Reward for virtue

【課文】

My friend, Hugh, has always been fat, but things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet. He began his diet a week ago. First of all, he wrote out a long list of all the foods which wereforbidden. The list included most of the things Hugh loves: butter, potatoes, rice, beer, milk, chocolate; and sweets. Yesterday I paid him a visit. I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Hugh was still as fat as ever. He led me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was obvious that he was very embarrassed. When I asked him what he was doing, he smiled guiltily and then put the parcel on the desk. He explained that his diet was so strict that he had to reward himself occasionally. Then he showed me the contents of the parcel. It contained five large bars of chocolate and three bags of sweets!

【課文翻譯】

我的朋友休一直很胖，但是近來(lái)情況變得越發(fā)糟糕，以致他決定節(jié)食。他是一星期前開(kāi)始節(jié)食的。首先，他開(kāi)列了一張長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的單子，上面列了所有禁吃的食物。這張單子上的大多數(shù)食物都是休喜歡吃的：黃油、土豆、米飯、啤酒、牛奶、巧克力和糖果。昨天我去看望了他。我按響了門(mén)鈴，當(dāng)看到休仍和往常一樣胖時(shí)，我并不感到驚奇。他把我領(lǐng)進(jìn)屋，慌忙把一個(gè)大包藏到了桌子下面。顯然他感到很尷尬。當(dāng)我問(wèn)他正干什么時(shí)，他內(nèi)疚地笑了，然后把那個(gè)大包拿到了桌上。他解釋說(shuō)，他的飲食控制得太嚴(yán)格了，以致不得不偶爾獎(jiǎng)賞自己一下。接著他給我看了包里的東西。里面裝了5大塊巧克力和3袋糖果!

【生詞匯總】

reward n. 報(bào)償

virtue n. 美德

diet n. 節(jié)食

forbid v. 禁止

hurriedly adv. 匆忙地

embarrass v. 使尷尬

guiltily adv. 內(nèi)疚地

strict adj. 嚴(yán)格的

reward v. 給獎(jiǎng)賞

occasionally adv. 偶爾地

【短語(yǔ)匯總】

go on a diet節(jié)食減肥

pay a visit拜訪

first of all首先

write out寫(xiě)出

【知識(shí)點(diǎn)講解】

1，so that與so……that的區(qū)別( things got so bad recently that he decided to go on a diet)

連在一起的so that是目的狀語(yǔ)從句的連接詞之一，意思和in order that 完全一致，都表示“以便于……”“為了能夠……”

例：I keep on a diet so that I can be slim again.我節(jié)食減肥目的是能夠重新苗條起來(lái)。

分開(kāi)來(lái)的so that可以看作是too…to句型的反義，表示“太……以至于……”

例：It is so hot that I have to stay at home all day long.天氣太熱了，以至于我一天都得呆在家里面。

2，定語(yǔ)從句連接詞的省略(The list included most of the things Hugh loves)

定語(yǔ)從句的連接詞包括:that,which,who,where,when,why,whose等，可以省略的有且僅有that一詞，而且是有條件的——當(dāng)它后面的那個(gè)從句成分上缺失賓語(yǔ)的時(shí)候才可以將其省略。

例：this is the cellphone that you gave me last year.可以省略為：this is the cellphone you gave me last year.后面的句子中，gave無(wú)賓語(yǔ)，即給的內(nèi)容。

3，surprise用法匯總(I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Hugh was still as fat as ever)

首先，作名詞的時(shí)候surprise重點(diǎn)記憶to one's surprise這樣一個(gè)短語(yǔ)，意思是“令人驚訝的是”。

作動(dòng)詞，surprise是及物動(dòng)詞，意思是讓某人驚訝。

最重要的是surprise做形容詞用，要進(jìn)行兩個(gè)變形：surprising和surprised，ing形式的形容詞意思統(tǒng)一是“令人覺(jué)得很驚訝”，而后面的過(guò)去分詞形式的形容詞意思是“感覺(jué)到很驚訝”。如：The news i surprising, and I am surprised.

4, as……as句型用法匯總( Hugh was still as fat as ever)

首先，as……as中間插入形容詞副詞時(shí)表示和什么一樣的意思，如：she is as diligent as you.她和你一樣勤奮。

其次，as……as possible\you can的意思是“盡可能的……”。如：run as quickly as you can盡可能的跑快一點(diǎn)。

最后，as soon as是一個(gè)獨(dú)立的短語(yǔ)，意思是“一……就……”，如：I arrived home as soon as it started to rain.天一開(kāi)始下雨我就到家了。

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