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第一單元 CHILDHOOD ANDSCHOOL DAYS
第一部分 原文
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第二部分 重點(diǎn)語(yǔ)匯
million
I could eat about a million and a half of these.
我能吃下去無(wú)數(shù)塊巧克力。
Million 在美國(guó)人的日常用語(yǔ)中經(jīng)常見(jiàn)到,用夸張的語(yǔ)氣表示數(shù)量的不勝枚舉。例如本句中,阿甘形容自己可以吃下“一百五十萬(wàn)塊巧克力”,意即百吃不厭。
1. 阿甘在形容自己是多年來(lái)第一批訪問(wèn)中國(guó)的美國(guó)人時(shí),是這樣講的:
I was the first American to visit the land of China in like a million years or something like that.
我是幾百萬(wàn)年來(lái)第一批訪問(wèn)中國(guó)的美國(guó)人。
2. 當(dāng)一個(gè)美國(guó)人在形容自己即將到來(lái)的婚禮是多么興師動(dòng)眾時(shí),他可以這樣表述:
It’s like a million people flying in around the world.
似乎有幾百萬(wàn)人從世界各地飛來(lái)參加我們的婚禮。
3. 類似的表達(dá)方法還有“thousand”,“hundred”,甚至“twenty”。
1) Our house had been in Mama’s family since her grandpa’s grandpa’s grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago.
自打一千年前媽媽的爺爺?shù)臓敔數(shù)臓敔斪娓钙筮^(guò)海來(lái)到這里,這座房子就屬于媽媽的家族。
2) I’ve told you a hundred times that today I’ll come back late.
我給你講過(guò)無(wú)數(shù)次了,今天我會(huì)晚些回來(lái)。
tell
There’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes.
看人們腳上穿的鞋子就能判定很多事情。
指“判斷”、“斷定”、“辨別”,類似的用法如下:
1. Yes, I did have plastic surgery. How can you tell?
是的,我確實(shí)做過(guò)美容手術(shù),你怎么看出來(lái)的?
2.And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.
在沙漠里的時(shí)候,太陽(yáng)升起來(lái),我看不出天地的分界。
3. Even though it was so dark I could still tell it was you.
盡管很黑,我仍然辨認(rèn)得出你來(lái)。
4. tell (when/how) It’s hard to tell when we can finish the work.
我們什么時(shí)候能完成工作還很難說(shuō)。
5. tell (by/from) You can tell by the way it walks that the cat has been injured.
看那只貓走路的姿勢(shì)就知道它受傷了。
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