Unit 3 Seeing is Understanding
view hindsight mud wide blinkers short-sighted eye-opener sight • 1. If your eyes are very open they are____ open. • 2. Something which is very surprising is often called an ______. • 3. ______is when you understand something in the past because of new things you have learned. • 4. To make horses go in a straight line without looking to either side, they are fitted with _____so that they can only see straight ahead.
• 1. Why do you want me to complain? I can’t _____. • 2. I thought I’d ___, but I still ended up with the mushroom pizza when I ordered the ham and mushroom. • 3. Try to see the situation___ I simply can’t afford to spend &1,000 on a holiday. • 4. Jane and Fred are both in their forties so they’re going into marriage with their____.
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1.At Heathrow planes______ and land every minute. 2.Do you think there will ever be a _____between southern Spain and North Africa? 3.The road up to hero house has no surface and in the middle of winter it gets full of_____. 4.It’s really difficult finding the way to her house. She lives in the country, five miles from the nearest town, down a lane off the main road, and then up a little____ past an old ruined church. 5.When you get to the___ , take the road to the left, heading for Oxford.
• 1. I can never understand his explanations, can you? • > No. They’re_____. • ( as mud as clear) • 2.So I think we should keep the womenonly policy. • > Isn’t that a _____? • ( view short-sighted very)
• 1. Why doesn’t Steve ever listen to other people’s point of view? • 2.Did you see the way Simon spoke to his wife? • 3. Not you again! What do You want? • 4. We should never have bought this car. It’s been nothing but trouble. • 5. Oh, so you didn’t know that Jill got the job because her dad knows the Director. • 6. These instructions are incomprehensible. • A. Yes. It was a real eye-opener, wasn’t it? I never knew he could get so angry! • B. It’s easy to say that with hindsight. • C. Because he’s blinkered, that’s why. • D. Ah! Now I get the picture. • E . Let me have a look. Yes, I see what you mean. • F. I want to clear up the misunderstanding we had earlier.
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dead-end fooe the days of diesel and electric trains, there was only_____. • 7.A train came off the___ just outside York station and 3people were killed. • 8. Sh! Listen! Can’t you hear the sound of ____ outside? • 9.The police caught the 15-year-old boy who stole my car when he drove up a street which turned out to be a____. • 10. When we were small, we used to take a ___over the fields to school, but now they’ve built a housing estate on the farm.
• 5. Management are giving the smokers their own room. • > At last. They’ve _____. • (the seen light) • 6.What exactly does he want us to do? • > I don’t know. Ask him again____. • ( it’s very not clear) • 7. So you add these figures to those and that’s how you get this total. • > Ah, now_____. • (what I mean you see)
view hindsight mud wide blinkers short-sighted eye-opener sight • 5. Very wet earth is called_____. • 6. _____people cannot see things which are far away. • 7. If something disappears along a road, eventually you lose____ of it. • 8.You usually get a good ____ of the surrounding countryside from the top of a hill.
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be blinkered心胸狭窄的 心胸狭窄的 clear up 澄清（误会等） 澄清（误会等） as clear as mud 很不清楚的 make oneself clear 把自己的意思讲清楚 with one’s eyes wide open 充分了解自己所做的事 through one’s eyes 以某人的眼光（看某事） 以某人的眼光（看某事） eye-opener 令人开眼界的或令人惊奇的事物 get the picture 明白；理解 明白； hindsight 事后的认识；事后聪明 事后的认识； see the light 同意，领会 同意， see through sb 看穿或看透某人 see reason 明白事理；接受劝告 明白事理； see the point 理解某人的意思；明白要点 理解某人的意思； can’t see past the end of one’s nose 目光短浅 lose sight of sb/ sth 忘记或忽略某事 某人 忘记或忽略某事/某人 open one’s eyes 使某人看清 …；长见识 ； one’s point of view某人的观点或看法 某人的观点或看法
a. see past the end of his nose b. made myself perfectly clear c. opened your eyes d. saw through e. through my eyes f. saw reason g. eyes wide open h. see the point
a. see past the end of his nose b. made myself perfectly clear c. opened your eyes d. saw through e. through my eyes f. saw reason g. eyes wide open h. see the point
• 3. There are so many possibilities. We could also develop a new – • > Stop. Slow down. Don’t ____ our aims. • (lose of sight) • 4. Don’t worry. It’s not really a problem. • > Well, it is _______. • (my from view point of)