For example: One of my favorite writers are Charlotte Bronte. She was born in the early is nineteenth century when women had far fewer opportunities ∧ they have. than She lived in a small village in Yorkshire and she took great pleasure in walking √ on the moors |
Quotations and sayings are part of our language and our ways of life. 【D1】________
As the poet Emerson said, we use them by necessary to remind 【D2】________
ourselves to look before leap or avoid cross our bridges before we 【D3】________
come to them. We use them by habit, often realizing we are doing 【D4】________
so, and we all love to use an apt quotation to enliven conversation 【D5】________
or score a point in argument This booklet contains over a thousand 【D6】________
quotations, proverbs and saying. Together, they offer a great deal of 【D7】________
information, advice, amusement and comfort.
Emerson wrote I hate ‘quotations’so it is doubtful that he would have
been used this book-but we hope that you will. Whether you use it to 【D8】________
improve your knowledges enrich your own speech or simply for 【D9】________
idle reading in your spare time, it will put you in touch of some of 【D10】________
the cleverest minds of the past and present.
【D1】
ways→way
(由于此处表示“一种生活方式”, 而非多种, 故将ways改为单数形式。 )
【D2】
necessary→necessity
(use them by necessity, 介词by后面接名词, 表示“出于……的方式”。 )
【D3】
cross→crossing
(avoid doing sth.为固定搭配, 表示“避免做某事”。 )
【D4】
often∧realizing→not
(根据句意, “我们出于习惯做某事时, 意识不到自己在干什么”。 often后加not才能使句子符合逻辑。 )
【D5】
√
【D6】
in∧argument→an
(argument前加不定冠词, 表示“在某个论据中”, 不具体指某一个或一类。 )
【D7】
saying→sayings
(由于句子中并列的成分quotations和proverbs均为复数形式, 所以saying也要改为复数形式。 )
【D8】
去掉been
(would have been为被动形式, 主语为人, 句子意为“他本可能使用书”, 故删除been。 )
【D9】
knowledges→knowledge
(knowledge知识, 为不可数名词。 )
【D10】
of→with
(将第一个of改为with。 in touch with为固定搭配, 表示“同……有联系, 有接触”。 )