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# 90 · 晚餐吃什么？

### 第1段

Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive. So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work. Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters. The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length. Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs. As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water. Who eats who?

中文理解：炸鱼薯条一直是英国人喜爱的食物，可海洋遭到过度捕捞，鱼也越来越贵。 因此，听说北海石油钻井平台附近的巨鱼把潜水员吓坏了，真让人意外。 钻井平台需要经常维修。潜水员常在水下一百英尺深的黑暗中工作，巨鱼撞上他们时，能把他们吓得魂飞魄散。如今，他们专门请人做了防护笼，挡住这些“大怪物”。 它们不是鲨鱼，也不是虎鲸，而是人们爱吃的鳕鱼、鳐鱼之类，只是长得异乎寻常地大，有时竟有十二英尺长。 三个因素造成了这种情况：海底热输油管周围的暖水；平台工作人员抛下的大量食物；以及平台附近完全没有渔船。 于是，鱼就在舒适的暖水里吃了又吃，越长越大。到头来，究竟是谁吃谁呢？

* **more and more expensive**：越来越贵；说明持续变化，不是一次性的两者比较。

* **comes as a surprise**：出乎意料；surprise前有a，to引出感到意外的人。

* **out of their wits**：吓得魂不附体；要连同frightened理解，强调极度惊恐，不是失去智力。

* **bumping into**：撞上；本课是身体相撞；其他语境也可指偶遇某人。

* **protect them from**：保护他们免受……；from引出危害来源，不能只记protect单词。

* **As a result**：因此；结果；接前文已经说明的原因，再给出结果；两者都不直接引导原因从句。

#### 标题与阅读提示

0. 标题

What's for supper? 特殊疑问句，介词短语作表语.

#### Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive.

expensive.

并列复合句，but 连接前后两个句子，前句为主系表结构，后句的主句也是主系表结构，不过有一个as 引导的原因状语从句，为主谓结构. 这里的fish and chips 就是西餐的鱼柳和薯条. overfished 在这里是动词的被动语态.

#### So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs.

复合句，it 是形式主语，后面动词不定式短语为真正的主语，这个主语中有一个 that 引导的宾语从句，属于主语内部的进一步分析.

#### Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.

并列复合句，本句结构较为复杂，and 连接前后两句，前句为主谓结构；and 后句是一个复合句，主干是divers have been…，只不过中间有一个who 引导的非限制性定语从句修饰divers，为主谓结构，最后面还有一个as 引导的时间状语从句，主谓结构.

#### Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.

简单句，主谓宾 + 宾补的结构，have sth. done，不过这里的时态是现在完成时，故而第一个have 是起语法作用的，第二个have 是有实际意义的动词，所以转为过去分词had. 本课的关键句型就是have 的各种时态，可以按照教材上的关键句型复习第 18课，第42课和第66课.

#### The fish are not sharks or killer whales, but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.

并列复合句，这里but 连接前后两个句子，前句为主系表结构，而but 后面所连接的句子省略了主系成分，只简写了表语，而该表语被一个which 所引导的定语从句修饰，该定语从句为主谓结构.

#### Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.

简单句，主句是主谓宾 + 宾补结构，后面是一连串的同位语，相当于是补充factors 的具体内容.

本句一定要背下来，并且学会在作文中使用. 这种表达非常地道.

#### As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.

并列句，此处补充了and 后句所省略的主语，这样可以理解该句三个and 的层次 情况，第一个and 和第三个and 起谓语之中的连接作用；第二个and 才是连接两个句子的作用.

#### Who eats who?

简单句，主谓宾结构，这里的疑问句是对于到底是鱼儿吃钻井平台的人们投喂的饲料呢，还是鱼儿本身就是要被人类吃的，到底是谁吃谁.

#### 例: I think two additional factors have caused Americans \<to feel crappy about their

economy>. 我认为还有两点因素导致了美国人认为其经济糟糕. \[crappy adj. of very bad quality 劣质的；蹩脚的；糟糕的，其比较级为crappier，最高级为crappiest]

## 学完这一课

先沿这条线复述《晚餐吃什么？》：鱼越来越贵 → 海上却有鱼大得吓人 → 潜水员需要防护笼 → 原来也是常吃的鱼 → 三个条件让鱼长大 → 吃得多，也长得大。再借一个结构讲自己的事：把本课一个被动句改成有明确执行者的主动句，比较关注点有什么变化。

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