昂立外语【新概念培训】分享sight这个词,让人感觉眼前一亮,在Edgar Allan Poe 的作品The Fall of The House of Usher 中描述主人公Usher的屋子,一起来欣赏吧~
…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.
作者给我们描绘了他看到Usher住宅的第一感受就是一间恐怖阴暗的屋子。在这一段描写中出现高频词汇at the first sight of 一看到。
例句:I faint at the sight of blood. 我见到血就晕。
在我们新二的完美讲义第30课Football or Polo 第一次出现,I turned to look at the children,
but there weren’t any in sight. 词组in sight 在视线内,其反义词组 out of sight 在视线外。
在新二第43课 Over the South Pole 第二次出现词组 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.
不仅如此,sight还可以有另外一个词组搭配:catch sight of 看见 ,在新二第70课 Red for
danger , …but the bull suddenly caught sight of the drunk who was shouting rude
remarks and waving a red cap.
那么让我们来总结一下吧sight有没有其他用法呢?在新二第82课 Monster or fish 中,sight用作动词,It is now known that many of these monsters which have at times been sighted are
simply strange fish. 见到
作为名词,还可以解释为“视力” 和“名胜”。
e.g. My sight is failing, and I can't see to read any more.
我的视力在下降,看不了书了。
e.g. We'd toured the sights of Paris.
我们游览了巴黎的风景名胜。
近义词辨析:
scene, view, sight, scenery, landscape
这些名词均含“景色,风景”之意。
scene: 指具体的、局部的或一时的景色或人的活动,可以是自然形成的,也可人工造成的,可数名词。
view: 普通和词,多指从远处或高处所见的景色。
sight: 侧重指旅游观光的风光,包括城市景色或自然风光景色。也指人造景物或奇特的景色。
scenery: 指一个国家或某一地区的整体自然风景,不可数名词。
landscape: 多指在内陆的自然风光。