新东方新概念英语第四册课文讲解31-3

1.Appreciation of sculpture depends upon the ability to respond to form in there dimension.

讲解：depend upon依赖,依靠，与rely on意思相近

例句：The results depend upon how well you do your job.

结果将依你的工作作的多好而定。

the ability to后面的to……是动词不定式做后置定语

2.That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts; certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions.

讲解：That is perhaps why……why引导表语从句

表语从句可以由连接副词引导

The problem is how we can find him. 问题是我们如何找到他。

That was when I was fifteen. 这是我15岁时发生的事。

That’s where I first met her. 那就是我第一次遇见她的地方。

That’s why he didn’t come. 这就是他没有来的缘故。

That’s why I object to the plan. 这就是我反对这个计划的原因。

That’s where you are wrong. 这就是你不对的地方。

3. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensonal distances.

讲解：by means of用, 依靠

例句：The water may be carried by means of a pipe.

水可以用管子输送。

I escaped by means of a secret tunnel.

我通过一条秘密通道逃跑了。

4.He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head-he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand.

讲解：as if好像, 似乎, 仿佛

例句：Why doesn't she buy me a drink?It isn't as if she had no money!

她为什么不给我买一点饮料?好像她没钱似的!

5.He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird.

讲解：apart from除去，撇开…来说(表示除…以外尚有)，此外，加之

例句：Apart from some spelling mistakes, the composition is fairly good.

除了一些拼写错误, 这篇文章写得很不错。

Apart from that, all goes well.

撇开那一点, 一切顺利。

the literary idea that it will become a bird是that引导的同位语从句