裕興新概念英語(yǔ)第二冊(cè)筆記-第25課

Lesson25DotheEnglishspeakEnglish?英國(guó)人講的是英語(yǔ)嗎？Whydoesthewriternotunderstandtheporter?IarrivedinLondonatlast.Therailwaystationwasbig,blackanddark.Ididnotknowthewaytomyhotel,soIaskedaporter.InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butveryclearlyaswell.Theporter,however,couldnotunderstandme.Irepeatedmyquestionseveraltimesandatlastheunderstood.heansweredme,buthespokeneitherslowlynorclearly.'Iamaforeigner,'Isaid.Thenhespokeslowly,butIcouldnotunderstandhim.MyteacherneverspokeEnglishlikethat!TheporterandIlookedateachotherandsmiled.ThenhesaidsomethingandIunderstoodit.'You'llsoonlearnEnglish!'hesaid.Iwonder.InEngland,eachpersonspeaksadifferentlanguage.TheEnglishunderstandeachother,butIdon'tunderstandthem!DotheyspeakEnglish?參考譯文我終于到了倫敦?；疖囌竞艽?，又黑又暗。我不知道去飯店的路該怎么走，于是向一個(gè)搬運(yùn)工打聽。我的英語(yǔ)講得不但非常認(rèn)真，而且咬字也非常清楚。然而搬運(yùn)工卻不明白我的話。我把問(wèn)話重復(fù)了很多遍。他終于聽懂了。他回答了，但他講得既不慢也不清楚。“我是個(gè)外國(guó)人，”我說(shuō)。于是他說(shuō)得慢了，可我還是聽不懂。我的老師從來(lái)不那樣講英語(yǔ)！我和搬運(yùn)工相視一笑。接著，他說(shuō)了點(diǎn)什么，這回我聽懂了?！澳鷷?huì)很快學(xué)會(huì)英語(yǔ)的！”他說(shuō)。我感到奇怪。在英國(guó)，人們各自說(shuō)著一種不同的語(yǔ)言。英國(guó)人之間相互聽得懂，可我卻不懂他們的話！他們說(shuō)的是英語(yǔ)嗎？【Newwordsandexpressions】（5）1railway['reilwei]n.鐵路2porter['p?:t?]n.搬運(yùn)工3several['sev?r?l]幾個(gè)4foreigner['f?rin?]n.外國(guó)人5wonder ['w?nd?]v.感到奇怪一．單詞講解：railway

n.鐵路，鐵道[U](Br.)/railroad

(Am.)alineofrailway一條鐵路railwaystation火車站railway

n.軌道(pl.)[C]eg.Therailwaywasopenedtotrafficlastyear.這條鐵路是去年通車的。highlevelrailway高架鐵路表示“地鐵”的詞匯：subway['s?bwei](Am.)tube[tju:b](Br.)underground

(Br.)metro

['metr?u](Paris)地鐵rail

n.橫桿，扶手，圍欄，軌道jumprail出軌stairrails樓梯扶手ridetherails逃票乘火車sitontherails

(Am.)騎墻，保持中立railing

n.欄桿iron-barrailing鐵欄桿porter

n.搬運(yùn)工，腳夫（在車站，機(jī)場(chǎng)，旅館等處的）bellboy/pageboy

(Am.)旅館，俱樂(lè)部等通常穿制服的男服務(wù)員port

n.港，口岸clearaport

出港closeaport

封港reachaport/enteraport

入港eg.Manyshipsfrequenttheport.許多船只常來(lái)此港。eg.Anyportinastorm.慌不擇路，窮途之策。（諺）several1)morethanthreebutfewerthanmany

一些，幾個(gè)eg.Severalmorepeoplethanusualcametotheconcert.來(lái)音樂(lè)會(huì)的人比平常多了幾個(gè)。eg.Irepeatedmyquestionsseveraltimes.我把問(wèn)題重復(fù)了幾遍。2)各自的，各個(gè)的（文）eg.Severalmen,severalminds.人各有志；10個(gè)人有10個(gè)樣。（諺）foreigner

n.外國(guó)人ablue-eyedforeigner一個(gè)藍(lán)眼睛的外國(guó)人entertainforeigners款待外賓entertain[,ent?'tein]vt.&vi.款待,招待foreign

