迷你对话学地道口语第363期:亲眼所见

　　第一、迷你对话
A: I heard several people were killed in the car accident.
我听说那场车祸中死了好几个人。
B: Twelve, to be exact.
确切地说是12个。
A: How do you know it clearly?
你怎么知道这么清楚？
B: I was walking along the road that day. So it happened under my very eyes.
那天我正好走在街上，亲眼看到的。
第二、对话精讲
1.地道表达
地道短语】under one’s very eyes
解词释义】very在这里是个强调词，相同于same或identical，所以under one’s every eyes的意思就是“亲眼所见”。
支持范例-1】They stole the jewels under my very eyes.
他们就在我眼皮底下偷走了珠宝。
支持范例-2】I was standing¹ by the side of the road, so the accident happened under my very eyes.
我当时正站在马路边，事故就发生在我的眼前。
2.词海拾贝
to be exact：具体地说
例句-1】It happened late last century in 1895, to be exact.
事情发生在上个世纪末--准确地说, 在1895年.
例句-2】He is, to be exact, sixteen years old, and is not old enough to join the army.
确切地说，他才十六岁，还没达到参军的年龄。
walk along：沿着......行走
例句-1】We felt exhilarated by our walk along the beach.
我们沿着海滩散步感到心旷神怡。
例句-2】I take a walk along the bank every morning.
我每天早晨在岸上散步。
in the accident：在事故中
例句-1】He was seriously injured² in the accident and died several days later.
他在那次事故中受了重伤,几天后就死了。
例句-2】He lost the use of both legs in the accident.
他在事故中双腿丧失了功能。

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 injured   

adj.受伤的

参考例句：

• Our best defender is injured and won't be able to play today.我们最佳的防守员受伤了，今天不能参加比赛。
• The injured men have been dug out of the snow.受伤人员从雪中被挖了出来。