Live互動英語學習報 --九月二日



						每月新書限時優惠

2011 年 09 月 02 日 (No.526)

		clamp 作名詞時，指用來固定東西的「夾子；夾鉗」；作動詞用時，則有「夾緊；夾住」的意思
		，而 clamp down on 就是「對……施壓；限制」的意思，亦可寫為 put the clamp on。

		示範句：
		The United States has asked other countries to clamp down on CD piracy.
		美國已要求其他國家嚴加取締盜版 CD。


		clip 有「剪去；修剪；剪短」的意思，而 clip the wings of 的字面意思是「剪去……的雙翼」，
		若是剪去鳥禽類的雙翼，當然就無法恣意飛翔了。可藉此用來比喻「使……受挫；阻撓……順利
		進行」。

		示範句：
		The election results have clipped the wings of the ruling party.
		選戰結果讓執政黨受挫。

	使用情境
angle	⊙（兩線相交而成的）角、角度
	⊙（觀看某物的）視角；（某物來的）方向
	⊙（思維的）角度
corner	（某空間，如房間或街道的）角落、轉角處

示範句：

angle

The ancient tower is leaning at a four-degree angle.

那座古塔以四度角傾斜著。

Claire wrote the article again from a different angle.

克萊兒把這篇文章從不同的角度又寫了一遍。

corner

There is a pile of toys in the corner of the children's room.

小孩房的角落有一堆玩具。

The office is on the corner of First Avenue and Main Street.

辦公室位在第一大道與主街的轉角。

The Thirsty Crow (2)

口乾舌燥的烏鴉 (2)

"Will somebody please help me?" sobbed the crow. He cried and cried, but nobody heard him. Finally, he dried his eyes and stood up.

He tried knocking over the vase, but it was too heavy. Then he tried breaking it, but he wasn't strong enough. Finally, he had a good idea. He began dropping stones into the vase. The water slowly rose to the top. At last, the crow could drink.

"What wonderful water!" said the crow. "I'm glad that I didn't waste all my time with tears. Thinking is much better than crying!"

烏鴉啜泣說：「有人能幫幫我嗎？」牠不停地哭，但是沒人聽見。最後，牠擦乾眼淚，站了起來。

牠試著撞倒花瓶，但是花瓶太重。接著牠試著打破花瓶，但是牠不夠強壯。最後，牠想到了一個好主意。牠開始丟石頭到花瓶裡，水慢慢地上升到瓶口。烏鴉總算可以喝水了。

烏鴉說：「真美味的水啊！我很慶幸自己沒有把時間全浪費在哭泣。想辦法比只會哭泣好多了！」


sob	v.	啜泣 (sob-sobbed-sobbed)

dry	v.	使乾燥 (dry-dried-dried)

glad	adj.	高興的

waste	v.	浪費