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BBC news 2010-04-10 加文本

2010-04-10来源:和谐英语

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1.Iran says it's developed a new type of centrifuge which it says will be six times more efficient at enriching uranium than those currently in use.

six times more efficient是表示倍数的比较

1) 主语+谓语+ X times + as + adj. + as
这个句型译为：① A…是B的X倍（或净增加X－1倍）.
例如：This pen (A) is twice as expensive as that pen (B).
这只钢笔(A)的价格是那只钢笔(B)的2倍。（即A比B贵一倍）
I have three times as many as you. 我有你三倍那么多。（我的比你的多两倍）
This box is four times as heavy as that box. 这个盒子比那个盒子重4倍。
2）主语+谓语+ X times+ the size (amount, width, breadth, level, value, velocity, length…) of…
这个句型表示净增加“1倍，是…的2倍”例如：
The earth is 49 times the size of the moon. 地球是月球大小的49倍。
3）主语+谓语+ X times + 形容词（副词）比较级+ than…
这个句型表示的数为净增加数。例如：
The grain output is one time higher this year than that of last year.
今年比去年粮食产量增加一倍。
4）还可以用by+倍数，表示增加多少倍
The production of grain has been increased by four times this year.
今年粮食产量增加了4倍。

2.The Associated Press News Agency says it obtains a letter signed by the future pope in 1985 when he was a senior Vatican official in which he resisted the dismissal of an American priest who'd sexually abused children.

这句话的主干是：The Associated Press News Agency says it obtains a letter。signed by the future pope是过去分词做后置定语，修饰a letter。in 1985 when he was a senior Vatican official是时间状语。in which he resisted the dismissal是定语从句，修饰letter。who'd sexually abused children也是定语从句，修饰American priest。

3.The Vatican hasn't commented on the contents of the letter, but the Vatican spokesman said it wasn't strange that there were documents with the future pope's signature on them.

with the future pope's signature on them是复合结构。

with+宾语+宾语补足语，构成with复合结构，宾语可以是名词或是代词，宾语补足语可以是介词短语、过去分词、现在分词、形容词、动词不定式、副词。且with后面的宾语与其后的宾语补足语有逻辑上的主谓关系。

1)With+宾语+介词短语

He was asleep with his head on his arms.

2)with+宾语+过去分词(宾语与宾补之间是被动关系)

All the afternoon he worked with the door locked.

He lay in bed with his head covered.

3)with+宾语+现在分词(宾语与宾补之间是主动关系)

With winter coming on，it's time to buy warm clothes.

4)with+宾语+todo(不定式做宾补有“将来”的含义)

I can't go out with all these dishes to wash.

5)with+宾语+形容词/副词