2017年9月公共英語三級閱讀指導（5）

　　第五部份：Dialogues/monologues:

　　I am passionate about English, and the challenge of expressing English fluently and swimmingly withforeigners was the principal motivation.

　　1、...having been brought up in the countryside.

　　2、Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into thefirst part of the morning.

　　翻譯為：那些強勁的大風卷起一層云彩，還有些零星的小雨下了好一會，一直持續(xù)到清晨。

　　3、clearer skies and much light winds allowed temperatures to drop well into single figures resulting in a touch of grand frost in some rural areas.

　　翻譯為：清涼的天空和微風讓溫度值降到了個位數(shù),使得很多鄉(xiāng)村地區(qū)出現(xiàn)了霜.

　　4、The early sunshine giving away to a bit more clouds.

　　注意的詞語：give away：讓步。

　　翻譯為：太陽被一小片云層遮住了。

　　5、There was something of a drier interlude before an active weather system moved in from the west.

　　6、Some of the more exposed locations saw sustained winds of 40mph with gusts of 58mph.