Using LanguageⅡ教学实录及点评

1. More than twenty of these he still holds, including the record of having the most records. 迄今为止他仍然保持着当中的二十多项记录，其中包括保持创造最多记录的记录。

More than twenty of these he still holds= He still holds more than twenty of these records 这里使用的倒装，目的是从语意上强调more than twenty of these records. 2. But these records are not made in any conventional sport like swimming or soccer.

conventional 这个词的词义可从后面的举例中猜得，如swimming, soccer都属于传统、常规体育运动。所以conventional 的英文释义为

A conventional method or product is one that is usually used or that has been in use for a long time. 例：These discs hold more than 400 times as much information as a conventional computer floppy disk. 3. Rather Ashrita attempts to break records in very imaginative events and in very interesting places. 1) attempt 作动词的英文释义为

If you attempt to do something, especially something difficult, you try to do it.

固定用法为attempt to do sth.

例：All attempts to control inflation have failed. 所有为控制通货膨胀而作的尝试都失败了。

attempt 作名词的英文释义为

If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success. 2) 句子开头的rather, 事实上与上句相接。是not ...but rather“不是（做某事）而是（做另外的事）”结构的运用，But these records are not made in any ..., but rather Ashrita attempts to break records ...。例：The committee does not deal with individual correspondence, but rather discuss issues in its newspaper. 该委员会不处理个人信件，而是在简报中讨论问题。

3）imaginative （形容词）指（人）想象力丰富的或（某物）富有想象力的

例：an imaginative child 想象力丰富的孩子；

imaginative writing 富有想象力的文章

试比较imaginary

（形容词）

指想象的，虚构的

例：All the characters in this book are imaginary. 本书人物纯属虚构。

4. Think about the fine neck adjustments needed to keep a full bottle of milk on your head while you are walking.

1) 本句是个祈使句，即Think about the neck adjustments.

2) “needed to keep a full bottle of milk on your head while you are walking.”是动词的过去分词结构作定语，

修饰前面的名词adjustments, 表“行走时头顶满瓶牛奶所需的”“极好的颈平衡”。

3）

adjustment原意为“调整，调节，校正”, a small change made to something, such as a machine, a system, or the way something looks;常

用的表达是make adjustments “作调整”。

该词在本句中的引申意为“经细微调整而保持平衡”。

adjustment 也可指（行为、心态方面的）调整，如：the adjustments required of someone moving to a foreign country 移居外国者必须做出的调整。

5. While Ashrita makes standing on top of a 75 cm Swiss ball look easy, it is not. 1) while 在此句中相当于有“让步”功能的although, though. 2) it 指代了standing on top of a 75 cm Swiss ball. 3) Ashrita makes standing on top of a 75 cm Swiss ball look easy 用了“主语+ make +宾语+ 宾补（省略to 的不定式）”，即

make sth. do ，本句的意思是“Ashrita 令站立在75厘米高的健身球上看起来很简单”。

类似的用法如：Mum always makes the questions easier to understand by giving me some examples.

make +宾语+宾补（形容词）

6. Somersaulting is a tough event as you have to overcome dizziness, extreme tiredness and pain. 本句中的as引导原因状语从句，“因为不得不克服头晕，极度疲劳和疼痛”，可推测“翻筋斗是个很费力的项目”。

tough 的英文释义是difficult to do or deal with, and needing a lot of effort and determination难办的，棘手的，费力的。

例：Life as a single mother can be tough and depressing.单身母亲的生活

可能会艰难而压抑。

The reporters were asking a lot of tough questions.记者们问了许多难以回答的问题。

7. Covering a mile in the fastest time while doing gymnastically correct lunges is yet another event in which Ashrita is outstanding.另外一个Ashrita表现出色的项目是用最快的时间以弓箭步跑完一英里。

这句是“主系表”的结构. 主语是动名词结构Covering a mile in the fastest time while doing gymnastically correct lunges. 表语是another event in which Ashrita is outstanding, 其中in which Ashrita is outstanding 是定语从句修饰先行词event. 8. Sri Chinmoy says that it is just as important for people to develop their bodies as it is to develop their minds, hearts and spiritual selves. 1) 划横线的两个it都是形式主语，分别代表不定式to develop their bodies 和to develop their minds, hearts and spiritual selves. 2）

as... as...原级比较结构表示，“人的身体素质与心理是同样重要的”。

9. He had been urged by his spiritual leader to enter the marathon even though he had done no training.

1) urge 的英文释义是strongly advise someone to do something, 即

催促，力劝（某人）

常见用法是urge sb. to do sth. 例：Brown urged her to reconsider her decision. 布朗极力劝说她重新考虑自己的决定。【出处：21教育名师】

2）

even though = even if 表让步，即“尽管”。

3）

he had done no training = he had not done any training, 所以“no + 名词”，相当于“not +a(an, any)+名词”

10. So, when he won third place, he came to the understanding that his body was just an instrument of the spirit and that he seemed to be able to use his spirit to accomplish anything. 1）

come to do sth. = begin to do sth., especially to have a particular feeling or opinioin about someone or something as a result of time or experience 开始做某事（尤指随着时间或经历的增长，开始对某人或某物产生某种感情或看法）

例：In time you may come to like it here. 过段时间，你可能会喜欢上这儿的。

You have come to mean a lot to me. 你对我开始变得很重要。

2）accomplish 指完成（任务等），取得（成功），相当于to succeed in doing something, especially after trying very hand, achieve. 例：We have accomplished all we set out to do. 所有计划要做的事情，我们都已完成。

11. From then on, Ashrita refused to accept any physical limitation. = From then on, Ashrita began to challenge any physical limitation. 自从那时起, Ashrita 开始挑战任何身体的极限

12. The motivation to keep trying to break records comes through his

devotion to Sri Chinmoy. 他不断尝试打破记录的动力出自他对Sri Chinmoy的热爱. 由此可知Sri Chinmoy is a teacher who inspires respect and devotion from his pupil, Ashrita. motivation 名词, “动力,诱因,积极性,兴趣”

例:Joe’s teacher says that he lacks motivation (= that he sees no reason to work hard). 乔的老师说他缺乏学习的动力. The motivation (= reasons) for the decision is the desire to improve our service to our customers.

作这决定的原因是为了改善我们对顾客的服务. 13. Ashrita always acknowledges his teacher in his record-breaking attempts. 本句可理解为Ashrita always shows or says he is grateful for ) his teacher, for the spiritual help Sri Chinmoy has offered in his attempts of breaking records. acknowledge 动词，英文释义为to accept, admit or recognize (something, or the truth or existence of something ) ,表“承认,接受,认为”。【版权所有：21教育】

例: 1) She acknowledged having been at fault. 她承认自己错了. 2) Historians generally acknowledge her as a genius in her field. 历史学家们普遍认为她是她所在领域的一个天才.

3) He even didn’t acknowledge my presence (show that he had seen me). 他甚至没有表示他已经看到了我。