新概念英语第三册课文和笔记第54课:Instinct or cleverness?

【课文讲解】
背熟：We have been brought up to fear insects.
Eg: We have been brought up to eat certain food.
We have learnt to do ...
We have learnt to fear insects.
Girls have been brought up to fear mice.

do more harm than good
Eg: The exercese will do you good.
Smoking will do you harm.
wage war against / wage war on them
Eg: Two dogs benefited from the accident and they devoured the remains of the cake.
Her eyes devour the beautiful dress.

fly uninvited into our rooms / without being invited 不请自来
做定语时，light 只能用lighted 形式。

背熟：We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless one like moths.
Eg: I did so as / because I believe that you can do it well.
I did so in the belief that...
in the thought that / in the hope that
in / under
Eg: Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is much more veautiful.
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L54-03 begin 18’57”
Eg: We live under the illusion that city life is wonderful.

in dread: in fear
in dread of
dread doing / dread to do
ones: insects
在使用not only..., but (also ) ... (as well) 句型时，要突出介词短语或动词短语中的介词，则此介词要重复出现。
Eg: I live in dread not only of dogs, but of cats.

be afraid of
Eg: I am afraid not only of dogs, but of cats.

both ... and ...
Eg: We live in dread of both dogs and cats.
I am interested not only in English, but in French.
dispel : erase ／get rid of / remove消除

Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being
主语 谓语
filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.
时间状语从句
disgusting
in a highly organized society
Eg: We live in a highly organized society.
用does nothing to do造句
Eg: Doing so does nothing to prevent me from hating you.
prevent sb. from doing sth.
Eg: Nothing will prevent me from saying so.
Whatever you say does nothing to prevent me from attaining / accomplish my goal.
accomplish goal / attain goal
accomplish aim / attain aim
horde / colony
crawl / creep / climb

背熟：No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung.
No matter how: however much
dread / fear / horror / terror
we become illogical when we have a horror of being stung.

It is impossible for us to do sth.
It is impossible for us to erase the fears.
It is easy for everyone to read. / it is easy to read.

be fascinated with
strangely: uncanny

go about their Business: as they do what they should do
as they get down to their Business
Let us get down to our Business.
You should go about your Business. 你该干你应该干的事。

背熟：Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pouncing on a fly

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Lesson54A end 56:23

Lesson54B begin 35:17
L54-04 begin 20’16”

stand in awe: fear but respect
pounce on: jump at / charge at
stand in awe of
Eg: Generally speaking, employees stand in awe of their employer.
In primary school, puples stand in awe of their teacher.

a colony of ants