新概念英语经典句型

《新概念》自1967年诞生之日起，便以其编排的科学性和系统性，知识的广博性和实用性，哲理的缜密性和严谨性风靡世界，在英语教学领域谱写了神话般的传奇。
俗话说：天下文章一大抄。这种治学之道固应摈弃，但也给我们以启示：任何事物的创新绝非臆想，而是秉承前人、去粗取精的过程，是继承和发展的辨证法。对于语言的运用尤是如此。所以，若想写就布局错落有致、文字清新隽丽的美文佳篇，熟读并模仿一些精品佳作乃为上策。《新概念》堪为效仿之范本。
英文写作之初，首先要了解汉、英思维差异。简略而言，汉式写作的一般模式是：运用事例先做铺垫，通过层层推理和步步深入，最后呈现观点或主旨，这就啊是通常意义上的分总法；而欧美人的思维方式恰恰相反。作者一般会开宗明义，将观点置于文章起首部分，而后辅以事例佐证，这种方式被称为总分法，多见于议论文(argumentation) 和说明文(exposition)，这两种文体正是现行考试作文的主导类型。
《新概念》收录的篇章基本沿用了这种模式（尤以三、四册突出）。试看三册第4课“The Double Life of Alfred Bloggs”。全文的主题句(topic sentence)出现在第一段中：“Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers.”(许多人情愿放弃较高的薪水以换取做白领工人的荣耀，这是人之本性。)而第二段是事例讲解，围绕主人公Alfred Bloggs的经历进一步阐明前述观点。再看三册47课“Too high a price?”全文共分三段，每段的起首句即是本段的主题句。第一段：“Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated and over-industrialized planet.”(污染就是我们为这个人口过密、过度工业化的星球所付出的代价。)第二段：“Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.”(然而，垃圾只是我们这个星球污染问题的一个方面。)第三段：“However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.”（但是，还有一种更加有害的污染，尤其会影响城镇地区，干扰我们的日常生活，那就是噪音。）
笔者依据多年的教学实践，从《新概念》中摘选了一些常用于英文写作的套用段落和句型，并加以分类处理，以期对英语爱好者和众多应试者有所裨益。
开宗明义型
1. Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up. （三册29课）
译文：我们觉得一则笑话是否可笑，很大程度上取决于我们生长在何地。
示例：Whether we find a plan feasible or not largely depends on whethe

r it can bring profits.
译文：我们觉得一个计划是否可行，很大程度上取决于它能否产生效益。
2. The quiet life of the country has never appealed to me. （三册41课）
译文：宁静的乡村生活从来没有吸引过我。
示例：The noisy, busy life of the city has never appealed to me.
译文：喧闹、忙碌的城市生活从来没有吸引过我。
3. Although truth and justice may be the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are others. Compassion is one of them. (四册60课)
译文：虽然勇于直言和富有正义感可能是表现道德勇气的最强的推动力，但还有其它因素。怜悯便是其中之一。
示例：Although science and technology may be the most powerful impulses to push forward a country, there are others. The overall quality of its people is one of them.
译文：虽然科技可能是推动一个国家进步的最大动力，但还有其它因素。国民的整体素质便是其中之一。
点评：以上几例都是文章的起首句，即全文的观点句。作者几乎没有做任何过渡和铺设，鲜明直白，直抒胸臆，与汉语表达方式的迂回委婉大相径庭。也应了这样一个道理：越简单，越深刻。望应试者多加注意。
描述现状型
1. With the advent of the new phase of technology we call automation, we have the promise both of greater leisure and even greater material and intellectual riches. （四册56课）
译文：随着我们称之为自动化的新时代的到来，我们将拥有更多的闲余时光，享有更多的物质和精神财富。
示例：With the advent of the 21st century, we have the promise of a wider choice of employment and therefore, more opportunities to make fortune.
译文：随着21世纪的到来，我们将拥有更多的就业和赚钱机会。
2. Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives, and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented. （四册56课）
译文：科技已渗入我们生活的每一个方面，其结果是社会以前所未有的速度发生着变化。
示例：Advertising has come to pervade every aspect of our lives, and, as a result, it is playing an increasingly more essential role in our purchases.
译文：广告已渗入我们生活的每一个方面，其结果是它在我们的购买活动中起着越来越重要的作用。
点评：在描述社会发展等话题时，例1是我们比较熟悉的模式，即汉语中的“随着…”; 例2则比较新颖，句型结构更加复杂，在写作中可交替使用，富于变化。
启承转合型
1. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. (三册12课)
译文：另一种想法恰恰相反。
2. This idyllic pastoral scene is only part of the picture. (三册41课)

