Lesson 40 Food and talk
Lesson 40 Food and talk
中文
进餐与交谈
在上星期的一次宴会上，女主人安排我坐在兰伯尔德夫人的身旁。
兰伯尔德夫人是一位身材高大、表情严肃的女人，穿一件紧身的黑衣服。
当我在她身旁坐下来的时候，她甚至连头都没有抬一下。
她的眼睛盯着自己的盘子，不一会儿就忙着吃起来了。
我试图找个话题和她聊聊。
"一出新剧要来"环球剧场"上演了" 我说 "您去看么"
"不" 她回答
"您今年去国外度假吗?" 我又问
“不” 她回答
“您就呆在英国吗？” 我问
“不” 她回答
失望之中我问她饭是否吃的满意。
“年轻人” 她回答说，“如果你多吃点，少说点，我们两个都会吃得好”
英文
Last week at a dinner party, the hostess [ˈhəʊstəs] asked [ɑ:skt] me to sit next to Mrs.Rumbold.
Mrs.Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress.
She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her.
Her eyes were fixed [fɪkst] on her plate [pleɪt] and in a short time, she was busy eating.
I tried [traɪd] to make conversation.
"A new play is coming to "The Globe [ɡləʊb]" soon' I said "Will you be seeing it"
"No" she answered.
"Will you be spending your holidays abroad [əˈbrɔːd] this year?" I asked.
"No" she answered.
"Will you be staying in England" I asked.
"No" she answered.
In despair [dɪˈspeə(r)], I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
"Young man" she answered. "If you ate [et; eɪt] more and talked [tɔːkt] less, we would both enjoy our dinner"
分析
Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs.Rumbold.
- complex sentence:
- Last week at a dinner party
[adverbial of place]- Last week
- at a dinner party
- the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs.Rumbold.
- the hostess
[subject] - asked sb to do sth
[predicate verb phrase] - me
[object] - to sit next to Mrs.Rumbold
[to-do as object complement]
- the hostess
- Last week at a dinner party
- knowledge:
- a + dinner + party
- n. 晚餐聚会, 晚宴; 宴会
- ask + sb. + to + do. + (sth.)
- v. [要求/叫/让/请]...(某人)...(做某事)
- sit + next + to + sth.
- v. 坐在...旁边
- a + dinner + party
Mrs.Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress.
- simple sentence:
- Mrs.Rumbold
[subject] - was
[be verb] - a large, unsmiling lady in a tight black dress
[predicative][noun phrase]
- Mrs.Rumbold
She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her.
- complex sentence:
- She did not even look up
- she
[subject] - did not even look up
[predicate verb phrase]
- she
- when I took my seat beside her.
- when + clause
[adverbial clause of time] - I
[subject] - took
[predicate verb phrase] - my seat
[object] - beside her
[adverbial of place]
- when + clause
- She did not even look up
- knowledge:
- take + a + seat
- v. 坐下, 入座, 就坐
- v. (take one's seat) 坐在...(某人)的座位上; 抢占...(他人)的座位
- take + a + seat
Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating.
- compound sentence:
- Her eyes were fixed on her plate
- her eyes
[subject] - were fixed
[predicate verb phrase][passive form of verb] - on her plate
[adverbial of place]
- her eyes
- and
- in a short time, she was busy eating.
- in a short time
[adverbial of time] - she
[subject] - was eating
[predicate verb phrase][past continuous tense] - busy
[frequently adverb]
- in a short time
- Her eyes were fixed on her plate
- knowledge:
- fix + sth.① + on + sth.②
- n + a + short + time
- prep. 很快, 不久, 过了一阵子; 短时间地, 在很短的时间内
- be. + busy + doing. + (sth.)
- on + one's + plate
- prep. 在盘子上; 花个人的[时间/精力]
I tried to make conversation.
- simple sentence:
- I
[subject] - tried to do sth
[predicate verb phrase] - to make conversation
[to-do as object]
- I
- knowledge:
- make + conversation
- v. 对话, 谈话; 没话找话, 闲扯
- make + conversation
'A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon', I said. 'Will you be seeing it?'
- simple sentence:
- A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon
- a new play
[subject] - is coming to
[predicate verb phrase][present continuous tense] - The Globe
[object] - soon
[adverbial]
- a new play
- Will you be seeing it?
- you will be seeing it
- you
[subject] - will be seeing
[future continuous tense] - it
[object]
- you
- you will be seeing it
- A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon
'No' she answered.
'Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?' I asked.
- simple sentence:
- Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year
- You will be spending your holidays abroad this year
- you
[subject] - will be spending
[predicate verb phrase][future continuous tense] - your holidays
[object] - abroad
[adverbial of place] - this year
[adverbial of time]
- you
- knowledge:
- this + year
- adv. 今年; 在今年
- this + year
'No' she answered.
'Will you be staying in England?' I asked.
- simple sentence:
- Will you be staying in England?
- you will be staying in England
- you
[subject] - will be staying
[predicate verb phrase][future continuous tense] - in England
[adverbial of place]
- you
'No', she answered.
In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
- complex sentence:
- In despair
[adverbial of manner] - I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
- I
[subject] - asked
[predicate verb phrase] - her
[indirect object] - whether she was enjoying her dinner.
[direct object][object clause]- she
[subject] - was enjoying
[past continuous tense] - her dinner
[object]
- she
- I
- In despair
'Young man', she answered, 'if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!'.`
- complex sentence:
- if you ate more and talked less
- if + clause
- you
[subject] - ate more and talked less
[predicate verb phrase]
- we would both enjoy our dinner!
- we both
[subject] - would enjoy
[predicate verb phrase] - our dinner
[object]
- we both
- if you ate more and talked less
- hostess
- ess女性后缀
- fix:
- 凝视
- despair n. 绝望。
- v 放弃希望
- despair of
- v 放弃希望
- next to
- She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her.
- She was busy eating.
- be busy doing sth.
- The globe.
- Will you be seeing it.
- 用来将来时进行提问，尤其是提出问题但又不迫使对方做出明确回答，会显得语气更委婉。
- ask sb to do sth
- next to - beside 紧挨着，旁边
- take a seat 坐下
- Please take a seat
- fix one's eyes o
- make conversation
- 闲谈、聊天