2．Blow out “吹灭，使熄灭” “(车胎)爆破”

The rain blew the fire out.

雨把火浇灭了。

The tyre blew out as I was driving to work.

我开车上班途中轮胎爆了。

1．as/so long as “假使，只要”

　　　 You can go out to play as long as you have finished your homework.

你只要完成了作业就可以出去玩。

6．Neither of us realized that night that these carvings and paintings dated back 15,000 years, nor that the headline in the newspaper would be “ the find of the century。。。”那天夜里， 我们谁也没有意识到，那些雕刻与绘画已存在15，000 年了，也没有想到报纸的大标题是“本世纪的发现。。。。。。”

第一个that是指示代词；第二个that 是宾语从句的连接代词

语言重点

5．…maybe by tomorrow morning the weather will have cleared up .

……也许到明天早晨，天就会晴了。

此句是将来完成时。clear up (天气)放晴

4．To get the fire going使火烧得旺起来

get something doing 表示“使某物动起来或继续下去”如：

Can you get the clock going again? 你能使这座钟再走起来吗？

I’ll get the car going.　 我要使车发动起来。　　　　

3. “ Light the fire not so near the entrance that the wind will blow the fire out ,and not so far in that the smoke will fill the cave,” said　 my brother. 我弟弟说：“ 点火不要太靠近洞口，那样风会把火吹灭的。也不要太靠近里边了，那样烟会充满山洞的”。

在so near the entrance 和so far in 后面的　 that 引导结果状语从句。

2．By now we were beginning too get tired and the rain was falling heavily.

这时我们开始感到疲倦，雨也下大了。

by now,到现在，至此。

如：

I hope you have understood me by now.

　 [背景介绍]

The story is fictional(虚构的). However , there are many true cases where archaeological(考古的)discoveries have been made by chance in caves. There are many caves with prehistoric (史前的) drawings, carvings and paintings in France and dates have been based on these archaeological sites.

[答疑解惑]

　 句子分析

1. One moment we were walking along the top of a hill and now we could see no more than about thirty meters ahead of us.

一时间我们还在山顶上行走，而现在30公尺外的地方我们都看不清了

7.今晚将要举行英语晚会。

6.祝您旅游愉快。