译文：这种田园诗般的乡村美景只是一个侧面。
点评：在议论文写作过程中，中国考生一般是将所有观点按序排列，若要转换话题时，多以but, however等词过渡，略显单薄和单调。而以上两例不仅可以延展文章的长度，也具有视觉缓冲的效果，使阅卷人或读者能继续保持较高的注意力和兴趣度。
利弊说明型
1.The car has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility. The car tempts people further out and then gives them the appalling problem of getting back. It makes them believe they can spend Sunday in Brighton, but makes it impossible for them to return before, say, two in the morning. （四册46课）
译文：汽车有着令人奇怪的自相矛盾：它创造了机动性，又亲自将其毁掉。汽车诱使人们更加远行，然后又使他们面临如何返回的巨大难题。它使人们相信能在布莱顿度过周末，却无法在凌晨两点返回。
点评：利弊说明是议论文中频繁采用的写作手段，其方式一般分为两种，一种是将优点和缺点分别罗列，构成比较的两大整块，即A,A,A…, B,B,B…型（A为优点，B为缺点，下同）；另一种则是将优、缺点交叉罗列，即上例使用的A,B,A, B…型。相对而言，后者条理更加清晰，读者更易理解。
说明阐述型
1. Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. The former method simply consists of setting an elephant to work and beating him until he does what is expected of him….The gentle method requires more patience in the early stages, but produces a cheerful, good-tempered elephant who will give many years of loyal service. （四册51课）
译文：驯象主要有两种方法，可分别称为强硬法和温柔法。简而言之，前一种方法就是让象干活，并把它打到顺从为止。…温柔法在早期需要（驯象者）更大的耐心，但驯出的象心甘情愿，脾气好，会为主人忠心服务多年。
点评：该例是说明文极为常见的类型，叙述时如果想使语言增加变化，可采用词汇替换等手段。另需注意：说明文宜多采用被动式，译成汉语时可考虑采用主动式。
归纳总结型
1. As is often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used equally for good or evil. (四册27课)
译文：人们常说知识是一把双刃剑，它既能造福人类，也能祸害人类。
示例：As is often pointed out, income-tax is a two-edged weapon which, on the one hand, narrows the gap between the haves and the have nots, and to some extent dampens the passion of the former on the other.
译文：人们常说收入所得税是一把双刃剑。一方面它使得贫富差距缩小，而另一方面一定程度上挫伤了高收

入者的积极性。
2. What characterizes almost all Hollywood pictures is their inner emptiness. (四册12课)
译文：几乎所有好莱坞影片的特点就是其内在的空洞性。
示例：What characterizes almost all TV programs is their monotony.
译文：几乎所有电视节目的特点就是单调乏味。
示例：What characterizes almost all newspapers and magazines is the excess of commercials.
译文：几乎所有报刊杂志的特点就是篇幅过多的商业广告。
3. Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain: silence, it seems, has become a golden memory. （三册47课）
译文：无论何种噪声源，有一点是肯定的：宁静似乎已成为金色的回忆了。
点评：议论文最常见的结尾方式是以so, therefore, thus, hence等标志词引导。而以上三例则另辟蹊径，表达方式千姿百态，却起到了殊途同归的功效。因此，充足的知识储备才能真正达到“下笔如有神”的境界。
.Experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is corned.(lesson 1)
a) Sociologists claim that children will not attack their parents and teachers unless they are cornered.
b) Many people worry that the environment will be worsening unless the harsher measures of environmental protection are executed/carried out.

