公共英语三级(PETS3)阅读学习笔记 Unit 5
Unit 5 Weather and Climate
Dialogues/monologues:
I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently and swimmingly with foreigners was the principal motivation.
1、……having been brought up in the countryside.
bring up: 养育,教养;提出
2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into the first part of the morning.
我的翻译是:那些强劲的大风卷起一层云彩,还有些零星的小雨下了好一会,一直持续到清晨。
请高手赐教。
3、Clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single figures resulting in a touch of grand frost in some rural areas.
清凉的天空和微风让温度值降到了个位数,使得很多乡村地区出现了霜。
4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.
give away:让步。
太阳被一小片云层遮住了。
5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved in from the west.
6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of 58mph.