4-Four-Seeing hands

  ①Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.

（1）detect  辨别

（2）perceive 发现    deceive 欺骗     conceive 怀孕 

（3）bundles 捆

（4）分隔句：避免头重脚轻

    --Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls.做cases的定语，这里of是“关于”的意思

    --While I was waiting to enter university,I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. 做saw的宾语  

（5）并列句：who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. 做perceive

（6）a locked safe   safe--保险柜

（7）lock ... away  将 ...锁起来

（8）lock up 给...上锁

（9）lock onto sth  追踪...

（10）do up  捆，包；装修

 (11)I am really thirsty,I could do with a drink.(喝)

 (12)The government did away with free milk for schoolchildren in the 1970s.（取消，废除)

 (13)I hear the new owners plan to do up that old place.(装修)

（14）You'll have to do without sugar in your coffee. I forgot to buy some more.(设法不用...来应付)

（15）He cheated me! He did me out of my share of the money.(do sb. out of sth.骗走)

 

 

②Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

（1）bring to the notice of ... 引起某人注意

（2）commission 委员会

（3）Ministry 部

（4）Federal Republic 联邦共和国

（5）opaque 不透明的，难懂的

（6）elbow 肘部

（7）slipper 拖鞋

（8）carpet 地毯

（9） knees 膝盖

（10）blindfold 看不见

（11）talent 表示人才是单数；

              表示才能的话，单数表示一种才能，复数表示多种才能

（12）stranger still 更为奇怪的是

（13）方式状语by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it;

（14）in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers,to make out （with her foot） the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet 

      wearing stockings and slippers作状语，修饰to make out;wearing前省略了When she was,to make out ... to前省略了she was able

      make out=perceive分辨

      with her foot 方式状语放前来强调

 (15)某些时间状语从句中，如果谓语动词是be,主语又与主句的主语一致或是it，就常常可以把从句中的主语及be省略。 

  --During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed,except when(she was) blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin,其中except when blindfold 的when后面省略了she was

  --Michael Jackson was fond of singing when (he was)yet a child.

  --I got acquainted with him while (I was) on a visit to New York.

 (16)the moment (when)her hands were wet. the moment有“一...就”的意思

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