高中英语选修9教案： Unit 2 witnessing time -project1

Unit 2 Witnessing time

●Project

1. The Ming and Qing Imperial Tombs are among the most impressive cultural remains to be found anywhere. 明清皇家陵寝是世界上最令人赞叹的文化遗产之一。(page 30, lines 1-2)

1) among

among preposition (ALSO amongst)

a. in the middle of or surrounded by other things: (表位置) 在…中间,在…内部，被…所环绕

I saw a few familiar faces among the crowd.

Rescue teams searched among the wreckage for survivors.

b. happening as part of a group of people or things:(表范围、关系)在…内部，在…中间

a decision that has caused a lot of anger among women

Relax, you're amongst friends.

Talk about it among yourselves (= Talk to each other about it without me) for a while.

She has worked as an estate agent among other things(= as well as other things).

2) remain

remain verb

1) [I or L] SLIGHTLY FORMAL to stay in the same place or in the same condition: 停留，留下，逗留; 尚待…留待…;仍然，依然

The doctor ordered him to remain in bed for a few days.

Most commentators expect the basic rate of tax to remain at 25%.

[+ to infinitive] A great many things remain to be done (= have not yet been done).

He remained silent.

It remains a secret.

The bank will remain open while renovations are carried out.

2) [I] to continue to exist when other parts or other things no longer exist: 剩余 ,残存

After the flood, nothing remained of the village.

Only a few hundred of these animals remain today.

the remainder noun [S] 剩余,残存之物/人，其他的人们

the part of something that is left after the other parts have gone, been used, or been taken away:

I ate most of it and gave the remainder to the dog.

It rained the first day but the remainder of the trip was lovely. remainder noun [U] SPECIALIZED 余数

in mathematics, the amount that is left when one number cannot be exactly divided by another:

9 divided by 4 is 2, remainder 1.

remaining adjective [before noun] 剩下的

continuing to exist or be left after other parts or things have been used or taken away:

Bernstein's two remaining lectures will take place on January 22 and 23. Mix in half the butter and keep the remaining 50g for later

remains plural noun剩余,残留物;余额

1) pieces or parts of something which continue to exist when most of it has been used, destroyed or taken away:

The remains of lunch were still on the table.

We visited the remains of a 12th-century monastery.

2) FORMAL human/sb's remains someone's dead body or the remaining parts of it:

Fifty years after he died, his remains were returned to his homeland. Human remains were found in the woods.