外研版英语八年级下册Module5 Unit2 教材知识详解

Module5 Unit2 教材知识详解

1. Nemo is a cute orange-and-white fish. 尼莫是一条机灵的橙白相间的鱼。

orange-and-white意为“橙白相间的”，是复合形容词，中间用连字符连

接，用来修饰后面的名词。复合形容词没有复数。 如：He is a ten-year-old boy .他是一个十岁的男孩

2. But both of them have won the hearts of young people all over the world. 但他们两个都赢得了全世界年轻人的心。

(1) win the heart of sb. /win sb’s heart 意为“赢得某人的喜欢”。

如：The play won the hearts of the audience.该剧赢得了观众的心。

(2) both of表示“两者都”，后接复数名词，作主语时谓语动词用复数，其否定词组为neither of，表示“（两者中）没有一个”。

如：Both of them like basketball.他们两个都对足球感兴趣。 3. The pictures of these popular cartoon heroes are everywhere. 这些颇受欢迎的卡通故事的主人公随处可见。

everywhere意为“在各个地方；处处”，相当于here and there，一般用

于肯定句中。如：Advertisements are like air — they are everywhere. 广告像空气一样，到处都是。

(1) somewhere意为“在/到某处”，一般用于肯定句中。但在预料会得

到肯定回答的疑问句中仍用somewhere。

(2) anywhere表示“在/到某处”时，一般用在否定句或疑问句中；当表示“任何地方”时，则可以用在肯定句中。

4. They always expect to see more Monkey King cartoons. 他们总是期望看到更多的美猴王的卡通片。

expect v. 期盼；等待，常用的结构：expect + n. / pron. 期待某人或某物；

expect + to do sth. 期待去做某事；expect + sb. to do sth. 期望某人做某事。 如： I’m expecting a letter. 我在等一封信。

5. He has been popular for over eighty years, ever since the artist Herge invented him in1929.自从艺术家艾尔热1929年把他创作出来后，他已风靡了八十多年。

invent用作及物动词，意为“发明，创造”，发明本来没有、被创造出

来的东西。如：Edison invented the light bulb.爱迪生发明了电灯。

ever since从那时起，此后一直。既可以单独位于句末，又可以引导时间

状语从句，相当于since，从句中时态常用一般过去时，主句常用现在完成时。 如：I have never heard from her ever since.那时起我就一直没有收到她的来信。 Ever since I was little, my favorite season has been winter. 从我小时候以来，我最喜欢的季节就是冬天。

6. Fans have bought about 200 million copies of Tintin’s stories in more than fifty languages.

丁丁的粉丝已经累积购买了约2亿册50多种不同语言的丁丁故事。

copy为可数名词，表示“一册，一份”。a copy of 意为“一份/一

册……”。

如：We are offering a free gift with each copy you buy. 每买一册就可以得到一份免费的礼物。

7. Snoopy lives in his own private world and finds real life hard to understand. 史努比生活在自己的私人世界里，认为现实生活很难理解。

find+宾语+宾语补足语，real life是宾语，hard to understand是宾语补足

语。如：He found the question difficult to answer.他发现这个问题很难回答。 8. Charles Schulz created Snoopy and his friends, and drew the cartoons to satisfy older people as well as children.查尔斯?舒尔茨创造了史努比和他的朋友们，并且画成漫画来使老年人和儿童满意。

as well as表示“不仅……而且……，除……之外”，相当于not only... but

also...。as well as在意义上通常强调前者，而not only... but also…在意义上则强调后者。如：He’s got a car as well as a motorbike. =He’s got not only a motorbike but also a car. 他不但有一辆摩托车，而且有一辆小汽车。

(1)当as well as连接两个主语时，谓语动词在人称和数上与前者保持