1.words and expressions?

pregnant

I?don't?like?baseball?movies?that?go?into?slow?motion?when?the?batter?hits?a?home?run, to?notify?me?that?it's?a?pregnant?moment.

ADJ ?耐人尋味的；意味深長的；心照不宣的；A?pregnant?silence?or?moment?has?a?special?meaning?which?is?not?obvious?but?which?people?are?aware?on f.

There?was?a?long,?pregnant?silence. 當時出現了長時間耐人尋味的沉默。

a deceptive?peace,?pregnant?with?invisible?threats.一種和平的假象，潛伏著許多無形的威脅

usage。

一個婦女懷孕幾個月，可以說She?is?...?months?pregnant.

問她懷孕了幾個月，字面上固然可以說：How?many?months?are?you?pregnant??但是一般更多說How?pregnant?are?you??這里的how不是問狀態，而是問懷孕的程度，亦即時間的長短。

說懷某個孩子，用pregnant?with或pregnant?for，但用with較多。pregnant?with?her?third?child懷上她的第三個孩子?/?pregnant?for?Peter懷著彼得。

pregnant?with還可以轉義為“孕育著、蘊涵著、預示著（某種事件或局面）”。words?pregnant?with?emotion蘊涵著激情的言詞 She?kept?a?silence?which?was?pregnant?with?indications?of?how?much?more?she?could?say. 她保持沉默，但這暗示著她還有好多的話要說。

litter

This?kind?of?prose?is?littered?with?precipitous?cliffs?and?lacy?spiderwebs...

這個及物動詞的搭配有點特別。它的直接賓語（也是被動句的主語），可以是亂丟各處的雜物或垃圾，也可以是上面到處有雜物或垃圾的地方或表面。

前一種搭配的。【例如】There?were?books?littered?all?over?the?room.?滿屋子到處亂丟著書。后一種搭配則更為多見?！纠纭縏he?boy?has?littered?his?room?with?toys.?男孩子的房間里亂丟著許多玩具（主語是人，雜物用with引入）。/?Clothing?littered?the?floor.?地板上亂丟著衣服（主語是雜物。/?The?roof?of?the?main?building?was?littered?with?over?five?hundred?antennas.?主樓屋頂上架滿了五百多根天線。/?Mistakes?littered?the?text.?錯誤連篇。/?History?is?littered?with?such?examples.?歷史上這種例子屢見不鮮。/?Alzheimer's?litters?the?brain?with?tiny?bits?of?a?substances?called?plaque.?老年癡呆癥使得腦子里到處亂放著小塊的叫做癍塊的物質（參見strew條）。

dead centre

...you’d see families sitting at square tables in the dead center of square rooms.

本來是形容詞，但在若干場合可以當作副詞使用，表示“完全”、“十分”?！纠纭縟ead ahead正在前頭 / dead certain確信 / dead drunk酩酊大醉 / dead easy易如反掌 / dead right十分正確 / dead slow慢吞吞 / dead straight筆直 / dead sure蠻有把握 / dead tired疲憊不堪。/ His parents were dead against the marriage. 他的父母堅決反對這門親事。

反之，dead加了后綴-ly，反而成了個純粹的形容詞，意思是“致人死命的”或是“噩耗頻傳的”?！纠纭緾yanide is a deadly poison. 氰化物是一種致人死命的毒藥。/ This past Aug. and September were the two deadliest months on record for Iraqis... (Newsweek, Oct. 30, 2006, p. 49) 今年八、九兩月是有記錄以來伊拉克人喪生最多的月份…

■dead與die

英語往往以表示狀態的dead來代替表示變化的die。【例如】He is dead. 他死了（代替He has died.）。/ He has been dead for ten years. 他死了十年了（代替He died ten years ago.）。/ He was dead on arrival at the hospital. 他送到醫院時已經死亡（代替He had died before arrival at the hospital.）。

但是有關于死亡當時的時間、地點、情狀等附帶說明時，不能用dead，要用die?！纠纭縏wo of them had died (*had been dead) during the rescue. 其中兩人在搶救當中死去。

累計死亡人數時也應該用動詞die?！纠纭縯he names of 1,622 US soldiers who have died(*are dead) in Iraq (The Associated Press, May 24, 2005) 在伊拉克陣亡的1622名美軍士兵的名字。

touch off

New sights touch off thoughts that otherwise wouldn’t have entered the writer’s mind.

引發;觸發;引起?

If something touches off a situation or series of events, it causes it to start happening.

Is the massacre likely to touch off a new round of violence?

大屠殺有可能觸發新一輪的暴行嗎？

click into place

I’m?often?amazed,?dipping?into?my?past,?to?find?some?forgotten?incident?clicking?into?place?just?when?I?need?it.

Click?into?place?豁然開朗、恰好吻合

have a feeling for

In?only?two?paragraphs?we?have?a?feeling?not?only?for?the?tackiness?of?the?New?California?landscape...

Feel?for?同情

If?you?feel?for?someone,?you?have?sympathy?for?them.

2.summary