MODULE 5 Newspapers and Magazines
【日常常利用语】
1. How come…? 怎么……？
2. Do you believe…? 你相信……吗？ 3. …is really unbelievable! ……简直难以置信！
4. Where did sb….? 某人在哪里……？ 5. …is/was the best way… ……是……的最好方式。
6. To be honest,… 说实话…… 7. I’m not sure about… 我不太肯定……
8. I doubt… 我很怀疑……
【情景会话】
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A
A:John's father got married again. 约翰的父亲又成婚了。 B:Married whom? 他娶了谁？
A:If I tell you, you must be completely taken aback.
我如果告知你，你必然会大吃一惊。 B:Come on. Tell me what happened. 快点说吧。说给我听发生了什么情形。 A:He married a girl who is only eighteen! 他娶了一名只有十八岁的女孩！
B:Is that true? But anyhow, it's none of our business, isn’t it?
真的吗？但无论怎样，这不关咱们的事，对
吧？ 注释:
be taken aback大吃一惊
讲解:aback是副词，指“突然地”“猝不及防地”take sb. aback意思是“把某个人弄得措手不及”，用于被动语态中，则是be taken aback。
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C
A: How come David is always so full of energy? 大卫怎么老是那么精力充沛呢？
B: He has a strange but highly effective way of sleeping.
他有个奇怪却超级有效的睡眠方式。 A: Oh, really? What is that?
哦，是吗？是什么样的？
B: He takes a short sleep for an hour every 6 hours and has a total of four hours of sleep each day.
他每六个小时睡一个小时，天天总共睡四个小时。
A: It’s really unbelievable! Where did he get that strange idea?
简直难以置信！他是从哪儿得来的那个奇怪的主意？
B: He read from a book which said it was the best way for human beings and he believed it.
他从一本书中看到的，那上面说这是人类最好的睡眠方式。他就相信了。
A: Do you believe it is good for health?
你相信这对健康有利吗？
B: To be honest, I’m not sure about it. 说实话，我不太肯定。
A: Can you sleep in the same way as David does? 你能像大卫如此睡觉吗？
B: I doubt it. Not everyone is David, I guess. 我很怀疑。不是每一个人都是大卫，我想。
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