Alice In Wonderland notes

倒装

• Before him appeared something / that looked like a floating head / but with no body attached.
  • 主语：something that ... attach
  • 主语太长所以倒装
  • Something that looked like a floating head but with no body attached appeared before him.

虚拟语气

情态动词+完成式

• 用来表示对过去事实的猜想
  • 英语中常用向过去的时态表示不确定和否定，越过去的时态越不确定和否对
  • 用将来时态表示肯定，越将来越肯定
  • Even if Alice had not known / that they were going to the home / of the March Hare, she might have been able to guess / who lived there.

拟人

• A cold feeling danced / across Alice's skin.
  • dance在此不是简单地跳舞
  • 将一股冰冷的感觉拟人化
  • 用dance形容这股冰冷的感觉快速涌过Alice的身体

Sentences

• The fisherman went ahead in his small boat in the angry sea.
  • 渔夫开着小船再波涛汹涌中前行着。
• Police lined up on both sides of the road.
• sharp
  • However, it was said he had the sharpest nose in all the land.
    • 据说
  • She has a sharp eye for beauty.
    • 她有一双发现美的眼睛
• 她笑着，眼中流露出喜悦
  • Her eyes lit up with laughter.
• She ground her teeth in anger at the robber's violence.
  • 面对强盗们的暴行，她愤怒得咬牙切齿
• We shall see.
  • 让我们拭目以待

The first thing / one noticed about the Red Queen / was her huge head. That was also the second / and third thing / one noticed, and possibly all / one might ever notice /about her, as it really was huge.

• one       
  • 不是1，而是泛指得“大家”
• 这也是人们住哟到得第二和三件事，也可能是人们对她得全部注意

taking a step  back

• 退后了一步

 take a step out of the Queen's reach

• 朝着红皇后够不着的地方跨了一步

I asked out of curiosity.

• out of
  • 由于

When she opened the cupboard, she smelt a musty smell and pulled a face.

• 她打开柜子后闻到一阵难闻的霉味，不禁做了个鬼脸。
• The girl gazed in wonder at the shiny diamond.
  • 女孩惊奇地看着闪闪发光的钻石。

Given Words

• sense of unease - 不安感
• daring
  • 挑衅地问，问...有没有胆量做
  • The Tweedles stared at each other in shock, almost daring one another to disagree about / what had just happened.
• right now
  • 马上
• mad
  • mad
    • a. 生气的，发疯似的，忙乱的
    • hurrying or excited and not having time to think or plan
      • It had been dropped in the mad hurry to escape the Bandersnatch.
        • 为了躲避B，它被慌乱的丢在地上
      • They made a mad dash for the bus.
        • 他们慌乱地赶公交
      • I was in mad rush trying to get everything ready before sleep.
        • 我急急忙忙地想要在睡觉前把一切收拾好。
• staff
  • The staff spooted that I was in trouble and came before sleep.

  

• everyone / people
  • everyone / everybody / anyone / anybody + has / is
  • people + were / are / have
• mark
  • This white dress tends to be marked, so be careful.
    • Inanimate subject
    • 容易
      • sth. tend to do
• Stick
  • n. 枝条、木条、木棍
  • v 刺、戳、插
    • The nurse stuck the needle into my arm.
    • A thorn stuck into her finger.
      • thorn
        • 刺
      • throne
        • n. 王座
  • stick out
    • 探出、露出、凸出
      • The long chimneys / sticking out the top / were shaped like rabbit ears.
      • His head was sticking out from the box.
      • Rabbit feet could be see / sticking up out of the ground / in place of a fence.
        • in place of
          • 代替 
• lie at
  • 位于
• ever since
  • 自从那以后一直
• against
  • prep. 以......为背景、衬托
    • The pale, washed-out colors / were hard to see / against the brown and gray background.
      • 在棕色和灰色的背景的衬托下，惨白的褪色很难被看清
    • The love story unfolds against a background of civil war.
      • 爱情故事以内战为背景展开
  • prep. 反对，与......相反