1、Since high school, my sister Wang Wei and I——Wang Kun, had dreamed about taking
a great bike trip.
从高中起，我姐姐王薇和我——王坤就一直想作一次自行车旅行。
dream of/about doing sth 梦想做某事
①It’s a small town. You can never dream of doing shopping after 5 o’clock in
the evening.
那是个小镇，每天下午五点钟以后你别想逛商店。
②The girl always dreams of becoming a teacher like her mother.
这个女孩总是梦想像妈妈一样当个教师。
2、It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River from where
it begins to where it ends.
首先想到要沿湄公河从源头到终点骑车旅游的是我的姐姐。
It was … who/that …是个强调句型，用来强调句子中除谓语之外的各种成分，以引
起听者或读者的注意，强调句型的完整结构是：
It is/was+被强调部分+who/that+句中原有其它部分。指人是常用who，也可以用that，
指物或值时间、地点等时用that。
①It was Jack who often helped us learn English last year.
是杰克去年经常帮助我们学英语。
②It was last year that Jack often helped us learn English.（此处that不能换
为when）
是去年，杰克经常帮助我们学英语。
3、Then she persuaded me to buy one.
然后她还说服了我也买了一辆（山地车）。
persuade … to do=persuade … into doing 说服某人做某事
persuade … not to do=persuade … out of doing 说服某人不要做某事
①I advised him to give up smoking, but I couldn’t persuade him（to do so）.
我劝他把烟戒掉，说服不了他。
②Many advertisements try to persuade people into buying their products.
很多广告设法说服人们购买他们的产品。
4、Although she didn‘t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that
we find the source of the river and begin our journey there.
虽然她对某些地方的最佳路线并不清楚，她却坚持我们要找到河的源头并从那里开始我
们的行程。
insist后面的从句中常用虚拟语气，从句的谓语由should+动词原形构成，其中should
可以省略。
①My parents insisted that I（should）learn medicine instead of law.
我的父母坚持要我学医，不要学法律。
②Zhang Hua insisted that we（should）start at once.
张华坚持要我们马上出发。
中学英语中类似的常用动词有10个，都是《课程标准》要求掌握的词汇，可用一、二、
三、四的方法来记。这些动词简称为：一个“坚持”，两个“命令”，三个“建议”，四个
“要求”，它们是：
1 insist
2 order/command
3 suggest/advise/recommend
4 require/request/demand/desire
5、She gave me a determined look——the kind that said she wouldn‘t change her mind.
给了我一个就坚定的眼神——这种眼神表明她是不会改变主意的。
determined是形容词，由动词determine变化而来，意为“坚定的，坚决的”，be
determined to do sth的意思是“决定干某事”。
①Her mother is a determined woman who always gets what she wants.
他母亲是一个坚定的女人，她总能达到自己的目的。
②They are determined to send up another man-made satellite.
他们决定发射另一颗人造卫星。
相关链接：
“作出决定”的多种表达法
1 decide to do sth=2 make a decision to do sth
3 determine to do sth=determine on/upon sth=be determined to do sth
4 make up one’s mind to do sth
6、Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it.
她一旦下了决心，什么也不能使她改变。
once作副词时，有“一次”、“曾经”等意思，此处是作连词，连接条件状语从句，意为
“一旦”。
①Once you’ve made up your mind, you must go on.
一旦你下定决心，就必须坚持下去。
②Once you show fear, he will attack you.
你一旦显出害怕，他就会攻击你。
7、To climb the mountain road was hard work but to go down the hills was great fun.
上山很艰难，而下山却很好玩。
此句中的动词不定式短语to climb the mountain road和to go down the hills都是
作主语，一定要注意。
造飞机比造火车难得多。
误：Make a plane is much more difficult than make a train.
正：To make a plane is much more difficult than to make a train.