There are but two things that chiefly
excite us to love woman, an attractive beauty and unspotted fame.
------ Cervantes (a Spanish writer)
主要引起我们对女人爱恋的只有两样东西:一是诱人的美貌,二是清白的名声。
------ 塞万提斯(西班牙作家)
Learn the following by heart背诵下列知识点:
1.but adv.only只有;仅仅。如:
I don't think we'll manage it. Still, we can but try.
我想我们应付不了这事。但不妨试试。
There were a lot of famous people there: Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, to name but two.
那里有很多名人:只提两个名字吧,有汤姆•汉克斯和茱莉婭•罗伯茨。
2.that chiefly excite us to love woman是定语从句,that是关系代词,代替先行词things,在从句中做主语。
3.chiefly adv. mainly 主要地;首要地。如:
He has traveled widely, chiefly in Africa and Asia.
他游历了许多地方,主要在非洲和亚洲。
4.beauty n. beautiful的名词,意为:美;美丽;美人;美好的东西。
5.unspotted adj.没有污点的,这个词的词根是spot,加了前缀un-和后缀-ed。
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