2.It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.(lesson 1)
a) It is frustrating to learn that many junior middle school students are not admitted to senior high school in China.
b) It is disappointing to hear that numerous pupils like to play truant/skip classes.

3. Our vicar/priest is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired.(lesson 2)
a) Our government is always raising money for one cause or another , but it has never managed to completely eradicate the poverty and illiteracy.
b) Some children are always asking their parents for money for one cause or another, for they do not know how hard their parents work..
1. The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed high level of civilization.(lesson 3)
2. Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.(lesson 3)
3. These days, people who do manual work often receive far more money than people who work in offices.(lesson 4)
a) Nowadays, people who study abroad are more likely to find a better job than people who study at home.
b) People who contribute much to the society are more popular than people who contribute less.

7. People who work in offices are frequently referred to as white- collar workers for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar to go to work.(lesson 4)
a) More and more people are becoming conscious of the importance of environmental protect

ion for the simple reason that the worsening environment is seriously detrimental to people’s health.
b) Numerous people have begun to raise /keep pets for the simple reason that raising/keeping pets can not only drive off one’s loneliness ,but enhance the consciousness of protecting animals.

8.He feels that his rise in status is well worth the loss of money. (lesson 4)
a) She thought that her achievement in her work was well worth her efforts that she made.
b) We assume that taking adventures for young people is well worth trying.

9.Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.(lesson 5)
a) Some employers frequently go to extremes to make more profits.
b) She always go to extremes to express herself.
4. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of wall.(lesson 5)
5. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that he he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.(lesson 5)
6. The silence was suddenly broken when a large car , with its headliughts on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade (lesson 6)
7. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. (lesson 6)
8. So long as there is something to identify, we will give people their money back. (lesson 7)
9. Now that a tunnel has been built through the mountains, the Pass is less dangerous, but each year, the dogs are still sent out into the snow whenever a traveler is in difficulty. (lesson 8)
16. Cats never fail to fascinate human beings. (lesson 9)
a) Money never fails to fascinate human beings.
b) Space research never fails to fascinate human beings.

17. One of the things that fascinates us most about cats is the popular belief that cats have nine lives.(lesson 9)
a) One of the things that fascinates us most about TV/computer is the popular belief that TV/computer is not only used as an entertainment, but also helps us learn knowledge.
b) One of the things that fascinates us most about high technology is the popular belief that high technology such as robots can not only replace people to do dangerous work, but helps to release/free our mothers from the heavy and tedious households.
18. The tragic sinking of this great liner will always be remembered, for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss of life.(lesson 10)

12. He was greeted by an unpleasant smell which convinced him that I was telling the truth.(lesson 11)
a)They were greeted by a crowd of reporters from the moment they arrived at the airport.
b) We were greeted by the evening sights along the Pearl River when we climbed onto the top of the mountains.
13. Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of l

