ities.
现在报纸上能刊登照片,这使名人成为名流,他们的衣着、外貌和体态举止都成为人们评论的对象。
Turn…into…:to cause sth./sb.to become…使——成为;把——变成
Her bitter experience has turned her into a strong woman. 痛苦的经历使她成了一个坚强的女人。
The mobile medical team turned an old temple into a first-aid station.流动医疗队把一座古庙改造成了急救站。
Comment on/upon:to give/express opinions about评论;议论
The U.S.2000 presidential election has been much commented upon.
2000年美国的总统选举招致了不少的议论。
I don't think it right to comment on people's private affairs. 我觉得议论别人的私事是不对的。
26.Slowly,the focus of public attention began to shift away from knowing what such people did to knowing what they looked like.公众的注意力逐渐由了解这些人做了些什么转移到了了解他们长得是什么样子。
Shift(away)from…to…:to change in emphasis,direction or focus:转移
When the wind shifted from south to north,it began to get cold. 风向由南转北,天气变冷了。
In the early 1960s,the emphasis of our country's economy shifted from heavy industry to light industry and agriculture.20世纪60年代初期,我国经济的重点工业转向轻工业和农业。
look like:to have the appearance of看起来像
The restaurant looks like a ship. 这家餐馆的外形像条船。
From the way they treat each other they look like sisters. 她们亲昵的样子看起来像是姐儿俩。
like 常与其他表示感官功能(如视觉、触觉、味觉、听觉等look like;feel like;smell like;sound like)的动词连用。
In the middle of the night we were woken up by some noise.It sounded like a fight.
半夜里我们被吵醒了,听起来像是吵架的声音。
The dish sells like fish,but tastes like beef. 这道菜闻起来像鱼,尝起来像牛肉。
The material feels like silk. 这块料子摸起来像丝绸。
27.With the arrival of television…
Because we now have television…由于电视的出现
with:because of having
With a large family to support,he cannot afford a new coat this year
由于有一大家人要养活,他今年不能给自己买新大衣了。。
With John away,we've got more room.
由于约翰不在,我们的地方显得更宽敞。
With all the homework to do,I cannot go out this weekend.
有这么多作业要做,这个周末我不能出去了
28.…than we did about most of the people we know personally.
…than we know about most of the people we actually know.
29.Less than seventy years after the appearance of the first moving pictures,the shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship was complete.
第一部电影问世后不到70年,英雄崇拜就彻底转变成名人崇拜了。
电影起源于19世纪末,人们传统上认为1899年是电影诞生之年,此句的意思是在20世纪60年代末人们崇拜对象的转变就完成了。
moving picture 的其他名称为:picture,motion picture,film,movie等。