句子·剖析·拓展

　　Rather than take the airplane all the way,they decided to fly from China to Vancouver and to take the train from west to east across Canada in September.

　　她们不想一路乘飞机，她们决定9月先从中国乘飞机到温哥华，再从西海岸乘火车横穿加拿大到达东海岸。

　　【剖析】 1）and 连接了两个动词不定式短语to fly from China to Vancouver和 to take the train from west to east across Canada in September共同作decided的宾语。

　　2）all the way一路上，从远道而来，从头至尾，作状语。

　　3）rather than"是......而不是......"，相当于instead of。

　　【拓展】 rather than常用于连接两个并列成分。一般用于以下句型：

　　①would rather do A than do B；

　　②do A rather than do B；

　　③prefer to do A rather than do B.

　　The idea that they would cross the whole continent was exciting.

　　他们将会穿过整个大陆这一想法真是令人兴奋。

　　The idea that you can cross Canada in less than five days is just wrong.

　　你能在不到五日的时间内横穿加拿大的想法是错误的。

　　【剖析】 1）这两句中the idea后面的that从句均是同位语从句，修饰名词idea，进一步说明idea的内容是什么。

　　2）cross vt.越过;穿过　如：

　　She crossed the street with the blind children.

　　她领着那些盲童穿过街道。

　　【拓展】 across prep.& adv. 横穿，穿过。上面的句子可以改为：

She walked across（=crossed） the street with the blind children.

　　It is the second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward,you will see mountains,and pass by thousands of lakes,forests and wide rivers as well as cities它是世界第二大国家，当你一路向东行时，除了城市你还会看到山脉，会经过上千个湖泊、森林、大河以及城市。

　　【剖析】 1）第一个and 连接了前后两个句子，前面一个句子是简单句，而后面一个则是含有as you go eastward 这样一个时间状语从句的复合句。

　　2）eastward也作eastwards，副词，意为"向东"。注意不能说go to eastward。

　　3）thousands of成千上万的。注意：million,billion,thousand,hundred,score（20）,dozen（12）之前有确定的数字时，不论后面有无of，词尾都不加s。如：three dozen of these eggs这些鸡蛋里的3打。

如果前面没有确定的数字而后接of时，词尾都加s。

　　4）as well as 在此句中相当于and。

　　On the coast north of Vancouver some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world still remain.

　　在温哥华北部的海岸上仍然有一些世界上最古老最美丽的森林。

　　【剖析】 1)On the coast north of Vancouver是介词短语作地点状语。

2）remain是一个不及物动词，意为"留下;剩余;残存"。如：