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Ⅰ. 课文注释与疑难解析
1. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
a. you see为定语从句,前面省略了关系代词that,当先行词为something, anything, everything, nothing等不定代词时,引导定语从句只能用that而不用which。如:
I will do everything that I can to help you.
我将尽我所能来帮助你。
b. owe ... to ... (常与to连用)归功于;由于;欠, 欠债
She owes her success to good luck.
她把成功归功于幸运。
The young writer owed his success to his teacher's encouragement.
年轻作家把自己的成功归于他老师的鼓励。
He still owes for what he bought last summer.
他去年夏天买东西欠的钱还未还呢!
2. No wonder my fellow guests had had only a few bites of each dish.
难怪和我一块的客人每盘只吃一点菜。
(It's) no wonder (that) 难怪;并不奇怪;当然。
No wonder he is not hungry; he has been eating sweets all day. 难怪他不饿,他整天在吃糖果。
Peter is always working hard. No wonder that he passed the exam successfully.
彼特学习总是很努力,他顺利通过考试并不奇怪。
3. The first six or seven dishes seemed to fill the table, with plates dangerously balanced one on top of another.
with plates dangerously balanced one on top of another 被称作介词"with复合结构"。此结构主要表状态或说明背景情况,常做伴随、方式、原因、条件等状语。具体结构如下:
1) with +名词+介词短语
He was asleep with his head on his arm.
The man came in with a book in his hand.