['f?rin]adj.外國(guó)的，無(wú)關(guān)的，陌生的foreignlanguageforeigngoods外國(guó)貨foreignstudents留學(xué)生foreignaffairs外交事務(wù)foreignpolicy外交政策foreigntrade外貿(mào)eg.Thequestionisforeigntothematterinhand.這問(wèn)題與處理中的事情無(wú)關(guān)。eg.Thesubjectisforeigntous.我們對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題很陌生。overseas/oversea

adj.在海外的，來(lái)自海外的，僑居海外的overseastrade海外貿(mào)易adv.在海外，來(lái)自海外gooverseas到海外去，adj.+er→n.2)Irepeatedmyquestionseveraltimes.Atlastheunderstood.(and)我把問(wèn)題重復(fù)了幾遍，最后他懂得了。—Irepeatmyquestionseveraltimesandatlastheunderstood.3)IspokeEnglishverycarefully.Ispokeveryclearly.我講英語(yǔ)非常小心，我講英語(yǔ)非常清楚。>IspokeEnglishnotonlyverycarefullybutveryclearlyaswell.4)Heansweredme.Hedidnotspeakslowly.Hedidnotspeakclearly.(but...neither...nor)他回答我了，他講話既不慢也不清楚。>Heansweredmebuthespokeneitherslowlynorclearly.5)Iknockedatthedoor.Hedidn'topenit.(but)我敲了門，他不開。一>Iknockedatthedoorbuthedidn'topenit.6)Hewentonholiday.Iwentonholiday.(both...and)他去度假了。我去度假了。>Bothheand工wentonholiday.他和我都去度假了。7)Hemustbemad.Hemustbeverywise.(either...or)他一定是瘋了。他一定是聰明的。一>Hemustbeeithermadorverywise.他或者是瘋了，或者是聰明的。三、課文講解TextIarrivedinLondonatlast.(arrivein到達(dá)（大地方）arriveat到達(dá)（小地方）gettoreach

vt.到達(dá)atlast終于，到底（強(qiáng)調(diào)努力的結(jié)果）eg.Atlast,hesucceededinbusiness.終于，他生意上成功了。intheend表示一種結(jié)局，結(jié)果eg.Wetalkedandtalkedaboutwheretogo,butstayedathomeintheend.我們不停地討論去哪兒，但結(jié)果還是呆在家里。finally通常用于句首，次序上的最后firstly,secondly,finally

首先，其次，最后eg.Finally,hethankedthemandtookhisleave.首先他表示感謝，然后離開。IarriveinLondonatlast.Therailwaystationwasbig,blackanddark.用三個(gè)形容詞對(duì)火車站進(jìn)行簡(jiǎn)單的描述。Therailwaystationwasbig，blackanddark.這一句交代了作者問(wèn)路的必要，從而引起下文的幽默故事。big更口語(yǔ)化，多用于指體積、重量、規(guī)模、程度方面的大large指寬度、數(shù)量之大，一般可互換abigbuilding/alargebuilding此外，用large表示巨大的事物，帶有敬畏的感情色彩eg.Hehaslargehands.black

adj.1)黑色的→white2)發(fā)黑的，污染的eg.Yourhandsareblack.你的手臟了。3)黑皮膚的blackcoffee純咖啡4)不祥的blackFriday黑色星期五5)黑暗的(dark)blackandblue青一塊紫一塊goblack失去知覺(jué)，眼前一黑intheblack有盈余→inthered赤字blackeye黑眼圈Sweartheblackiswhite.顛倒黑白，指鹿為馬dark

adj.1)黑暗的←→lighteg.Theskyhasturnedquitedark.天空變得非常黑暗。2)皮膚黝黑的←→fair3)深色的←→lightdarkblue深藍(lán)色還可指眼睛、頭發(fā)等很黑的4)陰暗的，憂郁的darkexpression憂郁的表情inthedark在暗處eg.Acatcanseeinthedark.貓?jiān)诤诎抵幸材芸匆姟nthedark秘密地，一無(wú)所知地keepaplaninthedark保持計(jì)劃的秘密性darkhorse不明實(shí)力的馬，競(jìng)賽中實(shí)力不明但被認(rèn)為可能獲勝的人theDarkAges黑暗的時(shí)代——?dú)W洲中世紀(jì)知識(shí)藝術(shù)水平衰退而有此稱darken

v.變黑，發(fā)暗eg.

