英语(外研社版)必修五 Module1 词汇及相关短语

必修5 Module 1 British and American

English

New words:

1. have … in common with sb / sth

与…..有共同之处

We have really everything in common with American nowadays,

except of course ,language. (P1)

have something / a lot / nothing / not much / little in

common with 与……有一些/ 很多/ 没有/ 没多少/ 几乎没有共同之处

in common 共有的、共同的

in common with 与……一样

1)To my surprise, I found I had a lot in common with this stranger.

2）In common with other earthquakes, the earthquake in Japan

caused great damage.

3）他们是双胞胎，但毫无共同之处。

They are twins, but they have nothing in common.

4）英语是一种不同于汉语的语言，但它们有一些共同之处。

English is a different language from Chinese, but they have

something in common

5）Generally speaking, the music of one country has quite a lot ___

her culture.

A. in common B. in common with C. with common in D. in common of

2. make a difference 有影响，起作用；使不相同

It doesn’t make much of a difference whether a teacher speaks

British or American English. (P1)

make some / much difference to … 对……有些/ 有很大关系

make all the difference to 对……关系重大；使大不相同

make no difference to 与……没有关系

（在make引导的短语中，difference通常作为不可数名词看待。这是一种特殊情况。参看《牛津高阶》给的例句：

make a, no, some, etc difference (to sb/sth)

(a) have an, no, some, etc effect (on sb/sth) （对某人[某事物]）有﹑ 没有﹑ 有些...作用或影响: The rain didn't make much difference (to the game). 这场雨（对比赛）没多大影响. * The sea air has

made a difference to (ie improved) her health. 海上的空气改善了她的健康状况. * A hot bath makes all the difference (ie makes you

feel better) in the morning. 上午洗个热水澡能让人精神振奋.

(b) be important, unimportant, etc (to sb/sth); matter （对某人[某事物]）重要﹑ 不重要等; 要紧﹑ 不要紧等: It makes no difference (to me) what you say: I'm not going. 不管你怎麽说（对我来说）都

无所谓, 反正我不去. * It won't make much difference whether you go today or tomorrow. 你今天去也好, 明天去也好, 关系不大. *

Does that make any difference? ie Is it important, need we consider it? 那要紧吗? * Yes, it makes all the difference, ie is very important. 是的, 非常重要.

当用作可数的名词时，differences的意思是说不同种的差异。

当用much difference的时候，说的是同一种的差异，而在程度上不同。 ）

1) It’s what you do today that will make a difference in your life

tomorrow.

是你今天的所作所为使你的明天与众不同。

2)我们所能做的事情会对我们的社会产生很大的影响。

What we can do will make much difference to our society.

3)在适当的时候只言片语的鼓励足以令人改观。

Just a word or two at the right moment can make all the

difference to someone.

4)无论你做什么决定，对他都一样。 It will make no difference to

him, whatever you may decide.

3. get around / round / about 四处走动（旅行）；传开(spread)

1)The old lady gets around with the help of a stick.

2) The news that he was elected president soon got around.

get up 起来

get away from 离开；摆脱；回避；否认

get (sth) across (to sb) （某事）（为某人） 理解

get down to (sth / doing sth) 开始做…

get through 做完，通过；接通

get over 克服，战胜，掌握；恢复常态

1） It’s time that you got down to study (n.) or the other students

will leave behind.

2） He didn’t come because he couldn’t get away from his work.

3） I spoke slowly, but my meaning didn’t get across.

4） My secretary does everything very quickly; she can get

through a lot of work in a morning.

5） The news, ___ quickly through the country that he got a gold

medal at Guangzhou Asian Games.

A. was got around B. got around C. got over D. was

got over

4. confusing adj. 混乱的；混淆的；令人困惑的，难懂的

Sometimes the same word has a slightly different meaning,

which can be confusing. (P2)

1）The instructions on the box are very confusing.

2）It is a confusing problem.

3）It was confusing that he should give up the chance.

confuse vt. 使困惑，混淆；搞乱

confuse A with / and B 把 A和B混淆了

confused adj. （常指人）困惑的，烦恼的；杂乱的

get / be confused by …对…感到困惑的

confusion n. 困惑；混乱；混淆

in confusion 困惑地；迷惑地；在混乱中

翻译：

They confused me by asking so many confusing questions. I was

totally confused, standing there in confusion, not knowing what to

do.

他们提了一大堆令人费解的问题，把我难住了。我稀里糊涂，迷茫地站在那儿，全然不知所措。

The teacher didn’t explain the problem clearly, so many students

were ______. A. confusing B. confused C. to confuse D.

confusion

5. compare vt. 比较，对照；把……比作 vi. 相比，比得上 n. 比较

Prepositions, too, can be different: compare on the team, on the

weekend (American) with in the team, at the weekend (British).

(P2)

compare A with B 与……比较，相比

compare A to B 把…… 比作

Eg: In the 19th century, Charles Dickens compared the two cities,

London and Paris, in A Tale of Two Cities.

在19世纪，查尔斯*狄更斯在«双城记»中把伦敦和巴黎两座城市作了对比。

Compared with / to + n / pron 与……相比（过去分词短语作状语）

1) We often compare children to flowers of our country.

2) If you compare this car with that one, you’ll find this one is

better.

3) His spoken English doesn’t compare with yours.

4) Compared to / with the laid-off workers, we’re indeed very