裕興新概念英語第二冊筆記-第25課

Lesson25DotheEnglishspeakEnglish?英國人講的是英語嗎？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。火車站很大，又黑又暗。我不知道去飯店的路該怎么走，于是向一個搬運工打聽。我的英語講得不但非常認真，而且咬字也非常清楚。然而搬運工卻不明白我的話。我把問話重復了很多遍。他終于聽懂了。他回答了，但他講得既不慢也不清楚?！拔沂莻€外國人，”我說。于是他說得慢了，可我還是聽不懂。我的老師從來不那樣講英語！我和搬運工相視一笑。接著，他說了點什么，這回我聽懂了?！澳鷷芸鞂W會英語的！”他說。我感到奇怪。在英國，人們各自說著一種不同的語言。英國人之間相互聽得懂，可我卻不懂他們的話！他們說的是英語嗎？【Newwordsandexpressions】（5）1railway['reilwei]n.鐵路2porter['p?:t?]n.搬運工3several['sev?r?l]幾個4foreigner['f?rin?]n.外國人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.搬運工，腳夫（在車站，機場，旅館等處的）bellboy/pageboy

(Am.)旅館，俱樂部等通常穿制服的男服務員port

n.港，口岸clearaport

出港closeaport

封港reachaport/enteraport

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

一些，幾個eg.Severalmorepeoplethanusualcametotheconcert.來音樂會的人比平常多了幾個。eg.Irepeatedmyquestionsseveraltimes.我把問題重復了幾遍。2)各自的，各個的（文）eg.Severalmen,severalminds.人各有志；10個人有10個樣。（諺）foreigner

n.外國人ablue-eyedforeigner一個藍眼睛的外國人entertainforeigners款待外賓entertain[,ent?'tein]vt.&vi.款待,招待foreign

['f?rin]adj.外國的，無關的，陌生的foreignlanguageforeigngoods外國貨foreignstudents留學生foreignaffairs外交事務foreignpolicy外交政策foreigntrade外貿eg.Thequestionisforeigntothematterinhand.這問題與處理中的事情無關。eg.Thesubjectisforeigntous.我們對這個問題很陌生。overseas/oversea

adj.在海外的，來自海外的，僑居海外的overseastrade海外貿易adv.在海外，來自海外gooverseas到海外去，adj.+er→n.2)Irepeatedmyquestionseveraltimes.Atlastheunderstood.(and)我把問題重復了幾遍，最后他懂得了?！狪repeatmyquestionseveraltimesandatlastheunderstood.3)IspokeEnglishverycarefully.Ispokeveryclearly.我講英語非常小心，我講英語非常清楚。>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（大地方）arriveat到達（小地方）gettoreach

vt.到達atlast終于，到底（強調努力的結果）eg.Atlast,hesucceededinbusiness.終于，他生意上成功了。intheend表示一種結局，結果eg.Wetalkedandtalkedaboutwheretogo,butstayedathomeintheend.我們不停地討論去哪兒，但結果還是呆在家里。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.用三個形容詞對火車站進行簡單的描述。Therailwaystationwasbig，blackanddark.這一句交代了作者問路的必要，從而引起下文的幽默故事。big更口語化，多用于指體積、重量、規(guī)模、程度方面的大large指寬度、數量之大，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，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.貓在黑暗中也能看見。inthedark秘密地，一無所知地keepaplaninthedark保持計劃的秘密性darkhorse不明實力的馬，競賽中實力不明但被認為可能獲勝的人theDarkAges黑暗的時代——歐洲中世紀知識藝術水平衰退而有此稱darken

v.變黑，發(fā)暗eg.

Neverdarkenmydooragain.別再跨進我家門檻。Therailwaystationwasbig,blackanddark.Ididnotknowthewaytomyhotel,soIaskedaporter.thewaytomyhotelto是介詞，可以加名詞、動名詞或代詞作介詞的賓語thewaytomyhotel去旅館的路thekeytothedoor這扇門的鑰匙theanswertothequestion這個問題的答案theentrancetothebuilding這幢樓的入口當表示由此及彼的關系用“to”表達。so表示前后是因果關系InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butveryclearlyaswell.notonly…but…aswell不但，而且eg.InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butveryclearlyaswell.==InotonlyspokeEnglishverycarefully,butalsoveryclearly.我講英語不但非常認真而且咬字也非常清楚。Theporter,however,couldnotunderstandme.Irepeatedmyquestionseveraltimesandatlastheunderstood.然而這個搬運工卻不能聽懂我的話，however在這里表轉折，我把話重復了幾遍，and在這里表示順承的關系，最后他懂了。Understand是及物動詞后面接賓語，understood在這里是不及物動詞后面無賓語。Heansweredme,buthespokeneitherslowlynorclearly.neither…nor…既不…也不…eg.Theyworkedneigherforfamenorforpersonalgains.他們工作既不圖名也不圖利。eg.Shecouldneitherspeakthelanguagenorwriteit.這門語言她既不會說也不會寫。‘Iamaforeigner,’Isaid.Thenhespokeslowly,butIcouldnotunderstandhim.But強調轉折關系MyteacherneverspokeEnglishlikethat!likethat像那樣eg.Idon’tlikedishonestpersonlikehim.我不喜歡像他那樣不誠實的人。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英國人English指英語eg.Englishisveryinteresting.eg.TheEnglishareveryfriendly.四、練習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.不能單獨使用