Lesson 29 Taxi

中文

本.弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车，并开始了一项新的业务。

这辆“出租汽车”是一架小型瑞士飞机，叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。

这架奇妙的飞机可以载7名乘客。

然而，最令人惊奇的是它能够在任何地方降落：雪地上，水面上，甚至刚耕过的田里。

弗西特机长的第一名乘客是位医生，他从伯明翰飞往威尔士山区一个偏僻的村庄。

从那时开始，弗西特机长已经载送乘客到过许多不寻常的地方。

一次，他把飞机降落在了一栋公寓楼的屋顶上；还有一次，降落在了一个废弃的停车场上。

弗西特机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的奇怪要求。

这个人想要飞往大西洋上的一个孤岛 -- 罗卡尔岛，弗西特机长之所以不送他去，是因为那段飞行太危险了。

英文

Captain Ben Fawcett [ˈfɔsɪt] has bought an unusual taxi and has begun [bɪˈɡʌn] a new service.

The 'taxi' is a small Swiss [swɪs] airplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.

This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.

The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere [ˈeniweə(r)]: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed filed.

Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.

Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places [ˈpleɪsɪz].

Once he landed [ˈlændɪd] on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.

Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.

The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous [ˈdeɪndʒərəs].

• a block of flats 一栋公寓

分析

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.

• compound sentence:
  • Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi.
    • Captain Ben Fawcett [subject]
    • has bought [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
    • an unusual taxi [object]
  • and
  • Captain Ben Fawcett has begun a new service.
    • Captain Ben Fawcett [subject]
    • has begun [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
    • a new service [object]

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The 'taxi' is a small Swiss airplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.

• simple sentence:
  • The 'taxi' [subject]
  • is [be verb]
  • a small Swiss airplane called a 'Pilatus Porter' [predicative] [noun phrase]
    • a small Swiss airplane
    • called a Pilatus Porter [attributive]

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This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.

• simple sentence:
  • This wonderful plane [subject]
  • can carry [predicate verb phrase]
  • seven passengers [object]

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The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.

• complex sentence:
  • The most surprising thing about it [subject]
  • is [be verb]
  • be. + that + [predicative clause]
    • it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field
      • it [subject]
      • can land [predicate verb phrase]
      • anywhere [object]
  • knowledge:
    • the + most + adj. + sth. 名词短语

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Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.

• complex sentence:
  • Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor
    • Captain Fawcett's first passage [subject]
    • was [be verb] [past simple tense]
    • a doctor [object]
  • who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.
    • who + clause [attributive clause]
    • flew from A to B [predicate verb phrase]
    • in the Welsh mountains [adverbial of place]
  • knowledge:
    • fly + from + sp.① + to + sp.②
      • sp.① 当前为 Birmingham
      • sp.② 当前为 a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.

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Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.

• simple sentence:
  • Since then [adverbial of time]
  • Captain Fawcett [subject]
  • has flown ... to ...[predicate verb phrase]
  • passengers [direct object]
  • many unusual places [prepositional object phrase]
• knowledge:
  • fly + sth.① + to + sth.②
    • sth.① 当前为 passengers
    • sth.② 当前为 many unusual places.

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Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.

• compound sentence:
  • Once he landed on the roof of block of flats
    • Once [adverbial of time]
    • he [subject]
    • landed on [predicate verb phrase]
    • the roof of block of flats [object]
  • and
  • on another occasion he landed in a deserted car park.
    • On another occasion [adverbial of time]
    • he [subject]
    • landed in [predicate verb phrase]
    • a deserted car park [object]
• knowledge:

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Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.

• simple sentence:
  • Captain Fawcett [subject]
  • has just refused [predicate verb phrase] [present perfect tense]
  • just [adverbial]
  • a strange request from a businessman [object]
    • from a businessman [attributive]
• knowledge:
  • refuse + sth. vt. 拒绝, 谢绝

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The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

• compound sentence:
  • The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean
    • The man [subject]
    • wanted [predicate verb phrase]
    • to fly to Rockall [to-do as object]
    • a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean [adverbial of place]
  • but
  • Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
    • Captain Fawcett did not take him
      • Captain Fawcett [subject]
      • did not take [predicate verb phrase]
      • him [object]
    • because the trip was too dangerous
      • because + clause [adverbial of clause]
      • the trip [subject]
      • was [be verb]
      • too dangerous [predicative] [adjective]
• knowledge:
  • want + to + do. + (sth.) v. 想要...(做某事)
  • too + adj. adj. 太...; 过于...

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• 现在完成时：
  • 形式：have/has + done
  • 用法：现在的之前
  • 现在完成时： + since + 过去的时间
  • 现在完成时： + since + 过去的动作
• 过去分词：
  • 过去分词表示被动
    • 过去分词作定语修饰名词
    • a used card
    • wasted time
    • a ploughed field
    • a deserted car park
    • a woman called Dragon Lady
• from A to B 从A到B
• He has lived in Beijing since 1993
  • He has lived in Beijing for 20 years.
  • He has lived in Beijing since he was born.
• once .... and on another occasion.
• refuse a request