She’s always the first to arrive and the last to leave.
You’re the best person to advise me about buying a house.
你是我买房子的最好顾问。
the only后必须接一个名词或one(s)： You’re the only person/one to depend on.
Lesson 72 A car called bluebird
“蓝鸟”汽车
New words
racing
n. 竞赛
per
prep. 每
Utah
n. 犹他（美国州名）
horsepower n. 马力
burst
v. 爆裂
average adj. 平均的
footstep
n. 足迹
racing n. 竞赛
specially
adv. 特别地，专门地
I came here specially to see you.
我特地到这儿来看你。
4.It was over 30 feet in length and had a 2,500-horsepower engine.
30 feet in length 30英尺长 in width in height in depth 这口井有20米深。 This well is 20 meters in depth.
a racing car a racing driver a racing club 赛马俱乐部
race n. 比赛，竞争 a car race 赛车比赛
per prep. 每
Tom earns 3000 yuan per moner cent 100 per cent 55%
day. 每天平均有两个学生缺席。
The average of 3, 8 and 10 is 7.
above/below average 均水平
高于/低于平
on average
平均来看
She receives 20 calls a day on average.
平均来看，她每天接到二十个电话。
2. He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.
set up a record = create a record
创造纪录
3. Bluebird, the car he was driving, had been specially built for him.
5.Although Campbell reached a speed of over 304 miles per hour, he had great difficulty in controlling the car because a tyre burst during the first run.
百分之…
Utah n. 犹他（美国州名）
Salt Lake City
horsepower n. 马力
功率单位；1马力等于每秒钟把75公斤重的 物体提高1米所作的功
burst v. 爆裂
1. vi. 爆炸，爆裂 My bike tire burst during the break. A number of balloons burst during a festival.
attempt
n. 尝试
the first run
开始的行程
The next run is forty miles.
下一段赛程为40英里。
6. After his attempt, Campbell was disappointed to learn that his average speed had been 299 miles per hour.
步某人后尘，
效仿某人，继承某人的事业
He intends to follow in his father’s footsteps and to become a lawyer.
课文解析
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1. The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour.
per表示“每一，每”，通常用于商业及技 术用语，日常用语大多用a/an：
You can stay at the hotel at $10 per person per night.
You must have been driving at seventy miles an/per hour.
2. v. 突然打开 While I was watching TV, the door burst open
but there was nobody.
burst out
突然爆发
burst out cheers
burst out laughing
burst into 突然闯入 A stranger burst into our classroom.
average adj. 平均的
The average age of the boys in this class is fifteen.
这个班级中男生的平均年龄为十五岁。
adj. 一般的，普通的 an average man
n. 平均，平均数 An average of two students are absent each
American people on average are taller than Japanese people.
美国人平均来看要比日本人高。
footstep n. 足迹
Armstrong left his footstep on the moon.
follow in one’s footsteps