Unit 3 the land down under
Words and Expressions:
1. fellow n. 人;家伙
Who's that old fellow? 那个老家伙是谁?
同伴;同事
We were schoolfellows. 我们曾经是同学。
2.claim
vt (根据权利)要求,认领,索赔
Did you claim on the insurance after your car accident?
你的车子出事之后,要求领保险金了吗?
I claimed the coat that the teacher found. 我认领了老师找到的外套。
Did you claim on the insurance after your house fire?
你家失火后你要求保险公司赔偿了吗?
声言;自称;主张
He claimed that he hadn't done it, but I didn't believe him.
他声称没有做这件事,可是我不相信他。
Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea.
渔夫和水手有时声称看到过海里的妖怪。
His claim about the number of people killed in the spring forest fire was evidently overstated. 他所说的春天森林大火中的死亡人数显然是夸张了的。
He claims that he has got one of the two earliest British stamps but nobody believes
him. "他自称得到了英国两张最早的邮票中的其中一张,但是无人相信。"