Phrases and Expressions
1.to watch over 看守，照管，監(jiān)視
2.in unison 完全一致地
3.to call up 1.打電話；2.使想起，使憶起
Porper Names
Huntsville 亨茨緯爾
Alabama 阿拉巴馬
Clare Bolderson 克萊爾。博爾德森
Georgia 佐治亞
Don Claxton 唐?？巳R克斯頓
Alvin Bronstein 阿爾文。布朗斯坦
Arkansas 阿肯色
重點(diǎn)詞匯精講：
1.deny ： 否認(rèn)，否定
用法：deny 后要加動名詞作賓語
Neil denies breaking the window， but I‘m sure he did. 內(nèi)爾否認(rèn)打破了窗戶，但我肯定是他干的。
2.degrade ： v. 降級，貶低
派生詞：grade n. 等級，級別
de- 是前綴表示 “reduce， remove， down， showing an opposite”的意思。
相關(guān)詞匯構(gòu)詞法： code - decode ； value - devalue ； form - deform ； merit - demerit；
3.ineffective： 無效的
反義詞：effective a. 有效的；
II.課文分析
Eyewitnesses say is was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s. As the sun rose over the fields of Huntsville， Alabama， in the American South， the convicts got down from the trucks that had brought them there. Watched over by guards with guns ，they raised their legs in unison and made their way to the edge of the highway， Interstate 65. The BBC‘s Washington correspondent Clare Bolderson was there and she sent this report：
1.chain gang 用鐵鏈拴在一起勞動的囚犯隊(duì)
2.Eyewitnesses say it was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s.
目擊者說這仿佛是直接取自20世紀(jì)50年代黑白電影的一幕。
句中賓語從句省略了引導(dǎo)詞that . straight為副詞，意為“直接地”
3.Watched over by guards with guns， they raised their legs in unison and made their way to the edge of the highway， Interstate 65. 他們在荷槍實(shí)彈的警衛(wèi)的看守下，步伐一致地邁動雙腿，向著65號州際公路路邊走去。
watched over 為過去分詞短語作伴隨狀語。
make one‘s way to 去往，朝…走去
the highway，interstate 65 （美國）65號州際公路
“They wore white uniforms with the words ‘Chain Gang’ on their backs and ，in groups of five， were shackled together in leg irons joined by an eight-foot chain. The prisoners will work for up to 90 days on the gang： they‘ll clear ditches of weeds and mend fences along Alabama’s main roads. While they are working on the sang， they‘ll also live in some of the harshest prison conditions in the United States. There’ll be no televisions or phone calls； many other day-to-day privileges will be denied.”
The authorities in Alabama say there is a lot of support for the re-introduction of chain gangs in the State after a gap of 30 years （the last gangs were abolished in Georgia in the early 1960s）。 Many people believe it is an effective may to get criminals to pay back their debt to society.
1.to watch over 看守，照管，監(jiān)視
2.in unison 完全一致地
3.to call up 1.打電話；2.使想起，使憶起
Porper Names
Huntsville 亨茨緯爾
Alabama 阿拉巴馬
Clare Bolderson 克萊爾。博爾德森
Georgia 佐治亞
Don Claxton 唐?？巳R克斯頓
Alvin Bronstein 阿爾文。布朗斯坦
Arkansas 阿肯色
重點(diǎn)詞匯精講：
1.deny ： 否認(rèn)，否定
用法：deny 后要加動名詞作賓語
Neil denies breaking the window， but I‘m sure he did. 內(nèi)爾否認(rèn)打破了窗戶，但我肯定是他干的。
2.degrade ： v. 降級，貶低
派生詞：grade n. 等級，級別
de- 是前綴表示 “reduce， remove， down， showing an opposite”的意思。
相關(guān)詞匯構(gòu)詞法： code - decode ； value - devalue ； form - deform ； merit - demerit；
3.ineffective： 無效的
反義詞：effective a. 有效的；
II.課文分析
Eyewitnesses say is was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s. As the sun rose over the fields of Huntsville， Alabama， in the American South， the convicts got down from the trucks that had brought them there. Watched over by guards with guns ，they raised their legs in unison and made their way to the edge of the highway， Interstate 65. The BBC‘s Washington correspondent Clare Bolderson was there and she sent this report：
1.chain gang 用鐵鏈拴在一起勞動的囚犯隊(duì)
2.Eyewitnesses say it was a scene straight out of a black and white movie from the 1950s.
目擊者說這仿佛是直接取自20世紀(jì)50年代黑白電影的一幕。
句中賓語從句省略了引導(dǎo)詞that . straight為副詞，意為“直接地”
3.Watched over by guards with guns， they raised their legs in unison and made their way to the edge of the highway， Interstate 65. 他們在荷槍實(shí)彈的警衛(wèi)的看守下，步伐一致地邁動雙腿，向著65號州際公路路邊走去。
watched over 為過去分詞短語作伴隨狀語。
make one‘s way to 去往，朝…走去
the highway，interstate 65 （美國）65號州際公路
“They wore white uniforms with the words ‘Chain Gang’ on their backs and ，in groups of five， were shackled together in leg irons joined by an eight-foot chain. The prisoners will work for up to 90 days on the gang： they‘ll clear ditches of weeds and mend fences along Alabama’s main roads. While they are working on the sang， they‘ll also live in some of the harshest prison conditions in the United States. There’ll be no televisions or phone calls； many other day-to-day privileges will be denied.”
The authorities in Alabama say there is a lot of support for the re-introduction of chain gangs in the State after a gap of 30 years （the last gangs were abolished in Georgia in the early 1960s）。 Many people believe it is an effective may to get criminals to pay back their debt to society.