Lesson 34 Quick Work
Lesson 34 Quick Work
中文
破案神速
丹.鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。
上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他到警察局去一趟。
丹奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他不再担心了。
在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他，他的自行车找到了。
那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他运回家来。
丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到。
这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的！
英文
Dan [dæn] Robinson [ˈrɑbɪnsən] has been worried [ˈwʌrid] all week.
Last Tuesday [ˈtjuːzdeɪ] he received a letter from the local police [pəˈliːs]. In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
Dan wondered [ˈwʌndə(r)] why he was wanted [ˈwɒntɪd] by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.
At the station, he was told by a smiling [ˈsmaɪlɪŋ] policeman that his bicycle had been found.
Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train.
Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused [əˈmjuːzd] too, because he never expected [ɪkˈspektɪd] the bicycle to be found.
It was stolen [ˈstəʊlən] twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
分析
Dan Robinson has been worried all week.
- simple sentence:
- Dam Robinson
[subject] - has been
[be verb][present prefect tense] - worried
[predicative][adjective] - all week
[adverbial of time]
- Dam Robinson
- knowledge:
- worried adj. 担心的, 闷闷不乐的
Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.
- simple sentence:
- Last Tuesday
[adverbial of time] - he
[subject] - received
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - a letter
[object] - from the local police
[adverbial of place]
- Last Tuesday
In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
- simple sentence:
- in the letter
[adverbial of place] - he
[subject] - was asked to do
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - to call at the station
[to-do as object]
- in the letter
Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.
- compound sentence:
- Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police
- Dan
[subject] - wondered
[predicate verb phrase] - why he was wanted by the police
[object clause]- he
[subject] - was wanted
[passive form of verb] - by the police
[adverbial of manner]
- he
- Dan
- but
- he went to the station yesterday
- he
[subject] - went to
[predicate verb phrase] - the station
[object] - yesterday
[adverbial of time]
- he
- and
- now he is not worried anymore
- he
[subject] - is not
[be verb] - worried
[predicative][adjective]
- he
- Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police
At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.
- complex sentence:
- at the station
[adverbial of place] - he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found
- he
[subject] - was told
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb]``[past simple tense] - by a smiling policeman
[adverbial of manner] - that his bicycle has been found
[object clause]- his bicycle
[subject] - has been found
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb][present prefect tense]
- his bicycle
- he
- at the station
- knowledge:
- at + the + station
- prep. 在车站
- at + the + station
Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in small village four hundred miles away.
- complex sentence:
- five days ago
[adverbial of time] - the policeman
[subject] - told him that the bicycle was picked up in small village four hundred miles away
- told sb that + object clause
- him
[direct object] - that + object clause
[indirect object]- the bicycle was picked up in small village four hundred miles away
- the bicycle
[subject] - was picked up
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb]``[past simple tense] - in small village four hundred miles away
[adverbial of place]
- the bicycle
- the bicycle was picked up in small village four hundred miles away
- five days ago
- knowledge:
- pick + up + sth.
- vt. 掘地, 捡起, 获得, 学会, 看到, 中途带, 搭乘, 重新找到, 振作, 加快, 好转, 整理
- pick + up + sth.
It is now being sent to his home by train.
- simple sentence:
- It
[subject] - is being sent {
[prepositional object phrase]}[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb][present continuous tense] - to his home
[prepositional object phrase] - by train
[adverbial of manner]
- It
Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.
- complex sentence:
- Dan was most surprised
- Dan
[subject] - was
[be verb] - most surprised
[predicative][adjective]
- Dan
- when he heard the new
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - he
[subject] - heard
[predicate verb phrase] - the news
[object]
- when + clause
- knowledge:
- most + adj., 构成形容词最高级形式
- Dan was most surprised
He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found.
- complex sentence:
- He was amused too,
- he
[subject] - was
[be verb] - amused
[predicative][adjective]
- he
- because he never expected the bicycle to be found
- because + clause
[adverbial clause of cause] - he never expected the bicycle to be found
- he
[subject] - expected
[predicate verb phrase] - the bicycle
[object] - to be found
[to-do as object complement]
- he
- because + clause
- He was amused too,
- knowledge:
- expect + sth. + to + do.
- v. 期待...(某人或某物)...(做某事)
- expect + sth. + to + do.
It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
- complex sentence:
- It was stolen twenty years ago
- It
[subject] - was stolen
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb][past simple tense] - twenty years ago
[adverbial of time]
- It
- when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - Dan
[subject] - was
[be verb] - a boy of fifteen
[predicative]- of fifteen
[attributive]
- of fifteen
- when + clause
- It was stolen twenty years ago
- the local police.
- call at 拜访， 也可以用 call on
- he is not worried anymore.
- the policeman told him.
- pick up 捡起；获得；收拾
- It is now being sent to his home by train. 现在进行时的被动语态。
- most surprised 中的most有very的意思。
- be worried about 对...担心
- want v. 通缉、需要某人、想要和某人见面。
- not ... anymore 不在....怎么样
- pick up 偶然获得
- be being done 现在进行时的被动语态