| 词条 | writing for unit 2 7.8 |
| 释义 | Writing for unit 2 7—8 In paragraph 7, the word “has” refers to “everyone has”. In the second sentence, the word “immune” means not affected by a given influence. The last sentence of paragraph 7 is a very long sentence. However, the construction of the sentence is not very complicated. After “we have been taught”, there are three paratactic attributive clauses which is leaded by “that”. And “there are times when…” means at times. In the eighth paragraph, there are three sentences. In the first sentence, the author use three words to tell us “showing off” are so bad. These words are “offensive”, “acceptable” and “never nice”. The meaning of the word “Offensive” is highly irritating or annoying, unpleasant or disagreeable to the sense, disgusting. The last sentence “And like narcissistic showoffs who are willing to do anything to be and to stay the center of attention.” Here the word “narcissistic” comes from “Narcissus”. In Greek Mythology, Narcissus was a very attractive young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and died as a result. He turned into a flower that bears his name. in “to be and to stay the center of attention”, “to stay” is a link verb meaning “remain as, go on being”. This section, the author wanted to tell us that nobody can escape from showing off and which kind of showing off always loathed by other people. |
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