2015.5.16
Lesson 63 She was not amused 她并不觉得好笑
一、课文原句
1、a large circle of friends 交际很广
2、admires him for his great sense of humour 钦佩他的幽默感
Admire sb for sth 因某事羡慕/赞美某人
3、make a speech 演讲、致祝词
4、the sort of thing ***类事情
The sort of +n.(单数)
5、prepared the speech 准备演讲稿
二、本课单词
★ circle
• ① n. 环形物,圈
Eg:围成一圈坐下sit in a circle
• ② n. 集团,同伙,社会,…界(常用复数)
Eg:上流社会the upper circles
Eg:商业界business circles
• ③ v.转,旋转,回旋,盘旋
Eg:飞机在我们的农场上空盘旋
The airplane circled over our farm.
★admire
• ① vt. 钦佩,赞赏
Eg:我比其他人更加赞赏他的音乐。
I admire his music more than anyone else’s.
固定短语:admire sb. for sth. 因为……羡慕某人
Eg:我羡慕他的知识
I admire him for his knowledge.
• ② vt. 欣赏,观赏
Eg:当在欣赏一座新建筑的时候,我听见有人在叫我的名字。
While admiring the new building, I heard someone calling my name.
• ③ vt. (口语)夸奖,称赞
Eg:她喜欢别人赞赏她的孩子。
She likes to hear her children admired.
★close
• ① adj. 亲密的
close friend 亲密的朋友
• ② v. 关 <门、窗户等> ,闭上 <眼睛、嘴巴等>
Eg:所有的门窗都关起来了
All the doors and windows have been closed.
闭上眼睛 Close your eyes.
★reception n. 招待会
reception = party
婚宴wedding reception
新闻发布会, 记者招待会
news conference
★sort n 种类
区别:type 种类, 有特殊特征的
• 一般情况都用kind, sort
• sort和kind有时可以互换,但在下面两种情况下用sort:
①a sort of的用法 that sort of person 那种人
② sort可含有讽刺意味
Eg:你不得与那种人交往。
You mustn’t mix with that sort of people.
Eg:It takes all sorts to make a world.
世界上有各种各样的人
sort of (口语)有些,有几分,有点,稍微
eg:他有些生气了
he was sort of angry.
三、课文讲解
1)Jeremy Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties.
• have a large circle of friends
• =sb. has/have a lot of friends
Eg:他有很多朋友
He has a large circle of friends.
★Circle在这里的含义是
(具有共同利益或兴趣等的人形成的)圈子,……界
Eg:在商业圈中从来不讨论这样的事情
Such things are never talked about in business circles.
Eg:Jeremy曾经有很多朋友,但是他现在喜欢自己一个人。
Jeremy used to have a large circle of friends, but now he likes being alone.
★popular adj. 受欢迎的,得人心的
Eg:Mary总是很受孩子的欢迎
Mary is always popular with children.
2)Everybody admires him for his great sense of humour -- everybody, that is, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.
• admire… for 钦佩……的……
eg:我不同意她的意见,但是我很钦佩她能够坚持自己的原则。
I don't agree with her, but I admire her for sticking to her principles.
• that is为插入语,一旦插在句子当中, 是作为固定结构,意思是“那就是说,亦即”,起解释作用
eg:他下个周一回家,也就是4月5日。
He is coming home next Monday, that is, April 5th.
• sense of humor 幽默感
eg:乔治一点幽默感都没有
George has no sense of humor.
Eg:他是个不幽默的人。
He is a man without humor.
3)Recently, one of Jeremy's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a weddin
g reception.
• ask sb to do sth 请求某人做某事
eg:他要求我们离开房间
He asked us to leave the room.
Eg:请叫邻居们不要这样喧哗
Please ask the neighbors not to make so much noise.
• prepare sth. 准备做……
eg:两个技术人员正在准备一个计划。
Two technicians were preparing a plan.
4)This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the wedding with Jenny.
• sort of 种类
eg:那就是我所要的东西
That's the sort of thing I want.
Eg:你想要哪种书?
What sort of book do you want?
5)He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success.
• Include 包括,包含
Eg:所有飞机上的人,包括驾驶员在内,全部丧生
All on the plane were lost, including the pilot.
• include包含,只是里面内容的一部分
区别contain强调容器里的包含, 后面一定要把所有的东西都列举出来
Eg:那水罐可容纳足够我们全体饮用的水
The pot contains enough water for all of us.
6)As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Jeremy was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked.
• be disappointed by… 因为……感到失望
eg:他对考试成绩感到失望。
He is disappointed by his mark.
• as +从句
• 如同……那样,以……的方式(方式状语从句)
Eg:按告诉你的做 do as you are told
Eg:这鱼不是按我喜欢的方式做的。
This fish isn’t cooked as I like it.
7)On the way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn't.
• Enjoy sth/doing sth 喜欢某事/做某事
Eg:我希望你在我国的访问会过得愉快
I hope you'll enjoy your visit to our country.
• To one’s surprise 另某人惊奇的是
Eg:我人生中第一次开始努力工作。令我惊奇的是,我发现我喜欢这种感觉。
I started working hard for the first time in my life. To my surprise, I found I liked it.
8)Jeremy asked her why this was so and she told him that she did not like to see so
many people laughing at him!
• why this was so
• this 可以作主语, 也可以作宾语
• so 只能作宾语, 只能放在动词后面
eg:我也这样认为。I think so.
Eg:希望如此 I hope so.
Eg:我猜是这样 I guess so.
Eg:我拒绝这样做 I refuse to do so.
• see sb. doing sth. 看见某人正在作某事
eg:有人看见她和一位男士沿著街道走
She was seen walking along the street with a gentleman.
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