Lesson 71 A famous clock
When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down !
ˈlɛsən 71 ə ˈfeɪməs klɑk
wɛn jʊ ˈvɪzət ˈlʌndən, wʌn əv ðə fɜrst θɪŋz jʊ wɪl si əz bɪg bɛn, ðə ˈfeɪməs klɑk wɪʧ kən bi hɜrd ɔl ˈoʊvər ðə wɜrld ɑn ðəbi.bi.si.
ɪf ðə ˈhaʊsəz əv ˈpɑrləmənt həd nɑt bɪn bɜrnd daʊn ɪn 1834, ðə greɪt klɑk wəd ˈnɛvər həv bɪn ɪˈrɛktəd.
bɪg bɛn teɪks ɪtsneɪm frəm sɜr ˈbɛnʤəmən hɔl hu wəz riˈspɑnsəbəl fər ðə ˈmeɪkɪŋ əv ðə klɑk wɛn ðə nu ˈhaʊsəz əv ˈpɑrləmənt wər ˈbiɪŋ bɪlt.
ɪtəz nɑt ˈoʊnli əv ɪˈmɛns saɪz, bət əz ɛkˈstrimli ˈækjərət əz wɛl.
əˈfɪʃəlz frəm ˈgrɛnɪʧ əbˈzɜrvəˌtɔri həv ðə klɑk ʧɛkt twaɪs ə deɪ.
ɑn ðə bi.bi.si. jʊ kən hir ðə klɑk wɛn ɪt əz ˈækʧuəli ˈstraɪkɪŋ bɪˈkəz ˈmaɪkroʊˌfoʊnz ər kəˈnɛktəd tə ðə klɑk ˈtaʊər.
bɪg bɛn həz ˈrɛrli gɔn rɔŋ.
wʌns, ˌhaʊˈɛvər, ɪt feɪld tə gɪv ðə kəˈrɛkt taɪm.
ə ˈpeɪntər hu həd bɪn ˈwɜrkɪŋ ɑn ðə ˈtaʊər hʌŋ ə pɑt əv peɪnt ɑn wʌn əvðə hændz ənd sloʊd ɪt daʊn !
任务配置：
L0+L4
知识笔记：
1. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected.
如果不是国会大厦在1834年被焚毁的话，这座大钟永远也不会建造。
erect
verb [VN] (formal)
1. to build sth
• 建立；建造:
»The church was erected in 1582.
此教堂建于1582 年。
--› note at build
2. to put sth in position and make it stand vertical
• 竖立；搭起
【SYN】put sth up:
»Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back.
警察得设立路障来阻截人群。
»to erect a tent
搭帐篷
--› note at build
3. to create or establish sth
• 创立；设立:
»to erect trade barriers
设置贸易壁垒
2. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well.
此钟不仅外形巨大，而且走时也非常准确。
immense
adj.
• extremely large or great
• 极大的；巨大的
【SYN】enormous:
»There is still an immense amount of work to be done.
还有非常非常多的工作没有做。
»The benefits are immense.
效益是极大的。
»a project of immense importance
极其重要的工程
Immense means very large in size, amount, or degree. You might describe the ocean as immense, or your homework load, or the slice of cake your brother took, leaving you a tiny sliver.
This word has an immense number of near synonyms: huge, great, enormous, vast, gigantic, colossal, mammoth, copious, tremendous are a few of the more common ones. If you're having immense difficulty deciding which word to use, just plain "very big" might do.
也可以用sea of something: a large amount of sth that stretches over a wide area 大量；茫茫一片
He looked down at the sea of smiling faces before him. 他看着眼前这笑脸的海洋。
造个句：sometimes I felt I got immense housework to do and there is still more coming which makes me frustrated.
3. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower.
当大钟大点的时候，你可以从英国广播公司的广播中听到，因为钟塔了接了麦克风。
strike在文中的意思：
■When a clock strikes, its bells ring to show what the time is（时钟）敲，鸣，报时
•The clock was striking ten as we went into the church.我们走进教堂时响起了十点的报时钟声。
intransitive(struck,struck)
■When a particular time strikes, a clock's bells ring to tell people what time it is（时间）鸣报
•Midnight had just struck when I went upstairs to bed.我上楼睡觉时，时钟刚刚敲过午夜12点。
At its most basic, strike means to hit. If you strike someone, you hit them with your hand or a weapon. If lightning strikes, it makes contact. If you strike out on a trip, you're "hitting" the road. If you strike gold, you've "struck it rich"!
Strike can also mean not to hit, as in miss –– as in "three strikes and you're out." That meaning might have evolved from strike meaning to cross off, as in "If you don't come to practice, coach will strike your name from the starting lineup." It might also have led to the idea of a labor strike. If employees want to protest their work conditions, they go on strike, or refuse to work until conditions improve.
造个句：i'm hoping one day the luck would strike me.