ife on a desert island.(lesson 12)
14. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, wanting for a boat which never comes.(lesson12)
15. She intended to dress up as a ghost and as she had made her costume the night before, she was impatient to try it on. (lesson13)
16. Not wanting to frighten the poor man, She quickly hid in the small storeroom under the stairs.( lesson 13)
17. There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sum of money to gangsters in return for protection.(lesson14)
a) There was a time when thousands of university teachers dropped their teaching and embarked on doing business in China.
b) There was a time when few people knew about the mysterious space.
25. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.(lesson14)
a) As long ago as the15th century, Psychologists made the surprising discovery that the more one wants to get something, the more difficult you may make it to get.
b) Advertisers have made a remarkable discovery that people normally like to get something for nothing.
26.George was not too upset by his experience because the lady who owns the sweet shop heard about his troubles and rewarded him with a large box of chocolates.(lesson15)
27.He described the New York harbour as “a very agreeable situation located whin two small hills in the midst of which flowed a great river.”(lesson 17)
28.However, size and strengths are not the only important things about this bridge. Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer’s dream to create “an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible.”(lesson17)
29. Modern sculpture rarely/hardly/seldom surprises us any more.(lesson18)
a) Street dancing in Guang Zhou rarely surprises us any more.
b) Horrible movies on TV rarely surprises us any more.
30. The first thing I saw when I entered the art gallery was a notice which said: ”Don’t touch the exhibits. Some of are dangerous!”(lesson18)
a) The first thing I will do when I am abroad is to find a house which is convenient for me to go to school.
b) The first thing I noticed when I arrived at the airport was a creative advertisement about food which said “Tasting is believing”
31. Considering the amount she paid, the cat was dear more ways than one.(lesson19)
32. Over a year passed before the first attempt was made.(lesson20)
33. It was not until his third match in 1790 that he finally beat Humphries and became Champion of England.(lesson 21)
34. Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end.(lesson 22)
35. Much to the aristocrat’s amusement, the gaoler returned a few moments later with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter which he proceeded to read to the prisoner.(lesson22)
36. People become quite illo

gical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what can nor be eaten.(lesson23)
a) People become very unreasonable when they try to decide whether they should send their children abroad or not.
b) People are becoming more and more rational/smart when they try to decide what they should buy and what they should not.
37. The sad truth is that most of us have been brought up to eat certain food and stick to them all our lives.(lesson 23)
a) The great truth is that the world judges one not by who you are but by what you have.
b) The well-known truth is that love is blind.
38. No creature has received more praise and abuse than the common garden snail.(lesson 23)
a) No one has received more praise and abuse than Chairman Mao.
b) Nothing is more powerful than money/love/advertisement/TV/computer.

39. It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction, but it is really unimaginable in the real world.(lesson24)
a) It is all very well for people to keep pets, but who has the time and money to attend to them.
b) It is all very well for young people to study abroad, but how many families can afford their further education?
40. There is no doubt that if she had not lost her rudder she would have won the race easily. (lesson25)
41. No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements.(lesson26)
a) No one can avoid being moved by Titanic.
b) No one can avoid being affected/influenced by exotic/fascinating TV programmes.
42. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to capture the attention of millions of people.(lesson26)
a) His good English foundation has made it possible for him to gain the excellent academic performance in university.
b) Most of us find it difficult not to laugh at Mr Bean’s funny performances.
43. Though It may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the service which people perform for us.(lesson27)
a)44. There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely the operation.(lesson27)

45. The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop.(lesson27)
46. I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size of the diamonds.(lesson28)
47. the man went great lengths to prove that the diamonds were real.(lesson28)
48. Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.(lesson29)
49. No matter where you live, you would find it difficult not you laugh Charlie Chaplin’s early films.(lesson29)
50. From the moment he arrived there, he kept on pestering his doctor to tell him when would be able to go home.(lesson29)
51. The doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrat

ions were good.(lesson29)
52. Everyone went to the funeral, for the ‘ghost’ was none other than Eric Cox, a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man.(lesson30)
53.They disregard social conventions without being conscious that they are doing anything extraordinary.(lesson31)
54. This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie himself. (lesson 31)
55. It took him 4 years to stage this elaborate joke simply to prove that critics do not always know what they are talking about. (lesson 31)
56. Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found, the contents of the chest proved them wrong. (lesson 32)
57. Nothing of value was found, but the numerous items which were brought to the surface proved to be of great interest.(leson32)
58. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. (lesson 33)
59. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series catastrophes.(lesson 33)
60. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake.(lesson 33)
61. Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.(lesson 34)
62. No one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.(lesson 34)
63. There is always hope that in the shop’s labyrinth of musty, dark ,disordered rooms a real rarity will be found among the piles of assorted junk that litter the floor.(lesson 34)
64. No one discovers a rarity by chance.(lesson 34)
65. Like a scientist bent on making a discovery, he must cherish the hope that one day he will be amply rewarded.(lesson 34)