Lesson 5 No Wrong Numbers

中文

詹姆斯-斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。

平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯-斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了12只鸽子。

昨天，一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫斯特带到锡尔伯里。

这只鸟只用了3分钟就飞完了全程。

到目前为止，斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。

就这样，他开始了自己的私人“电话”业务。

英文

Mr.James Scott has a garage in Slibury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.

Pinhurst is only five miles from Slibury, but Mr.James cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve [twelv] pigeons.

Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Slibury.

The bird covered the distance in three minutes.

Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.

In this way, he has begun his own private telephone service.

分析

Mr.James Scott has a garage in Slibury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.

• compound sentence:：
  • Mr.James Scott has a garage in Slibury
    • Mr.James Scoot [subject]
    • has [predicate verb phrase]
    • a garage [object]
    • in Slibury [adverbial of place]
  • and
  • now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
    • now [adverbial of time]
    • he [subject]
    • has bought [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
    • just [adverbial]
    • another garage [object]
    • in Pinhurst [adverbial of place]
• knowledge:
  • just + ... adv. 只是...; 同样..., 依然...

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Pinhurst is only five miles from Slibury, but Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.

• compound sentence:：
  • Pinhurst is only five miles from Slibury
    • Pinhurst [subject]
    • is [be verb]
    • only five miles from Slibury [predicative]
      • only five miles
      • from Slibury [attributive]
  • but
  • Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage
    • Mr.Scott [subject]
    • cannot get [predicate verb phrase]
    • a telephone [object]
    • for his new garage [adverbial of purpose]
  • so
  • he has just bought twelve pigeons.
    • he [subject]
    • has bought [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
    • just [adverbial]
    • twelve pigeons [object]

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Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Slibury.

• simple sentence:
  • Yesterday [adverbial of time]
  • a pigeon [subject]
  • carried [predicate verb phrase]
  • the first message from Pinhurst to Slibury. [object]
    • the first message [object]
    • from Pinhurst to Slibury [attributive]
• knowledge:
  • from + sth.① + to + sth.②
    • sth.① 当前为 Pinhurst
    • sth.② 当前为 Slibury.
  • yesterday, 名词性副词 adv. 昨天, 昨日; 最近, 新近
  • carry + sth. vt. 携带, 运送, 支持, 传送, 包含

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The bird covered the distance in three minutes.

• simple sentence:：
  • The bird [subject]
  • covered [predicate verb phrase]
  • the distance [object]
  • in three minutes [adverbial of time]
• knowledge:
  • cover + the + distance v. 走完一段距离

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Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.

• simple sentence:：
  • Up to now [adverbial of time]
  • Mr.Scott [subject]
  • has sent [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
  • a great many request for spare parts and other urgent message [object]
  • from one garage to the other [prepositional object phrase]
• knowledge:
  • a great many sth
  • a request for sth
    • n. 对...的请求
  • from + sth.① + to + sth.② sth.① 当前为 one garage sth.② 当前为 the other.

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In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.

• simple sentence:：
  • In this way [adverbial of manner]
  • he [subject]
  • has begun [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
  • his own private telephone service [object]

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• a great many 许多的； 只能同可数名词复数
  • a great many requests
• from Silbury 介词 from 做 距.... 离...
  • It is far away from here.
• up to now = up till now 到现在为止，做时间状语，
• a great man