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外研社版高中英语新教材必修一Unit 2课文文本和翻译
Neither Pine nor Apple in Pineapple
菠萝≠松树+苹果
Have you ever asked yourself why people often have trouble learning English? I hadn’t, until one day my five-year-old son asked me whether there was ham in a hamburger. There isn’t. This made me realize that there’s no egg in eggplant either. Neither is there pine nor apple in pineapple. This got me thinking how English can be a crazy language to learn.
你有没有问过自己,为什么人们常常在学习英语方面有困难?我从未想过这个问题,直到有一天,我五岁的儿子问我hamburger(汉堡包)里是否有ham(火腿)。答案是没有。这让我意识到eggplant(茄子)里也没有egg(鸡蛋)。pineapple(菠萝)里既没有pine(松树),也没有apple(苹果)。这让我陷入思考:对于学习者而言,英语到底可以有多疯狂呢?
For example, in our free time we can sculpt a sculpture and paint a painting, but we take a photo. And when we are traveling we say that we are in the car or the taxi, but on the train or bus! While we’re doing all this traveling, we can get seasick at sea, airsick in the air and carsick in a car, but we don’t get homesick when we get back home. And speaking of home, why aren’t homework