Lesson 38 Everything except the weather
Lesson 38 Everything except the weather
中文
我的老朋友哈里森在回到英国以前曾多年居住在地中海地区。
过去他常幻想退休后到英国，并计划在乡间安顿下来。
他刚一回到英国便买下了一幢房子住了进去。
但紧接着他就开始抱怨那里的天气了。因为即使那时仍为夏季，但雨总是下个不停，而且常常冷得厉害。
在阳光下生活了那么多年的哈里森对此感到惊奇。
他的举动就好像他从未在英国生活过一样。
最后，他再也忍受不住，还没等安顿下来就卖掉了房子，离开了这个国家。
他多年来的幻想从此破灭。
哈里森把每件事情都考虑到了，唯独没想到天气。
英文
My old friend, Harrison [ˈhærɪs(ə)n], had lived in the Mediterranean [ˌmedɪtəˈreɪniən] for many years before he returned to England.
He had often dreamed of retiring [rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ] in England and had planed [pleɪnd] to settle down in the country.
He had no sooner returned than he bought a house and went to live there.
Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even thought it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly [ˈbɪtəli] cold.
After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock.
He acted [ˈæktɪd] as if he had never lived in England before.
In the end, it was more than he could bear. He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country.
The dream he had had for so many years ended there.
Harrison had thought of everything except [ɪkˈsept] the weather.
分析
My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England.
- complex sentence:
- My old friend had lived in the Mediterranean for many years
- My old friend
[subject] - had lived {
[propositional object phrase]}[predicate verb phrase] - in the Mediterranean
[proposition object phrase] - for many years
[adverbial of time]
- My old friend
- before he returned to England
- before + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - he
[subject] - returned {propositional object clause}
[predicate verb phrase] - to England
[prepositional object phrase]
- before + clause
- My old friend had lived in the Mediterranean for many years
- knowledge:
- live + in + sp.
- v. 住在...
- live + in + sp.
He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country.
- compound sentence:
- He had often dreamed of retiring in England
- He
[subject] - had often dreamed of
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - retiring in England
[object]
- He
- and
- He had planned to settled down in the country
- He
[subject] - had planned to do
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - settle down in the country
[object]
- He
- He had often dreamed of retiring in England
- knowledge:
- dream + of + doing.
- v. 梦想...(做某事), 渴望...(做某事)
- settle + down + sth.
- vt. 使舒服地坐下, 定居, 平静下来, 专心于
- in + ... + country
- prep. (in the country)在乡下
- prep. (in one's that country)在...国家
- dream + of + doing.
He had no sooner returned than he bought a house and went to live there.
- complex sentence:
- He had returned
- He
[subject] - had returned
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense]
- He
- he bought a house and went to live there
- he bought a house
- and
- he went to live here
- He had returned
- knowledge:
- no sooner ... than ....
- 一...就。用来引导时间状语从句。主语用过去完成时，than后面的从句用一般过去时。
- go + to + sth.
- v. 前往...; 去...; 进入...; 开始经历...
- no sooner ... than ....
Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold.
- compound sentence:
- almost immediately he began to complain about the weather
- almost immediately
[adverbial] - he
[subject] - began to do
[predicate verb phrase] - to complain about the weather
[to-do as object]
- almost immediately
- for even though it was still summer
- for even though
[adverbial of cause] - it
[subject] - was
[be verb] - still summer
[predicative][noun phrase]
- for even though
- it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold
- it rained continually
- it
[subject] - rained
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - continually
[adverbial]
- it
- and
- it was often bitterly cold
- it
[subject] - was
[be verb] - often bitterly cold
[predicative][adjective]
- it
- it rained continually
- almost immediately he began to complain about the weather
- knowledge:
- begin + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. 开始...(做某事)
- complain + about + sth.
- v. 抱怨...
- even + though 引导的状语从句
- sent. 即使...; 尽管...; 虽然...
- for + 句子 + ...
- 这是一个固定搭配。
- begin + to + do. + (sth.)
After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock.
- complex sentence:
- after so many years of sunshine
[adverbial of time] - Harrison got a shock
- Harrison
[subject] - got
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - a shock
[object]
- Harrison
- after so many years of sunshine
- knowledge:
- ... + year(s) + of + sth.
