PETS二级考试语法复习精讲（93）
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She's got a really useful right foot.
John: My sister's really keen on soccer.
Eric: Really, what team does she support?
John: She doesn't support any in particular. When I say keen, I mean she's an enthusiastic player. She plays for a local women's team.
Eric: Is she any good？
John: Well, she's scored ten goals so far this season. She's got a really useful right foot.
Eric: Well if that's the case, you really must take me to see her play sometime.
约翰：我妹妹是个足球迷。
艾利克：是吗？她支持哪一队？
约翰：她并不支持某一队。我说'迷'，是指她热衷于踢足球。她是本地一支女子足球队成员。
艾利克：她踢得好吗？
艾利克：果然如此，你得找个时间和我去看她比赛。
约翰说：My sister's really keen on soccer.Keen即'热衷的'，但约翰的妹妹是热衷于看足球还是踢足球，这句话可没说清楚。清楚一点的说法是：My sister is a keen soccer player/a keen soccer spectator（我妹妹很喜欢踢足球/看足球）。
Spectator是'观者'；有大量观众的运动，英文就叫spectator sport，例如：Basketball is one of the most popular spectator sports in the US（篮球在美国是最受观众欢迎的运动之一）。留意keen字之后，一般用on带出名词或动名词 （gerund），即所喜欢的事物。有时，也会用about，例如：（1） He isn't very keen on/about selling the house（他对于卖房子兴趣缺缺）。（2） I can see that Tom is keen on/about my sister（我看得出汤姆很喜欢我妹妹）。说人足球踢得好，英文一句常用语是He has got a useful right foot（他的右脚很有用）。例如：You may not agree that Beckham has got a useful right foot, but he has earned hundreds of millions of dollars as a soccer player（你也许不认为贝克汉的足球技术了得，但他当足球运动员，赚钱以亿元计）。你还可用其它形容词说足球运动员的右脚，例如：（1） He is probably the man with the best right foot in the game（这场比赛之中，他也许是踢球技术最高妙的球员）。（2） With a gifted right foot, you should play professional soccer（你有踢球天赋，应该参加职业足球赛）。Gift（礼物）可以引申解作'天赋'.[NextPage] You should use the fill-in flash.
Ian: I'm a bit disappointed with some of my vacation snaps.
Bob: They mostly look fine to me.
Ian: But on these where I photographed my friends against the sun, their
faces are quite dark. You can't really see them clearly.
Bob: Ah, in those kind of conditions you should use the fill-in flash setting on your camera.
Ian: What will that do?
Bob: It will make their faces lighter so that you can see them better when the sun's behind them.
奕恩：我对假期拍的一些生活照不太满意。
巴布：我看大部分都不错啊。
奕恩：但请看这几张，我拍时，朋友背向着太阳，结果面孔颇为阴暗，实在看不清楚。
巴布：啊，在这样的情况下，你应该用照相机的补充闪光装置。
奕恩：这有什么用处？
巴布：闪光装置会使面孔看起来光亮一点，这样，太阳在你的朋友背后，他们的样子也会清楚些。
太阳下拍照往往不容易：面向阳光，眼睛会不由自主瞇起来；背向阳光，面孔光线不足；正午太阳当头，则眼眶和鼻子、嘴巴的阴影很不美观。用一般闪光灯（flash），可以凭其强光清除阴影，但照片看来会不自然，所以最好用较柔和的补充闪光（fill-in flash）: If you don't want your subject（拍摄对象）to squint（瞇着眼睛）in the sun, or to have dark eye sockets（眼窝）and shadows under the nose and lips, you may shoot（拍摄）him against the sun using fill-in flash.
Flash除了指'闪光灯'，还可解作'闪光'.有些人不用补充闪光灯，而用反光板，那英文叫做reflector，例如：As more light was needed on her face, we sent for a reflector（她脸部要多点光，我们于是叫人拿块反光板来）。奕恩拍照没有用补充闪光灯或反光板，拍出来的照片就不称心：I'm a bit disappointed with some of my vacation snaps.Snap作动词，本来是'迅速抓住'的意思，例如：I snapped at the chance of working with such a brilliant scientist（有机会和这样出色的科学家合作，我当然不会放过）。用照相机，可以抓住事物一时的神态，所以snap常引申解作'拍照'，例如：I snapped my son while he was happily eating ice cream（我趁儿子快快活活吃冰淇淋的时候，帮他拍了照片）。作名词，snap或snapshot即'快照'、'便照'，例如：I took a snap of the volcanic eruption（我拍了火山爆发的照片）。
