内容正文:
Don't trouble trouble,
until trouble troubles you.
不要自找麻烦,除非麻烦找上门。
Lesson 92
Asking for trouble
Vocabulary
名词
形容词
副词
fast
ladder
tone
shed
sarcastic
fast adv. 熟睡地
词组:sb. be fast asleep
当老师让她回答问题时,她睡得正熟。
When the teacher asked her to answer a question,
she was fast asleep.
ladder n. 梯子,阶梯
The only ladder to be successful is to work hard.
成功的唯一途径是努力工作。
shed n. 棚子
词组:bicycle shed 自行车棚
派生:shed vt. 流出,落下,蜕下
She shed crocodile[ˈkrɒkədaɪl] tears when she fired him.
当她开除他时,她流下了鳄鱼的眼泪。
sarcastic adj. 讽刺的
sarcastic remarks 讽刺的话语
派生:sarcasm[ˈsɑːkæzəm] n. 讽刺
tone n. 语气,语调
结构:sb. do sth. in a(n) adj. + tone
他带着不耐烦的语气说话。
He speaks in an impatient tone.
1.He could feel their____________(讥笑的) tone about his poor work.
2.He left his bicycle in the ______________(棚子) and entered the house.
3.Hard work is often a ______________(梯子) to success.
4.He was so tired that he fell____________(熟睡) asleep immediately.
listening
Why did the policeman ask the writer to come to the police station?
Because the policeman thought the writer was a burglar.
Reading
1. The policeman ____
(a) believed the writer was going to clean the windows
(b) suspected that the writer was a thief
(c) arrested the writer
(d) interrupted the writer when he was busy working
2. None of this would have happened if the writer______
(a) hadn't been rude
(b) hadn't fallen off the ladder
(c) had remembered his key
(d) hadn't shouted at the policeman
It must have been about two in the morning
when I returned home.
I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell,
but she was fast asleep,
so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden,
put it against the wall,
and began climbing towards the bedroom window.
It must have been about two in the morning when I returned home.
语法:
sb. / sth. must have done sth.表示对过去事实的肯定推测
你昨晚肯定哭了。
You must have cried last night.
I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the door-bell,
结构:try to do sth. by doing sth.
通过某方式尽力做成某事
他跑得很快,试图赶上公交车。
He tried to catch the bus by running