There are three main groups of oils: animal, vegetable and mineral.( |' O; M" X& P6 i$ i' y
Great numbers of animal oil come from whales, those enormous __1__ creatures of the sea which are the largest remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick cover of fat called blubber. When the __2__ whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either board the ship or on shore. It produces a great quantity of oil which __3__ can be made into food for human consumption. A few other creatures yield oil, and none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and __4__ the halibut, two kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil.& A4 p/ A% P9 P
Both cod liver oil and halibut liver oil are given to sick children and other invalids who need certain vitamins. These oils may be
7 G6 `, W$ x5 W# E" e: r! f bought at any chemist. Vegetable oil has been known from antiquity. __5__ No household can not get on without it, for it is used in cooking. To __6__ the ordinary man, one kind of oil may be as important as another.
2 j# T* g- h( o( v) V: ]5 B But when the politician or the engineer refers to oil, one almost always __7__ means mineral oil, the oil that drives tanks, aeroplanes and warships,motor-cars and diesel locomotives; the oil that is used to lubricate all kinds of machineries. This is the oil that has changed the life __8__ of the common men. To it we owe the existence of the motor-car, __9__ which has replaced the private horse-drawing carriage. __10__
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1.numbers改为quantities.animal oil 是不可数名词,不能用number of 来修饰。可以修饰不可数名词的限定词有:a bit of,a large amount of,a great deal of,a lot of,plenty of,a large quantity of。
( h5 @5 w6 W6 B0 u 2.cover改为covering.cover和covering虽然都是名词,意思却不一样。前者是“封面,盖子”,后者是“遮盖物,覆盖物”,可以说蓝鲸的脂肪是它防寒的遮盖物,而不能说是“盖子”。
4 u* p# Y8 m/ y- K' R: P% C 3.board前面加on.board可以作为名词和介词on连用表示“在(船,飞机,车)上”,如:on board the ship 就是“在船上”。
# A$ o" z+ }3 t8 d: Q* r% r 4.and改成but.前后两个分句是转折的关系。* c, }! w& f5 ~4 C/ |( t
5.chemist改为chemists.文中要表达的是“在药店”,那么应该“介词+名词属格”表示地点。所以应该是at any chemist’s.% P, k, R0 E) ^: J
6.去掉not 7.one改为he/he or she.代词的先行此是politician和engineer,这是一类通性名词,既可以是男性也可以是女性,这类名词以单数形式表示类指时,通常用相应的阳性代词he,有时也用he or she。) T. `' {9 \& D1 ~" u
8.machineries改为machinery/machines.machinery是不可数的集体名词,没有复数形式。5 \2 g/ M8 Y( ?4 u' Q$ V$ y
9.men改为man或者the(common men)的the去掉.the common man 是类指,既然有定冠词,那么应该用man的单数形式,或者保留复数men而去掉定冠词。* ^' D9 d; x/ Q
10.horse-drawing改为horse-drawn.“用马拉的车”,draw和carriage是被动关系。 |