1.blood
Basic Needs
形 名词无复数形式;及物动词常用被动态： -ed[-did]
义 Everyday Expressions
◆ n. 血
John’s shirt is stained with blood. 约翰的衬衫上沾有血迹。
take a blood sample 取血样
◆ n. 血统，家世
He is a French by blood. 他是个有法国血统的人。
◆ n. 怒火;脾气
Mike committed the murder in cold blood.
Mike一时冲动杀了人。
衍生词语
◆ bloody 血腥的 英国悝语：该死的，受诅咒的，非常，多
◆ bloodless 冷血的
◆ bleed v. 流血
复合词语
◆ blood bank 血库
◆ blood vessel 血管
◆ blood bath 大屠杀
◆ blood donor 献血者
◆ blood test 验血
Linguistic Skill
常见搭配 Useful Phrases◆ 抽血 --- to pump blood
◆ 亲兄弟 --- blood brother
◆ 血腥钱 --- blood money
◆ 血型 --- blood type
◆ 冷血/热血动物 --- cold-blooded / warm-blooded animal
◆ 验血 --- blood test
◆ 吸血鬼 --- blood sucker
◆ 输血 --- blood transfusion
◆ 亲骨肉 --- one’s own flesh and blood
◆ 献血 --- to donate blood
◆ 使……极度惊恐 --- to freeze one’s blood
◆ 对……的死负责 --- to have one’s blood on one’s hands
习语与俗语 Idioms & Slang
◆ blood runs cold / blood freezes / blood turns to ice --- 心惊胆寒
◆ in sb’s blood --- 生来就有的
◆ blood and iron --- 军事威力 (德国陴斯麦的铁血政策)
◆ to sweat blood --- 累死累活地干
Communicating Clearly
生活用语 Street Talks
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A: I’ll never race cars! It’s too risky!
B: No Andy, believe me. Once you’ve tasted blood, you’ll be hooked.
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I sweated blood to put you through college, and you treat me like a stranger. You are cold -blooded!
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The doctor gave me a chest X-ray and took my blood pressure.
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A: Do you know your blood type?
B: Yes, It’s A-positive.
Cultural Focus
电影对白 Transcripts
句型
◆ We could go down and get our blood tests tomorrow. 《毕业生》
对话
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Ben: Tomorrow then--can we get our blood tests tomorrow morning?
Elaine: Why don’t you just drag me off if you want to marry me so much?《毕业生》
谚语 Proverbs
◆ It’s the mind that ennobles, not the blood.
使人崇高的是心灵而不是血统。
◆ Blood is thicker than water.
血浓于水;近客不如远亲。
◆ Blood will have blood.
血债要用血来还;杀人者偿命。
名言 Quotations
◆ The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
Alice Meynell (1847-1922), English poet, essayist. Essays,"The True Colour of Life” (1914).