课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.One good turn deserves another,(标题)礼尚往来。
(1)名词turn的含义之一是“(帮助或损害他人的)举动”、“行为”:
Yesterday George did me a good/ an ill turn.
乔治昨天做了一件对我有利/不利的事。
He is alw ...[详细]
课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.A friendly waiter taught me a few words of Italian. 一位好客的服务员教了我几句意大利语。
(1)虽然friendly是以-ly结尾,在拼法上与许多副词一样,但它却是形容词:
He always greets me in a friendly way.
他 ...[详细]
课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.Last week I went to the theatre.上星期我去看戏。
(1)句首的“Last week”点明叙述的事情发生的时间是上星期。因此整篇课文的时态基本上应是过去时(包括过去进行时),直接引语部分的时态除外。
(2)动词go的原义是离开一个地方去另一个地方,与介词to连用后,常加上主语所要 ...[详细]
Lesson 5 Youth
第五课青年
by FIELDEN HUGHES
from Out of the Air, The Listener
5-1. People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
【译文】人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。
5-2. If there is one—which ...[详细]
4-6. Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special comm ...[详细]
Lesson 4 Seeing hands
第四课 能看东西的手
by ERIC DE MAUNY
from The Listener
4-1. Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, ...[详细]
3-8. Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.
【译文】
当地的那些小旅馆一般都 ...[详细]
3-4. It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner with would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, bu ...[详细]
Lesson 3 Matterhorn man
第三课马特霍恩山区人
by WALTER UNSWORTH
from Matterhorn Man
3-1. Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult ...[详细]
课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me. 秘书告诉我说哈姆斯沃斯先生要见我。
would 在这里不是表示单纯的过去将来时,而是表示“想……”、“要……”的意思:
What would you like to have?
你想要吃(喝)什 ...[详细]