[名师点津] 常见的动词后接宾语从句用虚拟语气的动词:一坚持(insist);二命令(order, command);四建议(suggest, advise, propose, recommend);四要求(require, request, demand, desire)等。
3.(教材P22)Their belief is that this is the only way for many of these nations to escape their painful pasts.
他们坚信,这是使许多非洲国家摆脱痛苦过去的唯一出路。
belief n.信仰,信任,信心
It's one's belief that ...
(=One's belief is that ...) 相信
hold/have a belief that ... 相信......
have/lose belief in ... 对......有信心/失去信心
beyond belief 难以置信
①If you are selling, you have to have belief in the product.
如果你在销售东西,就必须对所销售的产品有信心。
②It's beyond belief that parents have to spend nearly one million yuan bringing up a child in China nowadays.
现如今,在中国抚养一个孩子花费父母将近一百万,这太让人难以置信了。
③It_is_my_belief_that we will find a cure for cancer in the next ten years.
我相信在未来的十年里我们会找到治愈癌症的方法。
④I hold the firm belief that only when everybody makes an effort can our society be warmer and more harmonious.
我坚信只有我们每个人都作出努力,我们的社会才会变得更温馨和谐。
4.(教材P23)At 12:45 UK time today, the name of the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games was being announced by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) in Singapore.
今天英国时间12:45,国际奥林匹克委员会在新加坡宣布了2012年奥林匹克运动会主办城市的名字。
announce vt.宣布,宣告
(1)announce sth. to sb. 向某人宣布某事
announce (to sb.) that ... (向某人)宣布/发表......
It's announced that ... 据宣布......