A: Hi, Mary, how are you doing? B: Fine. What happended to you yesterday? I didn t see you in class. A: Oh, I overslept as usual. What went on anyway? B: We heard about two-word verbs. A: What s a two-word verb? B: Things like 0drop in, go over, get out, fill up. Listen to these two sentences: citation will run in the third race tomorrow. Mr.Lee will run in to see you tomorrow. Can you tell which run in is the two-word verb?
Notes How are you doing? 同how are you? (美国人见面时常用的问候语) What happened to you yesterday? 昨天你出了什么事？ What went on? 发生了什么事？ Citation 一匹赛马的名字 Run in 顺便来访
A：喂，玛丽，你好吗? B：很好。昨天你出了什么事？我在课堂上没有见到你。 A：啊，像往常一样睡过头了，难道有什么事？ B：我们学了一些成语动词。 A：什么成语动词？ B：像0drop in, go over, get out, fill up这些词。听听下面这两句话：Citation will run in the third race tomorrow. Mr.Lee will run in to see you tomorrow. 这两句中都有run in，你能说出哪一个是成语动词吗？
12．More Two-word Verbs 又一些成语动词
A: I hadn t finished telling you about two-word verbs, Bob. B: Do I have to hear more? I m not sure I can follow it. A: Sure you can. This part is the most interesting. B: Okay. Go ahead. A: Well, here are sentences with two-word verbs with objects: I can t get over I can t get it over I can t get over it I can t get him over it They all mean different things B: Can you explain how they re different? A: Each part or both parts of the two-word verb can have an object. The verb may have different meanings with different objects, or different arrangements of object. Is that clear? You look confused. B: I m not confused, I was just thinking.
Notes Follow-understand Get over 越过(如篱笆) Get it over 解释，讲清楚 Get over it 从(惊吓、疾病)恢复过来 Get him over it 使他忘却(遗憾、悲伤)
A：鲍勃，关于成语动词，我还没有对你讲完。 B：我还需要听你讲吗？我不知道是否能理解。 A：你当然能理解。这一部分是最有意思的。 B：好，说吧。 A：嗯，下列这些句子里的成语动词有宾语： I can t get over I can t get it over I can t get over it I can t get him over it 这些句子的意思都不相同。 B：你能否解释一下怎么不同？ A：成语动词的每个部分或两个部分可以有一个宾语。动词加上不同的宾语或宾语的不同组合，就可以有不同的含意。清楚了吗？你好像弄糊涂了。 B：我没有糊涂。我只是在思考。
13. Speak up 大声说话
A: I thought I was speaking English fairly well. Now I m not so sure. B: What did you say? A: I said I thought I spoke pretty good English, but people keep asking me to repeat what I ve said, so maybe I m not doing so well after all. B: There s nothing wrong with your English. It s just that no one can hear what you re saying. A: Is that what s wrong? But I think it s impolite to talk loudly. B: You don t have to shout, but you do have to make yourself heard. Maybe Americans talk louder than other people. If so, you ll just have to speak louder,too.
Notes Fairly well 挺不错 Is that what s wrong? 这就是问题所在吗？ Make yourself heard 让别人听得见你说的话
A: To speak a language, one must know its grammar almost completely, not just its vocabulary or its sounds, not even sets of rules for constructing sentences. But one can t learn a language by studying only its grammar. If you do this, you may learn only the grammar and not the language. Instead, by memorizing how to use them, one can learn both the grammar of the language and the language.
A: People always say that Chinese and English are very hard to learn. Sometimes I wish I were learning French or Japanese. Maybe they d be easier. B: Maybe, but maybe not too. It all depends on what language you already speak. A: Why should that be? What diffrence does it make? B: Well, languages are more or less equally difficult. Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way. A: You mean I could learn Chinese easily? B: No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that are similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound systems are more similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how much it resembles your own language.
