昂立外語【新概念培訓】分享sight這個詞,讓人感覺眼前一亮,在Edgar Allan Poe 的作品The Fall of The House of Usher 中描述主人公Usher的屋子,一起來欣賞吧~
…the melancholy House of Usher, insufferable gloom pervading the heart at the first
sight of the house, the bleak walls ,the vacant eye-like windows, a few rank sedges ,
decayed trees ,an utter depression of soul, an unredeemed dreariness of thought which
no goadig of the imagination could torture into any of the sublime.
作者給我們描繪了他看到Usher住宅的第一感受就是一間恐怖陰暗的屋子。在這一段描寫中出現高頻詞匯at the first sight of 一看到。
例句:I faint at the sight of blood. 我見到血就暈。
在我們新二的完美講義第30課Football or Polo 第一次出現,I turned to look at the children,
but there weren’t any in sight. 詞組in sight 在視線內,其反義詞組 out of sight 在視線外。
在新二第43課 Over the South Pole 第二次出現詞組 in sight。Byrd now knew that he would
be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away, for there were no more
mountains in sight.
不僅如此,sight還可以有另外一個詞組搭配:catch sight of 看見 ,在新二第70課 Red for
danger , …but the bull suddenly caught sight of the drunk who was shouting rude
remarks and waving a red cap.
那么讓我們來總結一下吧sight有沒有其他用法呢?在新二第82課 Monster or fish 中,sight用作動詞,It is now known that many of these monsters which have at times been sighted are
simply strange fish. 見到
作為名詞,還可以解釋為“視力” 和“名勝”。
e.g. My sight is failing, and I can't see to read any more.
我的視力在下降,看不了書了。
e.g. We'd toured the sights of Paris.
我們游覽了巴黎的風景名勝。
近義詞辨析:
scene, view, sight, scenery, landscape
這些名詞均含“景色,風景”之意。
scene: 指具體的、局部的或一時的景色或人的活動,可以是自然形成的,也可人工造成的,可數名詞。
view: 普通和詞,多指從遠處或高處所見的景色。
sight: 側重指旅游觀光的風光,包括城市景色或自然風光景色。也指人造景物或奇特的景色。
scenery: 指一個國家或某一地區的整體自然風景,不可數名詞。
landscape: 多指在內陸的自然風光。