新概念英语第二册:第51课课文详解及语法解
课文详注 Further notes on the text
1.…but things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet.……但是近来状况变得更加糟糕,以致他打算节食。
(1)things(要用复数形式)可以表示“状况”、“情形”、“状况”、“形势”等含义:
You”ve surely made things worse.
你的确使状况变得更糟了。
How are things going on with you?
你那里状况如何?
(2)get作不及物动词时可以表示“变得”:
I got interested in French.
我(变得)对法语感兴趣了。
I got angry with him.
我(变得)对他很生气。
(3)diet用于表示某种疾病或调整体重的“特种饮食”、“规定饮食”时通常与on连用:
The doctor put him on a strict diet.
医生让他严格掌握饮食。
She is on a diet.
她正在节食。
I once went on a diet for a week and then I gave up.
我曾经节食过一周,然后就放弃了。
2.First of all, he wrote out a long list of all the foods which were forbidden.首先,他开列了一张长长的单子,上面列了全部禁吃的食物。
include和contain
(1)first of all为固定短语,表示“首先”、“第一”:
First of all I must see your passport.
首先我必需看一下你的护照。
(2)write out这个短语表示“(正式)写”、“写出”或“全部写出”:    You should write out a report.
你应当写一份报告。
3.The list included most of the things Hugh loves…这张单子上的大多数食物都是休喜爱吃的……
It contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of
sweets!
里面装了5大块巧克力和3袋糖果!
include和contain都有“包含”的意思,但contain可以用于表示所包含的全部事物,include则只表示其中的一局部:
It included three bags of sweets.
其中有3袋糖果。(另外还有其他东西)
contain的主语通常为某个容器,include则含义更广:
Does the bill include a tip?
账单包括小费吗?
We”re including you in our team.
我们把你列为我们队中的一员了。
4.Yesterday I paid him a visit.昨天我去探望了他。
pay a visit to sb. 表示“访问某人”:
I paid a visit to Jane the other day.
前几天我去探望了简。
5.…Hugh was still as fat as ever.……休仍和平常一样胖。
as ever是as he ever was的省略形式。as…as ever这个构造表示“照旧”、“依旧”:
He is as strong as ever.
他依旧那么强壮。
6.It was obvious that he was very embarrassed.明显他感到很为难。
it为先行主语,真正的句子主语是that引导的从句,它在句子中起名词的作用。从句作主语时通常前面用先行主语it,以免句子看上去头重脚轻:
It is certain now that he”ll come on Monday.
现在可以确定他星期一将会来。
语法 Grammar in use
一般过去时
在第3课及第27课的语法中我们都学习了一般过去时。在一段文字中,初次使用一般过去时的时候通常要有明确的时间状语,随后的表达则可以不肯定使用时间状语;假如不加before,
after等词语,过去的动作就被认为是按所描述的挨次发生的:
One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat struck a rock and the girl jumped into the sea.
一天下午,她乘小船从海岸动身,遇上了风暴。天将黑时,小船撞在了一块礁石上,姑娘跳进了海里。
与一般过去时常用的两个词是once和recently:
I went on an excursion recently.
最近我作了一次短途旅行。
recently在表示“最近一段时期”时也可以与现在完成时连用:    I haven”t heard from him recently.
我最近没有收到他的信。
一般过去时也可以用于时间状语从句中:
When did she haer a noise?
她什么时候听到响声的?
She heard it when she walked forward.
她在向前走时听到的。
一般过去时可以用于与最近的准备比拟时:
Are they going to see a film?
他们准备看一场电影吗?
I don”t expect so.They saw one last week.
我想他们不会。他们上个星期刚看过一次。

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