新概念英语第三册Lesson 33 A day to remember 课堂笔记

Lesson 33 A day to remember 难忘的一天 1、We have all experienced days (when everything goes wrong.定语从句) A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. （What invariably happens主语从句）is （that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.表语从句） 我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题。 · A day to remember （非谓语动词to remember：要去记住的——作定语修饰A day） · go（系动词）变得 + adj. (贬义) = become · get out of control 失去控制 反：under/in control 受控制 · invariably (adv.) = always 总是，一直 · 一些： a number of +[c] ——a large/great/huge number of + [c] 大量的 some + [c]/[u] —— a small number of +[c] 少量的 · precisely (adv.) 精准地，准确地 precise (adj.) 精准的，准确的 = accurate = exact · To be precise 准确来说 eg. precise detail/ time/ place 准确的细节/时间/地点 很难得到准确的信息。 It is hard to get precise information. 2、It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose （that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.宾语从句） 好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在做饭，同时又在照看孩子。 · as if + 虚拟语气： 好像，仿佛 eg. The boy looks as if he is 30 years old.（错误） The boy looks as if he were 30 years old. （虚拟语气：正确） eg. 这个女孩讲起罗马好像她以前去过一样。 The girl talked about Rome as if she had been there before. · a chain of reactions 一串连琐反应 · suppose eg. She will be there today, I suppose. (= guess猜测, = think认为，觉得) Suppose that the new is true: what then? 假设 You are supposed to pay the bill. 理应做某事 Mr Brown is supposed to have a large circle of friends. (= be said to do 据说) · keep an eye on sth. 留心，留意 · at the same time 同时 = in the meantime = meanwhile 3、The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. （While you are on the phone,时间状语从句） the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. 这时电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布从桌子上扯下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。 · prelude (n.) 序幕、前兆 · the prelude to sth. …的前兆 eg. 几个小公司的破产是经济危机的前兆。 The bankruptcy of some several companies was the prelude to economic crisis. 你应该改掉这个习惯作为减肥的第一步。 You should get rid of the habit as a prelude to losing weight. 4、You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. 你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。 · attend (v.) 出席，参加 eg. attend the meeting/wedding/ceremony · attend to 处理 = deal with eg. 我有一些紧急的生意要处理。 I have some urgent business to attend to. · etc 等等 = so on = so forth · sth. reduce sb. to tears 某物使某人落泪 be close to tears 快要落泪 burst into tears 眼泪夺眶而出 be filled with tears 热泪盈眶 5、Things can go wrong on a big scale, (as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta,方式状语从句) a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. 就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。 · go 变得（系动词） + adj.(消极的或不好的) eg. The milk went bad. 牛奶坏了。 Things go wrong. 事情变糟了。 · scale (n.) 规模，程度，范围 · on a big sacle 大规模，大范围 eg. 污染能引起天气大范围的变化。 The pollutin could cause the weather change on a big scale. 核武器引起了大范围的破坏。 Nuclear weapons caused destruction on a big/global scale. · collide with 碰撞 6、The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. 紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。 · happen to do sth. 碰巧做某事 eg. 我碰巧知道所有的答案。 I happened to know all of the answers. · panic (n./v.) 惊慌，恐慌 · get into a panic 陷入恐慌 eg. 当降落伞打不开时，飞行员陷入了恐慌。 When the parachute didn’t open, the pilot got into a panic. 7、This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. （As she was thrown forward,原因状语从句）the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. 她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃飞了出去掉到马路上。 · 非谓语动词following 作定语，修饰名词driver · make (使役动词) 使，让 · brake (v./n.) 刹车 eg. brake pedal 刹车踏板 · brake to a halt 刹停 eg. The train braked to a halt. · right (adj.) 正确的，右边的 （n.）权利 （adv.）正好 8、Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver （who was drawing up alongside the car,定语从句） pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. 此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。卡车上装着空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶子顺势从卡车后面滑出车外落在马路上。 · 非谓语动词doing作状语 · draw up 停下来（车辆），草拟 · pull up 刹车 · load A with B (A是空间，B是物品) 把B装载在A里 = A is/was loaded with B · slide slid slid 滑动 9、This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. 这又引起一场唇枪舌剑的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆排成了长龙，警察花了将近一个小时才使车辆又开起来。 · lead led led 领导，带领，引领 · lead to = cause(贬) 导致 · pile (n./v.) 堆 · a pile of 一堆 eg. a pile of books/woods/magazines · pile sth. up 把…堆起来 eg. Pile the books up. · pile up 堆积，积累 eg. 她债台高筑，无力偿还。 Her debts are piling up and she can’t pay back the money. 不利于他们的证据越来越多。 Evidence is piling up against them. · the traffic pile up behind 车辆在后面排起长龙 · It takes/took sb. some time to do sth. 某人花…时间做某事 10、In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, （for they greedily devoured [what was left of the cake.原因状语从句/宾语从句）] It was just one of those days! 在这段时间里，卡车司机不得不清扫那几百只破瓶子。只有两只野狗从这一片混乱中得到好处，它们贪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。这就是事事不顺心的那么一天！ · 非谓语动词broken作定语，表被动，修饰名词bottles · benefit (n.) 利益 （v.）受益 · sth. benefits sb. 某物使某人受益 = sb. benefits from sth. 某人从某物中受益 eg. The books benefit the children. = The children benefit from the books. · devour (v.) 狼吞虎咽地吃 eg. The man devoured the sandwich in seconds. Fire devoured a huge area of the forest. Supplementary exercises: · The salesman told me that a good set of tires to last at least 20,000 miles. A. is supposed B. was supposed C.were supposed D. are supposed 解析：正确答案 B 销售人员告诉我说一套好的汽车轮胎至少行走2万英里。 a set of tires 做了that从句的主语，谓语要用单数。 宾语从句的时态要呼应，主句told用了一般过去时态，所以从句用一般过去时态。 3 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$