Notes Sound system-the total arrangement of the vocal units of a language Resembles-is like
A: Hello, Harry. Where are you off to? B: I m going home to study my English lesson. A: English lesson? B: Yes. I m trying to learn a little more. I don t always understand what people say, and they don t always understand me. A: What re you learning about? B: Well. For instance, some words in a sentence. The time between two of these stressed words is always about the same, no matter how many words there are. This is what makes English sound jerky. First you go very fast, and then perhaps you slow up. A: Hmmmm. I never noticed that. Give me an example. B: Sure, Here s a sentence we memorized for class. “You told me last night not to let you argue me out of getting you up on time.”It takes just as long to say“not to let you argue me out of getting you up on time”as it does to say“you told me last night”
Notes Accented-stressed Jerky 不规则地跳动
A：你好，哈里，你到哪儿去？ B：我回家去温习英语课。 A：英语课？ B：是的，我想尽量多学一点。我总是听不懂人家讲的话，别人也听不懂我讲的话。 A：我在学习什么呢？ B：嗯，例如，在一句话中的有些词是加重语气的，读音较重。不论一句中有多少加重的词，其中两个词间隔的时间总是几乎一样的。这就使英语的音调显得不平稳。开始你说得很快，后来可能慢下来。 A：哦，我倒从来没有注意到这点。给我举个例子。 B：可以。这儿有一句我们在上课时应记住的话：“You told me last night not to let you argue me out of getting you up on time.”在说“not to let you argue me out of getting you up on time”这段话的时间就和说“you told me last night”这句话一样长。
17. “No”and“Not” “No”和“Not”
A: Hi, Mary. How ve things been? I haven t heard anything about your English investigation for weeks. What re you studying now? B: Now it s negative-“no”and“not”, to be specific. A: There s nothing particularily unusual about “no”and“not”, is there? B: Not a lot, really. The main thing seems to be that “not”is used with verbs, and “no”everywhere else.
Notes How ve things been? 情况如何？(问候用语) Investigations-research
A: I guess I ll turn in, Bob. It s been a long day. B: I ve got a chapter to read for tomorrow, so I ll be up for a while yet. I ll turn off the heat and lock the door before I go to bed. A: Okay. What time are you getting up tomorrow? B: Oh, the usual time. No, wait a minute. Make sure I m up before you go to work, will you? I ve got a quiz at ten. It wouldn t hurt to read over my notes. A: I ll try, but when seven o clock comes around, don t forget you asked me to wake you. B: Good night, Joe.
Notes Turn in 上床睡觉 Be up for a while 等一会儿(再睡) Quiz 小型考试、测验 It wouldn t hurt to-it would be wise to come around 到来
A: Hello, Pete. This is Bob. How are you? B: Oh, I m fine. A: Where were you this afternoon? You missed an important lecture. Not sick, I hope. That s good. The next time you decide to skip class, check with me first. It wouldn t do for both of us to be absent. We need at least one complete set of notes. By the way, are you still in time wasting mood? Good. Why don t you come over after supper? Joe s off somewhere with date, and I don t feel much like working. About eight o clock? Swell. And bring some records over, why don t you? Okay. See you then. Goodbye.
Notes Skip class 逃课 Check with me 让我知道 Feel like-want to Swell 好极了(口头语) Time-wasting 觉得无聊的，没事可干
A: And then we went to a dance after dinner, and after the third dance she tells me that she s practically engaged to some G.I. who s overseas. B: So? A: What d ya mean “so”? You don t accept dates if you re practically engaged. B: Why not? You only asked her for a date, not for her hand in marriage. There s nothing wrong in going out with a friend from the office. A: I know, but it makes me mad. They re all engaged, and they never tell you before you ask them out.
Notes G.I. (美国)大兵 So?-go on, there s nothing strange about that （这实际上不是一句疑问句，意思是：这有什么可奇怪的，说下去） d ya mean-do you mean (口语中do you连续，发d ya的音) For one s hand in marriage 向…求婚 Go out with sb.-ask to spend some time with sb.