The company has clear-cut plans for future expansion 公司对未来的发展有明确的计划 4. But in 1991, under pressure from environmentalists around the world, Brazil reversed course. It ended tax favors that had encouraged clearing of the Amazon rain forest, and agreed to a plan to finance new forest protection projects. (Para. 7) Meaning: However, because environmentalists all over the world put forcible influence on the government of Brazil in 1991, the government changed its pol to the opposite, stopped giving tax cuts which encouraged people to remove the Amazon rain forest, and agreed to a plan to provide money for new forest protection projects reverse course: change one's course of action completely. Here the phrase means that the government of Brazil changed its policies to the opposite tax favor a lower tax as a favor or inducement税收优惠 5. The government promises it will protect the region's native people, but questions remain as to its true level of commitment. (Para. 8) Meaning: Though the government makes a promise to give protection to the native people, the amazon Ind ians who live in the area, people still have doubts about its actual efforts to keep the promise as to: used at the beginning of a sentence in order to introduce a slightly different subject that is still connected to the previous one, similar to "with regard to,as regards","as for", showing what something refers to Asto( doing)that, I haven' t decided yet.关于(做)那件事,我尚未决定。 But more often than not as to is just used to mean"on the subject of concerning,"“ about They should make decisions as to whether the student needs more help 对于这位学生是否需要更多帮助,他们必须作出判断。 ---he is very uncertain as to whether it is the right job for him 关于这个工作是否适合自己,他实在拿不准。 commitment:n. a sure promise that one will do it; something that regularly takes up one's time because of an agreement one has made or because of responsibilities that one has a strong belief in an idea or method -- We made a commitment to keep working together.我们承诺继续一起工作。 ve taken on too many commitments我承担的义务太多了 commit:vt. 1)do sth. wrong, bad, or unlawful - commit crime/ an error/ suicide犯罪/犯错/自杀 ---If you commit a crime you can never escape being punished 2)(to) promise(esp oneself, one's property, etc. )to a certain cause, position, opinion, or course of action You dont have to commit yourself to anything over the phone 你不必在电话里承诺什么 He was too young to commit himself fully to marriage 他太年轻不能完全承担结婚的义务。 主语和谓语的一致 1.集合名词作主语,如表示整体概念则用单数谓语形式;如表示成员则用复数谓 语形式,常见的这部分名词有:army, audience, class. club, committee, company, family, crowd t,Jury, tear7 ---The company has clear-cut plans for future expansion. 公司对未来的发展有明确的计划。 4. But in 1991, under pressure from environmentalists around the world, Brazil reversed course. It ended tax favors that had encouraged clearing of the Amazon rain forest, and agreed to a plan to finance new forest protection projects. (Para. 7) Meaning: However, because environmentalists all over the world put forcible influence on the government of Brazil in 1991, the government changed its policy to the opposite, stopped giving tax cuts which encouraged people to remove the Amazon rain forest, and agreed to a plan to provide money for new forest protection projects. reverse course: change one’s course of action completely. Here the phrase means that the government of Brazil changed its policies to the opposite. tax favor: a lower tax as a favor or inducement 税收优惠 5. The government promises it will protect the region’s native people, but questions remain as to its true level of commitment. (Para. 8) Meaning: Though the government makes a promise to give protection to the native people, the Amazon Indians who live in the area, people still have doubts about its actual efforts to keep the promise. as to: used at the beginning of a sentence in order to introduce a slightly different subject that is still connected to the previous one, similar to “with regard to”, “as regards”, “as for”, showing what something refers to ---As to (doing) that, I haven’t decided yet. 关于 (做) 那件事, 我尚未决定。 But more often than not “as to” is just used to mean “on the subject of”, “concerning”, “about”. ---They should make decisions as to whether the student needs more help. 对于这位学生是否需要更多帮助，他们必须作出判断。 ---He is very uncertain as to whether it is the right job for him. 关于这个工作是否适合自己，他实在拿不准。 commitment: n. a sure promise that one will do it; something that regularly takes up one’s time because of an agreement one has made or because of responsibilities that one has; a strong belief in an idea or method ---We made a commitment to keep working together. 我们承诺继续一起工作。 --- I've taken on too many commitments.我承担的义务太多了。 commit: vt. 1) do sth. wrong, bad, or unlawful ---commit crime / an error / suicide 犯罪 / 犯错 / 自杀 ---If you commit a crime you can never escape being punished. 2) (to) promise (esp.oneself, one’s property, etc.) to a certain cause, position, opinion, or course of action ---You don’t have to commit yourself to anything over the phone. 你不必在电话里承诺什么。 ---He was too young to commit himself fully to marriage. 他太年轻不能完全承担结婚的义务。 Grammar Enrichment: 主语和谓语的一致 1. 集合名词作主语,如表示整体概念则用单数谓语形式; 如表示成员则用复数谓 语形式, 常见的这部分名词有: army, audience, class, club, committee, company, family, crowd, group, government, jury, team