新概念英語第三冊逐句精講語言點 第39課 不必擔心 (4)

　　Because of this, we kept lookingback, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oil and petrol behind us.

　　What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to a stretchof plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes. But there was worse tocome. J

　　10.Because of this, we kept looking back, wondering if we were leaving a trail of oiland petrol behind us.

　　因此，我們不時地掉過頭，懷疑車后是否留下了機油和汽油的痕跡。

　　語言點1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:wondering if…是現(xiàn)在分詞結(jié)構(gòu)，作伴隨狀語，其中的if引導賓語從句，說明wondering的內(nèi)容。

　　語言點2:keep looking back的意思是“不斷地向后看”。

　　11.What a relief it was when the boulders suddenly disappeared, giving way to astretch of plain where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes.

　　突然大石塊不見了，前面是一片平地，唯一的障礙只有一簇簇灌木叢。這使我們長長地松了口氣。

　　語言點:give way to的意思是“給…讓路”。

　　12.But there was worse to come.

　　但是更糟糕的事情在等著我們。

　　語言點:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:worse指代“更糟糕的事情”。To come為動詞不定式結(jié)構(gòu)，充當worse的后置定語。