Section 9 Explaining 解释

我们在生活中常常会遇到一些复杂或者难以理解的事情，需要做出解释。解释有常见的句型和词汇。

在电影《梦幻国王》（Joseph King of Dreams）里，一位国王常做一个相同的梦，无人能解释其梦的含义。这时，作为奴隶的Joseph被带到了国王面前，因为他说他能解梦。

常用句型

By something I mean… 我所说的……指的是……

It means that he was innocent. 也就是说他是清白的。

I managed to explain away his doubts. 我的解释终于消除了他的怀疑。

That is to say… 也就是说……

Let me add some few words in explanation．让我再补充几句说明。

疯狂操练

Task 1　Now watch a video for the first time and answer questions 1～2.

1. What is true about Pharaoh?

A) Pharaoh has done what he can to be healthy.

B) Pharaoh has seen the most wretched in the world.

C) Pharaoh makes a terrible dream once in a while.

D) Pharaoh makes the same terrible dream every night.

2. Where do the seven sickly cows come from according to the dream?

A) The fields near the Nile.

B) The river Nile.

C) The forest across the Nile.

D) The woods on the banks.

Task 2　Now watch the video twice and fill in the blanks numbered 1～5 with the words or phrases you have just heard.

Pharaoh: Yes. Another dream always follows. Seven ears of grain, full and golden, 1)__________a single stalk. Suddenly, seven ears, hardened and scorched, ears 2)__________on the same stalk and swallow the seven good ears. 3)__________are shriveled grains unfit to eat and nothing else. Well?

Joseph: Pharaoh' s dreams are one. The healthy cows and ears of grain are 4)__________abundance. The sickly cows and the withered grain mean seven years of famine will follow and 5)__________. Egypt may not survive.

听力原文

Joseph: Tell me your dream, Pharaoh.

Pharaoh: Every night it' s the same. I am standing by the Nile. Seven healthy cows graze peacefully on the banks. But then seven horrible sickly cows come from the same river, the most wretched I have ever seen in Egypt. Suddenly they begin to devour the healthy cattle. And yet the cows remain as sickly as before. And then I wake up.

Joseph: Is there more?

Pharaoh: Yes. Another dream always follows. Seven ears of grain, full and golden, grow from a single stalk. Suddenly, seven ears, hardened and scorched, ears spring up on the same stalk and swallow the seven good ears. All that remains are shriveled grains unfit to eat and nothing else. Well?

Joseph: Pharaoh' dreams are one. The healthy cows and ears of grain are seven years of abundance. The sickly cows and the withered grain mean seven years of famine will follow and destroy the land. Egypt may not survive.