lesson3 The best and the worst

课文

 Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town.Nearly everybody enters for ‘The Nicest Garden Competition’ each year, but Joe wins every time.
 Bill Frith’s garden is larger than Joe’s. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe’s garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work.
  Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town.

单词

Nearly everybody enters for ‘The Nicest Garden Competition’ each year, but Joe wins every time

enter
v. 进入
…with the country entering a recession(衰退) and Japan at its pre-bubble peak…
Exploring one’s smartphone is more like entering his or her home.
By entering into the 2002 agreement, Entergy intended(打算) to…

competition
n. 比赛
mass competition
n. 竞争
Private businessmen… produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen
regional(区域) competition
business competition | trade competition
market competiton |unfair competition
stiff competiton |
competition law

Bill Frith’s garden is larger than Joe’s. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe’s garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.

path
n. 路 途径
future career path
…it was not the right path for me.
the path of related sciences.
a path to equality
President Trump has underlined fossil fuels(燃料)…as the path to economic growth.

wooden
n. 木头、树林
a sight of dense woods
…he employed（约等于use） metal, glass and laminated(层压木) wood…
woody material

pool
n. 池塘
the pool(人群) of qualified women
samll pools of water 小水池
v. 集中
…all would pool resources… 集中共享资源
a way of pooling mutual-fund assets 集中共同基金资产的方法

  I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work.
  Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town.

win
v.赢、获得
win a little prize for
Companies are eager to win patents(专利) for…

a win-win business model
the 'win at all costs’s moral standard
Evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment
Five Ways to Win Over(赢过) Everyone in the Office

语法

比较级/最高级
1 as…as…
That’s about as effective as brushing dirt under a carpet and can even make us ill.

2 …not so …as
Canadians are not so friendly as their neighbors. …it is not so easy as in dealing with adults

3 more…than
… the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented… than previously imagined.

4 less…than…
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price.

5 more and more/ the more… the more
…the Internet becomes more and more commericalized,… ,the more people online, the more potential customers there are.

Peretti remarked.“…when the market changes and the world changes.In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.”
Peretti believes that, in a changing world :aggressiveness better meets challenges.