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新概念英语第二册第34课
Lesson34 Quick work破案"神速"
Dan Robinson has been worried all week.Last Tuesday
he received a letter from the local police.In the letter
he was asked to call at the station.Dan wondered why he
was wanted by the police,but he went to the station
yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.At the
station,he was told by a smiling policeman that his
bicycle had been found.Five days ago,the policeman
told him,the bicycle was picked up in a small village four
hundred miles away.It is now being sent to his home by
train.Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.
He was amused too,because he never expected the
bicycle to be found.It was stolen twenty years ago when
Dan was a boy of fifteen!
New words and expressions生词和短语
station n.(警察)局
most
adv.相当,非常
参考译文
丹.鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封
信,要他到警察局去一趟。丹奇怪警察为什么找他,但昨天还是去
了,结果他不再担心了。在警察局里,一位面带笑容的警察告诉他,
他的自行车找到了。那位警察对他说,那辆自行车是5天前在400
英里外的一个小村里发现的,现在正用火车给他运回家来。丹听到
这个消息后,惊奇万分,但又感到非常好笑,因为他从未指望那辆
自行车还能找到。这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走
的!
课文解释
1.Dan Robinson has been worried all week.
丹·鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。
1)worried是个形容词,表示“担心的、焦虑的、发愁的”。
例如:
worried parents
忧心忡神的父母
Don't look so worried!别这么愁眉苦脸的!
She seemed neither surprised nor worried.
她似乎既不惊讶也不担心。
He was worried about the safety of me.他为我的安全担
心。
I was worried(that)she would walk out or bring the
interview to anend.
我担心她会离场或者终止采访。
至于woy可以用作动词(及物或不及物动词),表示“(使)担
心/发愁”等。例如:
Don't worry.别担心。
Nothing seems to worry him.
他好像什么事都不担心。
He worried about it very much.他对此事非常担心。
She appears to be worried by something.
好像有什么事使她发愁。
2)all week是个副词短语。关于all后面接表示时间的单数名
词的用法介绍,大家可参看Lesson7中的相关课文解释。
这句话用现在完成时,强调鲁宾逊先生整个星期都处于焦虑之
中。
2.In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
信中要他到警察局去一趟。
1)这句话中包含有一个一般过去时的被动语态(was asked),
不定式短语to call at the station充当主语he的补足语(即:
主语补足语)。
可能大家会觉得奇怪,以前学的是宾语补足语,怎么这会儿又
冒出个主语补足语了呢?这是因为,当主动语态的句子变为被
动语态后,主动语态中的宾语就变为被动语态中的主语了:因
此原来的宾语补足语就成了主语的补足语了。我们把这句话还
原成下面这个主动语态的句子后大家就明白了:
In the letter the local police asked him to call at the
station.
句中的him(他)在主动语态中充当宾语,不定式短语to cal