A new house 新居
【課文】
I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.
【課文翻譯】
昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信,她住在尼日利亞。在信中她說她明年將到英國來。如果她來了,她會感到非常驚奇了。我們現(xiàn)在住在鄉(xiāng)間的一棟漂亮的新住宅里。這棟房子在我姐姐離開之前就已動工了,是在5個月以前竣工的。我在信中告訴她,她可以和我們住在一起。這棟房子里有許多房間,還有一個漂亮的花園。它是一棟非,F(xiàn)代化的住宅,因此在有些人看來很古怪。它肯定是這個地區(qū)唯一的一棟現(xiàn)代化住宅。
【生詞和短語】
complete v. 完成
modern adj. 新式的,與以往不同的
strange adj. 奇怪的
district n. 地區(qū)
【知識點講解】
1 get a surprise
這個短語里,surprise作“使人驚奇、意外的事物”講,是可數(shù)名詞。
His boyfriend promises to give a surprise to her for birthday.
他男朋友答應在她生日時給她個驚喜。
2 in the country 在鄉(xiāng)下
Many people choose to live in the country when they are old.
很多人選擇老了后去鄉(xiāng)下居住。
3 Work on it had begun before my sister left.
這棟房子在我姐姐離開之前就已動工了。
在這個句子里,work是名詞,作主語,指住房的建設,而it是指房屋。因為建設這個動作發(fā)生在姐姐離開之前,所以動詞begin用了過去完成時。類似的句子有:
I had finished my work when my mother called.
媽媽給我打電話時我的工作已經(jīng)做完了。
4 complete [動詞]使齊全,使完整;結束,完成
This government intends to complete this project by the end of this year.
政府計劃在年底完成這個項目。
complete還可以做形容詞,表示完全的,徹底的;完整的,整個的。其副詞形式是completely。
complete with sth.
包含,含有(額外部分或特征)
a complete change 翻天覆地的變化 in complete silence 萬籟俱寂
She was completely touched by this movie.
她完全被整部電影打動了。
5 stay with sb. 與某人暫住,在某人處逗留
My friend is going to stay with me during the holiday.
我朋友節(jié)假日要來我這里住幾天。
短語擴展:stay the night 過夜 stay in 呆在家里,不外出 stay out 呆在戶外,不在家,不回家
stay over 留宿 stay up 熬夜,深夜不睡
6 so it looks strange to some people.
因此在有些人看來它很古怪。
be strange to sb. 陌生的,不熟悉的,奇怪的
短語擴展:fell strange 感覺不自在,感覺不舒服
例句:Peking Opera is strange to some foreigners.
對某些外國人來說,京劇是一項陌生的事物。
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