Neverdarkenmydooragain.別再跨進(jìn)我家門檻。Therailwaystationwasbig,blackanddark.Ididnotknowthewaytomyhotel,soIaskedaporter.thewaytomyhotelto是介詞，可以加名詞、動(dòng)名詞或代詞作介詞的賓語(yǔ)thewaytomyhotel去旅館的路thekeytothedoor這扇門的鑰匙theanswertothequestion這個(gè)問(wèn)題的答案theentrancetothebuilding這幢樓的入口當(dāng)表示由此及彼的關(guān)系用“to”表達(dá)。so表示前后是因果關(guān)系InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butveryclearlyaswell.notonly…but…aswell不但，而且eg.InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butveryclearlyaswell.==InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butalsoveryclearly.我講英語(yǔ)不但非常認(rèn)真而且咬字也非常清楚。Theporter,however,couldnotunderstandme.Irepeatedmyquestionseveraltimesandatlastheunderstood.然而這個(gè)搬運(yùn)工卻不能聽懂我的話，however在這里表轉(zhuǎn)折，我把話重復(fù)了幾遍，and在這里表示順承的關(guān)系，最后他懂了。Understand是及物動(dòng)詞后面接賓語(yǔ)，understood在這里是不及物動(dòng)詞后面無(wú)賓語(yǔ)。Heansweredme,buthespokeneitherslowlynorclearly.neither…nor…既不…也不…eg.Theyworkedneigherforfamenorforpersonalgains.他們工作既不圖名也不圖利。eg.Shecouldneitherspeakthelanguagenorwriteit.這門語(yǔ)言她既不會(huì)說(shuō)也不會(huì)寫?！甀amaforeigner,’Isaid.Thenhespokeslowly,butIcouldnotunderstandhim.But強(qiáng)調(diào)轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系MyteacherneverspokeEnglishlikethat!likethat像那樣eg.Idon’tlikedishonestpersonlikehim.我不喜歡像他那樣不誠(chéng)實(shí)的人。eg.Likefather,likeson.有其父，必有其子。（諺）feellike想要，意欲feellikedoing…想要做…eg.Iamtired.Idon’tfeellikedancingtoday.我累了，我今天不想跳舞。TheporterandIlookedateachotherandsmiled.ThenhesaidsomethingandIunderstoodit.'You'llsoonlearnEnglish!'hesaid.Iwonder.InEngland,eachpersonspeaksadifferentlanguage.TheEnglishunderstandeachother,butIdon'tunderstandthem!DotheyspeakEnglish?Iwonder==Iamnotsure.theEnglish英國(guó)人English指英語(yǔ)eg.Englishisveryinteresting.eg.TheEnglishareveryfriendly.四、練習(xí)Exercise1.Mysisterwentshopping.Iwentshopping.

(Both…and)→BothmysisterandIwentshopping.2.Wegotverytired.Wegotveryhungry.

(notonly…but…aswell)→Wenotonlygotverytiredbutveryhungryaswell.3.Itwasthreeo’clock.Wecouldnotgetlunch.Wehadacupoftea.

(and…so)→Itwasthreeo’clockandwecouldnotgetlunchsowehadacupoftea.Exercise1.Hedidn’tspeakslowlyandhedidn’tspeakclearly____.A.neitherB.eitherC.tooD.nor他講得不慢，他講得也不清楚。分析：B.否定句中either表示“也不”；A.兩者都不，一般不用于帶否定詞not的否定句中：C.也，只能用于肯定句中；D.不能單獨(dú)使用