(NAmE) ~ (against sb / sth) a bad thing or action that damages sb / sth's reputation• (有损声誉的)不利因素,打击:
»The amount of fuel that this car uses is a big strike against it. 耗油量大是这辆车的一大缺点。
（我的车也有这个问题，so，所以以后可以用英语描述我的车子啦~~）
4. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong.
If you almost never do something, you can say you do it rarely. If you walk or bike to work most days, you could say that you rarely take the bus.
Something that happens rarely happens only once in a while, or seldom. You might sigh that your town's baseball team rarely wins a game, or boast that you rarely forget a person's name once you've been introduced. The word comes from the adjective rare, "not occurring often," or "unusual," from the Old French rere, "sparse," and its root, the Latin word rarus, "thinly sown, with intervals between, or full of empty spaces."
5. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down ！
hang：
When you hang something, you dangle or suspend it. You can hang a piñata from a tree, hang a picture on the wall, or hang a wind chime on your porch.
People hang all kinds of things: washing on a clothesline, a rope swing over a lake, or a shower curtain in the bathroom. An artist also hangs an art show — meaning she installs it in a gallery or museum, and maybe literally hangs paintings on the wall. If your mouth hangs open, it gapes, and when fog hangs in the air, it rests there, suspended. Informally, you can "get the hang" of something, or figure it out through practice.
hand：
Your hand is the appendage with fingers at the end of your arm. When you clap your hands, you loudly smack their palms together to express your appreciation and enthusiasm.
Human hands have 27 bones, as well as extremely dextrous thumbs that make it possible for us to do things that very few animals can do. Your hands enable you to pick up small things, hold a baby, pet a cat, speak in American Sign Language, chop vegetables for a salad, and many other things. When you clap, you give someone a hand, or applaud them — and another way to lend a hand is to help someone out.
»She was on (her) hands and knees (= crawling on the floor) looking for an earring. 她正趴在地板上到处寻找耳环。
to be dealt a good / bad hand
拿到一手好牌/坏牌
[sing.] ~ in sth the part or role that sb / sth plays in a particular situation; sb's influence in a situation
• 角色；作用；影响:
»Early reports suggest the hand of rebel forces in the bombings.
早期的报道暗示叛乱武装插手了爆炸案。
»Several of his colleagueshad a hand in his downfall.
他的几位同事对他的下台起了作用。
»This appointment was an attempt tostrengthen her hand in policy discussions.
这次任命旨在加强她在政策讨论中的作用。
练习感悟：
1. 看到hand好激动，查阅了好多遍的，但是要真的使用自如还有很长一段路要走，心累。想了想，除了minute hand, hour hand，还有green hand，give me a hand，还有什么呢？还有其他身体器官有什么可以学习的呢？比如leg，break a leg, 眼睛呢？the apple of the eye, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, 跟眼睛相关的词还有呢？eyelash, eyebrow, eyeball,在查词过程中想了想，observe也是跟“眼睛”“看”相关的词语吧。还有“鼻子”的相关词语，nostril, don't pick up your nose。还有耳朵，be all ears, play it by ear等等。其它的还有 the Adam's apple等等。其实昨天的文章中的caught sight of也是跟眼睛有关的吧。那么，如何整理这些词汇，让他们能够在一块，以后能够随时随地查阅，最好都记在大脑里，想象有一个电子屏在眼前，然后点一个词，比如eye，然后“砰”一声，所有相关的词汇都出现在面前，每一个相关点都可以在打开，随意提取，不能更棒！今天听广播，关于snow的相关词汇跟用法，有flurry, blizzard, sleet, snowflake, be snowed under, as pure as the driven snow. 所以，接下来要开始学习：单词从头学。
2. strike的词典释义，眼花缭乱，上回查过，这回再查，还是被震撼到。好多好多。。。还有hang，睡眠不足的后果是，看着这么多的单词在我面前跳舞，抓不住。。。
3. 听写的时候，听到了turn a blind eye，yeah~~
4. 今天的朗读中午才开始，我不是很喜欢数自己读了多少遍，我也不喜欢计时，读好了就是读好了，没读好就继续，每天花了多少时间我也没记录，但是最近我会在规定时间内完成，比如早上12点之前，或者下午4点20之前，尽量不在中午或者晚上。不过今天只能中午开始了，吃完午饭后读了几遍，中间有两遍还不错，但是有几个音听着不喜欢，就没发出去，此刻很后悔，要是发出去了就不用再练习了。（偷懒心态，最近常有，自己听得出哪儿读得不够好的，也想着就这样发出去好了）
5.最近听力笔记懈怠了，还有上周就应该完成的实战听写，想想就觉着头大，好多，可是上周我居然看了两场电影，真是。完全忘记了实战听写这回事儿了。
6.越读越差是怎么回事儿？一遍不如一遍，舌头都打结了，感觉越来越接近原声的感觉了，然后又松口气懈掉了。不能在晚上读，会焦虑，娃儿老等我睡了才睡。
7.老公生日给忘记了，不应该不应该。
