2011年10月自考英语考前要点复习(12)

　　请翻译下面的词组：

　　1) 十个学生 ten students

　　数十个学生 tens of students

　　2) 五百年 five hundred years

　　数百年 hundreds of years

　　3) 两千年 two thousand years

　　数千年 thousands of years

　　4) 三百万美元 three million dollars

　　数百万美元 millions of dollars

　　5. Language learning is different from other kinds of learning.

　　句中be different from 意为“与…不同”，如：My opinion is different from yours.(我的观点与你的观点不同。)

　　请注意下面三个句子中所用的词组：

　　Man is different from all the other animals in his ability to learn and use a language.

　　Man differs from all the other animals in his ability to learn and use a language.

　　The greatest difference between man and all the other animals is his ability to learn and use a language.

　　从上面的句子中可以看出differ是动词，different 是形容词，difference是名词。

　　6. … find it difficult to succeed in language learning.

　　… find it difficult to succeed in other fields.

　　句中的it是形式宾语(formal object)，真正的宾语(real object)是不定式to succeed in language learning，此类用法在英语中很常见，请注意掌握。如：At first I found it difficult to remember all these new words.(开始我感到记住这些单词很难。)