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新概念英语第二册
Lesson 25
Do the English speak English?
Railway
n.铁路(BrE) = railroad(AmE)
表示道路的单词:highway,freeway,expressway,motorway
highway:公路
motorway(BrE) = freeway(AmE) :高速公路(主要指城市与城市之间的)
express:除了v.表达以外,还可以用作adj,表示快速的、特快的
e.g. express service:快递服务
EMS
express mail service
expressway快速通道(主要指城市内的,例如高架桥)
rail:n.扶手,栏杆,围栏
出轨:Jump the rail
楼梯的扶手 :
stair rails
ride the rails
逃火车票
火车站
railway station
BrE AmE
火车站 railway station train station
地铁站 underground/tube station subway station
加油站 petrol station gas station
Porter:n.(火车站等)行李搬运工
旅客、俱乐部的服务员
bellboy (AmE) /pageboy(BrE)
Several :adj.
① more than three but fewer than many. 修饰可数名字复数
e.g.I repeated my questions several times.
② 各自的
Several men,several minds.人各有志
foreigner:n.外国人
e.g. a blue-eyed foreigner 蓝眼睛外国人
entertain foreigners 款待外国人
foreign:adj.
①外国的,海外的
外国留学生:foreign students
洋货:foreign goods
外交事务:foreign affairs
外交政策:foreign policy
②陌生的
e.g. The subject is foreign to us.
Adj.+er→n.
strange→stanger
foreign→foreigner
light→lighter(打火机)
wonder
n.奇观
世界七大奇观:the seven great wonders in the world
What a wonder!多么奇妙
It’s a wonder that he survived the plane crash.
短语:No/little wonder
No wonder that ……=It’s no wonder that……
e.g.She’s jumping the rail.No wonder her husband dumped her.
A wonder lasts but nine days . 奇闻只存在九天
→a nine-day wonder:一时的轰动却很容易被人忘却
e.g. As a pop star she is a nine-days wonder: she only made one successful record .
v.觉得奇怪,不明白
① +at sth
e.g.She wonders at her own stupidity.
② +从句(从句用陈述句的语序)
e.g. I’m wondering what I should do.
I wonder who he is.
礼貌地提问或请求别人做某事
e.g. I’m wondering whether I could ask you out.
I’m wondering if you could help me.
Wonderful:adj.奇妙的,精彩的,极好的
e.g.I would be a wonderful wife.
About the title:
Do the English speak English?
English:n.英语,英国人,英格兰人
adj. 英国的,英格兰的
the English: