新概念英语第二册 Lesson40 Food and talk 讲义

Lesson 40 Food and talk  Text 课文 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Was Mrs. Rumbold a good companion at dinner?      Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress. She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating. I tried to make conversation.      'A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon,' I said. 'Will you be seeing it?'     'No,' she answered.      'Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?' I asked. 'No,' she answered.      'Will you be staying in England?' I asked. 'No,' she answered.      In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.      'Young man,' she answered, 'if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!" New words 生词 hostess ['həustis] n.女主人  unsmiling ['ʌn'smailiŋ] a.不笑的，严肃的  tight [tait] a.紧身的  fix [fiks] v.疑视  globe [gləub] n.地球  despair [di'speə] n.绝望  Grammar focus 语法 1. Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. 在上星期的一次宴会上，女主人安排我坐在兰伯尔德夫人的旁边。 hostess表示女主人，其中ess是一个后缀，表示女性。如： actor男演员，actress女演员； prince王子，princess公主； god上帝，goddess女神。 next to表示挨着。如： We sat next to each other. 我们紧挨着坐在一起。 而beside表示旁边，在距离上比next to远点。如： He sat beside her all night. 整个晚上他都坐在她的旁边。 2. Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress. 兰伯尔德夫人是一位身材高大、表情严肃的女人，穿一件紧身的黑衣服。 unsmiling不笑的，严肃的。其中un是一个否定前缀。如： happy高兴的，unhappy不高兴的； stable稳定的，unstable不稳定的； certain确定的，uncertain不确定的。 句中in a tight black dress表示穿着一件紧身的黑衣服。如： The man in blue is Tom's father. 那个穿蓝色衣服的人是汤姆的父亲。 3. She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her. 当我在她身旁坐下的时候，她甚至连头都没有抬一下。 这是一个由when引导的时间状语从句，主句中look up表示抬头。look up还可以表示查找。如： You can look up this word in the vocabulary. 你可以在词汇表里查这个词。 4. Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating. 她的眼睛盯着自己的盘子，不一会儿就忙着吃起来了。 fix one's eyes on…表示盯着……看。如：