B5L7 Three days to see

2012.11.20Rosalie

• I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being ________ stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.

were

• Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;

would teach him the joys of sound.

silence

• R I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied.

Recently

• How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing __________ of note? worthy

(be) worthy of + N (be) worth + V-ing

• I, cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch.

who

• I feel the delicate of a leaf. symmetry

• O , if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song.

Occasionally

• Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I, by some miracle,

granted three seeing dayswere

• On the first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life living. worth

(be) worthy of + N (be) worth + V-ing

• I should want ________________to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish it in my memory, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education.

not merely

• My eyes would respectfully the books in raised type, for during the long night of my life they have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life.

rest on

rest (up)on（眼神）停駐在

• The next day I should arise with the dawn and see the thrilling miracle by which night is into day. transformed

be transformed into 被轉型為……

• This day I should devote to a hasty glimpse of the world,

. past and present

• Often I have visited the New York Museum of Natural History to touch with my hands many of the objects there, but I have see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth—animals pictured in their native environment; gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs; realistic presentations of the process of evolution in animals.

longed to

• If I could see only one play, I should know how to picture in my mind the action of a hundred plays which I have read or had transferred to me through the of the manual alphabet.

medium

• I should hurry to one of those ＿＿＿＿＿structures, the Empire State Building.

gigantic

• I should ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ Fifth Avenue to make a tour of the city, to slums, to factories, to parks.

stroll down

• Mother Teresa’s selfless devotion/worthy/praise

(be) worthy of + N (be) worth + V-ing

Mother Teresa’s selfless devotion is worthy of praise.

• Hemingway’s books/worth/read

(be) worthy of + N (be) worth + V-ing

Hemingway’s books are worth reading.

• Picasso’s artwork/worthy/our appreciation

(be) worthy of + N (be) worth + V-ing

Picasso’s artwork is worthy of our appreciation

• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind.

• Hear the music of voices and the song of a bird as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Jason talks as though he were always right.

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

假設語氣

• Tom is not rich, but he talks

________________________________. (have/a million dollars)

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

as if he had a million dollars

與現在事實相反，用過去式動詞或 were

• Karen did not watch the soccer game last night, but she talked about it

________________________________. (see/it)

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

as if she had seen it

與過去事實相反，用過去完成式

Nancy acts

_______________________________________(own/that house)

, but she doesn’t own it.

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

as if she owned that house

與現在事實相反，用過去式動詞或

were

He has never been to Paris, but he spoke _______________________________________(

visit/the city)several times.

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

as if he had visited the city

與過去事實相反，用過去完成式

Daisy is not related to Kevin, but she scts _____________________________________ (be/his sister)

S1+V1 as if/though S2+V2 (subjunctive)

as if she were his sister

與現在事實相反，用過去式動詞或 were