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课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.What's Ron Marston like, Pauline? 波琳,朗·马斯顿是怎样一个人?
What is sb. like? 这一句式可用来询问某人的外貌或品行。就本课的具体情况而言,波琳的回答更多地是指马斯顿的品行如何。
2.He telephoned me four times yesterday…他昨天给我打了4次电话……
four times, 4次。 time在英语中作不可数名词时表示“时间”;作可数名词时表示“次数”。请注意英语中次数的表示法:
once 1次 twice 两次 three times 3次
3次或 3次以上通常都用基数词 times表示: five times 5次 thirty times 30次
3. the day before yesterday, 前天。
4.answer the telephone, 接电话。
口语中也常用 answer the phone。类似的短语如:answer the door/doorbell 应声开门 answer a letter回信
5.She can't speak to you now! 她现在不能同你讲话!
speak to sb. 意为“与某人说话”。例如打电话时可以说:
May I speak to Pauline, please? 请让波琳接电话好吗?
I' d like to speak to Pauline, please. 我想请波琳听电话。
6.This is Pauline's mother. 我是波琳的母亲。
This is…是英美人打电话时表示“我是……”的句式,而不说 I'm…。相关的电话用语如:
This is Mary speaking. 我是玛丽。
This is Edward calling from London. 我是爱德华,现正在伦敦给你打电话。
语法 Grammar in use
一般过去时(2) (请参见 Lessons 67~68语法部分。)
be动词以外的动词在一般过去时中一般有两种形式。规则动词一般是在动词后面加-ed,如 answered;以-e结尾的规则动词加-d,如 telephoned, arrived。另一部分动词的过去式拼写不规则,因此称为不规则动词,如:say----said, do----did。
用一般过去时的句子中常常有表示过去某一时刻的时间状语,如本课中的 yesterday(昨天),the day before yesterday(前天),yesterday morning(昨天上午),yesterday afternoon(昨天下午),yesterday evening(昨天晚上),last night(昨夜)。
词汇学习 Word study
answer
(1)v. 对……作出反应;响应:
Who answered the telephone? 谁接的电话?
Mary took a few minutes to answer the door. 玛丽拖了几分钟时间才去开门。
(2)v. 回答;答复:
I don't think you've answered my question. 我认为你没有回答我的问题。
I wrote him several letters but couldn't get an answer. 我给他写了好几封信,可都没有回音。
(3)n. 答案;解决办法:
Do you know the answer to Question 10? 你知道第10题的答案吗?
This is one of the possible answers to today's environmental problems. 这是有可能解决当今环境问题的办法之一。
练习答案 Key to written exercises
Lesson 72
A
1 It is raining now. It rained yesterday.
2 It is snowing now. It snowed yesterday.
3 He is boiling some eggs. He boiled some yesterday.
4 We are enjoying our lunch. We enjoyed it yesterday, too.
B
1 What did they do yesterday? They cleaned their shoes yesterday.
2 What did he do last night? He opened the box last night.
3 What did they do this morning? They sharpened their pencils this morning.
4 What did she do this evening? She turned on the television this evening.
5 What did she do last night? She listened to the radio last night.
6 What did she do yesterday morning? She boiled an egg yesterday morning.
7 What did they do yesterday afternoon? They played a game yesterday afternoon.
8 What did he do in the morning the day before yesterday? He stayed in bed in the morning the day before yesterday.
9 What did she do yesterday evening? She telephoned her husband yesterday evening.
10 What did she do the night before last? She called the doctor the night before last.