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【问】在最新版本的普通高中英语教科书第一册92页有这样一句话：
At that time, I watched the disaster from a ship on the bay.Out at sea it was calm.
丁丁老师，您讲讲这个out吧！
【答】你注意到了这个小词out，这很好！我们学习语言，一定要注意它的某些细微之处，所谓见微知著吧！教材上的这个out非常的authentic。词组at sea指在大海上，前面加上这个out，起加强的作用，表示“远远地”，从语法上讲去掉它没有问题，表意上也没有打多大的折扣，但是有了这个out，英语味全出了！我们来看更多例句：
[1] Out where there is no air, this phenomenon does not take place. (85年人教版高二198页)在那遥远没有空气的地方，不发生这种现象。
[2] Usually at the beginning of school, the noise of desks being opened and closed, and lessons repeated at the top of the children’s voices could be heard out in the street. (85年人教版高二165页)平常在开始上课时，在街上就可以听得见书桌的开关声音和孩子们高声念书的声音。
[3]Father is out in the garden. (薄冰英语语法指南847页)父亲在园子那边。
[4] There was one day when we were out in the bay during a hunt and James was washed off the boat. (04人教新课标选修七20页)有一天,我们出海捕鲸的时候,詹姆斯被冲下水去了。
[5] “Look, there’s a shark out there,” I screamed. (04人教新课标选修七21页)我尖叫起来,“瞧,那边有一条鲨鱼。”
[6] I regret that you should have left him out in the cold. (傅阆寰英语结构词176页)我觉得很遗憾，你竟会不理睬他。
[7] Thieves are hiding out in a cabin in the woods. (赵振才英语常见问题解答大辞典596页)小偷们藏在森林中的小木屋里。