Lesson 31 Success story
Lesson 31 Success story
中文
昨天下午弗兰克.霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。
在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。
他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作14个小时。
他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。
20多岁的时候，弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件。那时他有两个帮手。
几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。
弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路，微笑了。
他正笑着的时候门开了，他的妻子走了进来。
她叫他去修理孙子的自行车。
英文
Yesterday afternoon Frank [fræŋk] Hawkins [ˈhɔːkɪnz] was telling me about his experiences [ɪkˈspɪrɪənsɪz] as a young man.
Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in small shop.
It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
In his twenties [ˈtwentiz] Frank used to make spare parts for airplanes. At that time he had two helpers.
In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory [ˈfæktəri] which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle.
分析
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
- simple sentence:
- Yesterday afternoon
[adverbial of time] - Frank Hawkins
[subject] - was telling ... about ...
[predicate verb phrase][past continuous tense] - me
[indirect object] - about his experiences as a young man
[prepositional object phrase]- his experiences
- as a young man
[attributive of time]
- Yesterday afternoon
- knowledge:
- tell + sth.① + about + sth.②
- v. 告诉...关于...
- tell + sth.① + about + sth.②
Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
- compound sentence:
- Before he retired
[adverbial clause of time] - Frank was the head of a very large business company
- Frank
[subject] - was
[be verb] - the head of a very large business company
[predicative][noun phrase]
- Frank
- but
- as a boy he used to work in a small shop
- as a boy
[adverbial of time] - he used to work in a small shop
- he
[subject] - used to work
[predicate verb phrase] - in a small shop
[adverbial of place]
- he
- as a boy
- Before he retired
- knowledge:
- used + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. (过去)常常...
- v. (not)不常...
- v. (never)从来没有..., 从未...
- used to do. 与 be used to doing. 有何区别
- used to do. 表示过去常常做某事，一般用于描述发生在过去的事情。
- be used to doing. 表示习惯于做某事。
- used to do的否定形式是didn't use to do或usedn't to do。
- used to do的疑问形式是Did you use to do sth?。
- used + to + do. + (sth.)
It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
- compound sentence:
- It was his job to repair bicycles
- It
[subject] - was
[be verb] - his job to repair bicycles
[predicative][noun phrase]- to repair bicycles
[attributive]
- to repair bicycles
- It
- and
- At that time he used to work fourteen hours a day
- at that time
[adverbial of time] - he
[subject] - used to work
[predicate verb phrase] - fourteen hours a day
[adverbial of time]
- at that time
- It was his job to repair bicycles
- knowledge:
- at + that + time
- prep. 在那时
- at + that + time
He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
- compound sentence:
- He save money for years
- he
[subject] - save
[predicate verb phrase] - money
[object] - for years
[adverbial of time]
- he
- and
- In 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own
- In 1958
[adverbial of time] - he
[subject] - bought
[predicate verb phrase] - a small workshop of his own
[object]
- In 1958
- He save money for years
In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for airplanes.
- simple sentence:
- In his twenties
[adverbial of time] - Frank
[subject] - used to make
[predicate verb phrase] - spare parts for airplanes
[object]
- In his twenties
At that time he had two helpers.
- simple sentence:
- At that time
[adverbial of time] - he
[subject] - had
[predicate verb phrase] - two helpers
[object]
- At that time
In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
- complex sentence:
- In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory
- In a few years
[adverbial of time] - the small workshop
[subject] - had become
[link verb] - a large factory
[predicative][noun phrase]
- In a few years
- which + clause
[attributive clause] - which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people
- which
[subject] - employed
[predicate verb phrase] - seven hundred and twenty-eight people
[object]
- which
- In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory
- knowledge:
- in + ... + year
- adv. 在...年里
- a + few + sth.
- n. 几个, 少数, 一些
- become + sth.
- vt. 成为...
- have + done.
- v. (一般完成时); 已经...,
- in + ... + year
Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
- complex sentence:
- Frank smiled
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success
- he
[subject] - remembered
[predicate verb phrase] - his hard early years and the long road to success
[object]
- he
He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
- compound sentence:
- He was still smiling when the door opened
- he
[subject] - was still smiling
[predicate verb phrase][past continuous tense] - still
[adverbial] - when the door opened
[adverbial clause of time]- the door
- opened
- he
- and
- his wife came in
- his wife
[subject] - came in
[predicate verb phrase]
- his wife
- He was still smiling when the door opened
She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
- simple sentence:
- She
[subject] - wanted
[predicate verb phrase] - him
[object] - to repair their grandson's bicycle
[to-do as object complement]
- She
- knowledge:
- want + sth.① + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. [希望/想要]...(某人/物)...(做某事)
- want + sth.① + to + do. + (sth.)
- success n 成功
- successful adj
- successfully adv
- succeed v.
- bicycle n 自行车
- tricycle 三轮车
- recyclable adj 可循环使用的
- save v. 积蓄
- save money for the rainy days
- save time
- employ v. 雇佣
- unemployment n 失业
- unemployment rate 失业率