is

our obvious starting-point.

顯而易見，所有閱讀的根本問題，也就是弄清楚意思是我們的出發(fā)點(diǎn)。

17. said in chuckling delight. 說話時(shí)很開心伴隨著呵呵笑聲。

18. It is the literal truth that the image of Julian was not absent from my mind for a

single second during the waking hours of those terrible days.

不夸張地說，在那段可怕的日子里，除了睡眠時(shí)間以外朱利安的形象無時(shí)無刻不在

我腦海中。

19. Other teachers, like me, prefer a walking tour of the classroom to point out the

specific locations of objects and items.

其他老師像我一樣，在教室里喜歡走過去指出事物或物體的具體位置。

20. the working class. 工人階級。

21. his working hours. 他的工作時(shí)間。

22. a working suit. 工作服。

23. working age people. 適齡勞動人口。

24. The bird, however hard the frost may be, flies briskly to his customary roosting-

place, and, with beak tucked into his wing, falls asleep.

不論霜天多么寒冷，鳥兒總是輕快地飛回它習(xí)慣的巢穴，把嘴往翅膀里一藏，就睡著了。

25. He seemed to understand that the honor was in having a whole new life-form

named after you, not necessarily what its?eating preferences?are.

他似乎理解，能夠以自己的名字——而不一定是以他們愛吃的東西——來命名一類

全新的物種是一種榮幸。

26. So how does an ordinary cotton bandage accomplish such healing magic?

那么一種普通的棉制繃帶是怎樣完成這種愈合奇術(shù)的呢？

27. speeding ticket. 超速罰單。

28. offending cars. 違章車輛。

29. experience of living and working (動名詞可以放在后面) 生活和工作經(jīng)驗(yàn)。

30. The centre's new $9.2-million operating room.

這個(gè)中心的新建手術(shù)室花費(fèi) 920 萬美元。

詞 匯 積 累

1.?explosion?n 爆炸；爆發(fā)；激增

a. a huge explosion of prostitution. 妓女人數(shù)急劇上升。

b. knowledge explosion. 知識爆炸。

2.?exponent?n 倡導(dǎo)者，鼓吹者，代表者，擁護(hù)者

a leading exponent. 領(lǐng)軍人物。

3.?exporter?n 出口商；輸出國。

exporter of people. 人口輸出國。

4.?expression?n 表現(xiàn)，表達(dá)；表情，臉色

a. an expression of awe. 敬畏的表情。

b. The face is full of expression. 表情豐富。

c. It is an expression of intense economic activity. 表現(xiàn)出密集的經(jīng)濟(jì)活動。

d. Look at each other’s expression. 關(guān)注彼此表情。

e. There was both truth and error in the expression. 表述中真理與錯(cuò)誤并存。

f. I had seen the same expression many times before on the faces of the young-old

left stranded by war.

這樣的表情我在那些被戰(zhàn)爭折騰老的年輕人臉上見過許多次。

g. What's going on in Montgomery is an expression of what she always wanted from

the branches.

在蒙哥馬利發(fā)生的事正是她一直以來想在分支看到的。

h. artistic expression. 藝術(shù)表現(xiàn)。

5.?extrovert?n 外向；外傾者；性格外向者。

a. an extrovert. 一個(gè)外向的人。

b. just act extrovert. 只是表現(xiàn)外向。