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新东方考研英语必背500句:第221句

新东方考研英语必背500句

第221句

americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.

译文:美国人纷纷涌向博览会去欣赏新机械,也因此更加坚信技术进步会造福人类。

点睛:本句的主干结构是americans flocked to these fairs…;动词不定式to admire and thus to renew…作flocked的目的状语。renew their faith译为“更加坚信”。

考点归纳:flock意为“蜂拥”,其近义词还有:swarm“使成群”、throng“使成群”。

*flock作名词时指“鸟群、羊群”,也指“较小的动物群、人群”;作动词时指“聚集;成群地去(或来)”,有时具有贬义。
last-minute bargain hunters flocked to the shop.
店家大廉售时,想在最后一刻捡便宜的人蜂拥而至。
birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚,人以群分。

*swarm作名词时指“(昆虫等的)群”,作动词时指“成群地移动(或飞行);到处是人(或物);挤满(+ with)”,有时带有贬义或令人不快的感觉。
i saw the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the hun soldiers plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.
我曾看到大批头脑愚蠢、训练有素、唯命是从而又凶暴残忍的德国士兵,像一群蝗虫在蠕蠕行进。
customers swarmed into the store.
顾客蜂拥挤进商店。
the castle swarmed with sightseers.
这座城堡里到处都是观光客。

*cluster意为“使成群(+together)”,是中性词。
the peak was so cold that the mountain-climbers clustered together for warmth.
山顶太冷,登山者聚集在一起取暖。
the square was clustered with people.
广场上聚集着成群的人。