- n. 充满...的...(多少)年; ...(多少)年的...
- ... + year(s) + of + sth.
He acted as if he had never lived in England before.
- complex sentence:
- he
[subject] - acted
[link verb][past simple tense] - as if + clause
[predicative clause]- he had never lived in England before
- he
[subject] - had never lived {
[propositional object phrase]}[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - in England
[prepositional object phrase] - before
[adverbial of time]
- he
- he had never lived in England before
- he
- knowledge:
- act + as if 引导的表语从句
- live + in + sp.
- v. 住在...
In the end, it was more than he could bear.
- complex sentence:
- in the end
[adverbial] - it was more than he could bear
- it
[subject] - was
[be verb] - more than he could bear
[predicative][noun phrase]- more than + clause
[adverbial clause of comparison] - he could bear
- more than + clause
- it
- in the end
- knowledge:
- in + the + end
- prep. 最后, 终于
- more + than 引导的比较状语从句
- in + the + end
He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country.
- complex sentence:
- he had hardly had time to settle down
- he
[subject] - had hardly had
[predicate verb phrase][past perfect tense] - time to settle down
[object]- to settle down
[to-do as complement]
- to settle down
- he
- when he sold the house and left the country
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - he sold the house and left the country
- when + clause
- he had hardly had time to settle down
- knowledge:
- hardly + do.
- v. 几乎不(能)...(做某事), 几乎没(有)...(做某事)
- do. 当前为 had time to settle down
- hardly + do.
The dream he had had for many years ended there.
- complex sentence:
- the dream ended there
- the dream
[subject] - ended
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - there
[object]
- the dream
- he had had for many years
- he
[subject] - had had
[predicate verb phrase][past simple tense] - for many years
[object]
- he
- the dream ended there
Harrison had thought of everything except the weather.
- simple sentence:
- Harrison
[subject] - had though of
[predicate verb phrase] - everything
[object] - except the weather
[adverbial of accompany]
- Harrison
- knowledge:
- think + of + sth.
- v. 考虑, 关心, 想, 想起, 记得, 想一想, 想象, 想出, 提出
- 状语:
- 状语的作用：状语说明地点、时间、原因、目的、结果、条件、方向、程度、方式和伴随状语等。
- 状语一般由副词、介词短语、分词和分词短语、不定式或相当于副词的词或短语来担当。其位置一般放在句首，但也可放在句末或句中。
- 状语是一种用来修饰动词，形容词、副词或全句的词，说明时间，地点，程度，方式等概念。
- think + of + sth.
- except prep 除了
- They are all here except Cathy.
- No one except me knew about the plan
- complain 抱怨 v.
- complain to sb about / of sth
- We complained to the manager about the food.
- complain that +
[object clause]- We complained to the manger that the food had gone bad.
- complain to sb about / of sth
- continually adv. 不断地
- bitterly adv. 刺骨的
- bitter adj. 苦的，严寒的
- Black coffee tastes bitter.
- It was bitterly cold.
- bitter adj. 苦的，严寒的
- sunshine n 阳光
- dreamed of 梦想、向往
- settle down in the country
- settle down
- 定居、安顿
- settle down
- He had no sooner returned than he bought a house and went to live there
- no sooner ... than .... 一...就。用来引导时间状语从句。主语用过去完成时，than后面的从句用一般过去时。
- even though 即使，引导让步状语从句。
- He acted as if he had never lived in England before.
- as if 引导方式状语从句。
- more than he could bear. 超过他能忍受的程度。
- for even t hough:
- for conj，表示原因，作为上文的补充性说明，不可用于句首
- even thought 即使、尽管，引导让步状语从句
- got a shock
- get a shock 感到震惊、感到惊讶
- He acted as if
- as if 好像，仿佛，引导方式状语从句。
- in the end, at last/ finally 最后，最终
- more than 超出...的范围
- hardly .... when .... 还没来得及.....就 ；刚....就
- I had hardly taken my seat in t he theater when the play began.
- hardly 过去完成时 when 过去时
- as if / as though 好像、仿佛