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英语 必修·第一册[外研版]
Period Ⅲ Developing ideas
Misadventures in English
英语中的事故
Last week, our forum asked if you had any funny or strange stories about using English.
上周,我们的论坛问大家是否有关于使用英语的有趣或奇怪的故事。
We didn't expect to get so many posts!
我们没有想到会收到这么多的帖子!
Here are some of our favourites, to remind us that some of the English we learn in the classroom is rather different from the English in the outside world!
这里有一些我们最喜欢的帖子提醒我们,我们在教室里学习的一些英语与外面世界的英语是相当不同的!
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词句自测
①misadventure n.事故,灾难
②forum n.(因特网上的)论坛,讨论区
③remind v.提醒,使……想起
④rather adv.相当,颇
People say that the British always play safe with what they eat.
人们说英国人总是谨慎对待他们吃的东西。
Not true!
不是真的!
I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie.
我去了在曼彻斯特的一所暑期学校,我的英语老师叫玛吉。
词句自测
⑤“People say that ...”中,that引导宾语从句,在从句中不作成分; what引导宾语从句,且在从句中作宾语。
One day, a different teacher took our class.
一天,另一位老师给我们上课。
He told us that Maggie couldn't teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat.
他告诉我们那天玛吉不能给我们上课,因为有只青蛙在她的喉咙里(实指咽喉痛而说话困难)。
Poor Maggie—but why did she try to eat such a big frog?
可怜的玛吉,但是为什么她试图吃这么大的青蛙呢?
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词句自测
⑥frog n.蛙,青蛙
⑦throat n.喉咙,咽喉
⑧have_a_frog_in_one's_throat (尤因咽喉痛)说话困难
⑨comment n.评论
⑩such a big frog为“such+a/an+adj.+单数可数名词”结构。such除了修饰单数可数名词外,还可以修饰复数名词和不可数名词。
When I first visited New York, I went to a downtown shopping centre to buy some winter boots.
当我第一次去纽约的时候,我去一个市区的购物中心买冬靴。
At the information desk at the entrance, I asked a lady where the shoe section was.
在入口的服务台,我问一位女士鞋子区域在哪里。
She said that it was on the first floor.
她说它在the first floor(地面以上的一层)。
So I went up to the first floor, but couldn't find any shoes.
所以我去了一层the first floor(地面以上的一层),但是没有找到任何鞋子。
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I decided to leave.
我决定离开。
When I was looking for the exit, I saw that shoes were actually sold downstairs on the ground floor, not the first floor.
当我在找出口的时候,我看到鞋子实际上是在楼下的the ground floor(地面一层)卖的,而不是在the first floor(地面以上的一层)。
Why did she give me the w