口语

  • to be fond of 喜欢
  • to be crazy about 非常喜欢
  • I don’t mind
    • I don’t mind being around cats but I don’t want to own one.
  • I don’t like it at all 我一点也不喜欢
  • I can’t bear it 我无法忍受它
  • to be keen on 热衷于，喜爱

新概念 2 L38 Everything except the weather 唯独没有考虑到天气

词汇

  • except pp. 除了(-)
    • besides (+)
      • 29 people arrived besides Tom 除了汤姆以外，还有 29 个人来了。（30个人）
  • the Mediterranean n. 地中海
  • complain vt. 抱怨
    • complain to sb. 向某人抱怨
    • complain about sth. 抱怨某事
    • complain to sb. about sth.
  • explanation n. c 解释
  • complaint n.c 抱怨
    • I have a number of complaints about the hotel room.
  • continual a. 不断的；（贬义）
    • continually adv. 不断地，总是
    • 不断地争吵 continually quarrel
  • bitter a. 苦的
    • sour 酸的
    • sweet 甜的
    • spicy 辣的 / hot
    • salty 咸的
    • the bitter cold
    • the bitter wind
  • sunshine n. 阳光
    • 耀眼的阳光 bright sunshine
    • be bathed in sunshine 沐浴在阳光下
    • The town was bathed in spring sunshine.

原文

My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock. He acted as if he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was more than he could bear. He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had thought of everything except the weather.

参考译文：

我的老朋友哈里森在回到英国以前曾多年居住在地中海地区。过去他常幻想退休后到英国，并计划在乡间安顿下来。他刚一回到英国便买下了一幢房子住了进去。但紧接着他就开始抱怨那里的天气了。因为即使那时仍为夏季，但雨总是下个不停，而且常常冷得厉害。在阳光下生活了那么多年的哈里森对此感到惊奇。他的举动就好像他从未在英国生活过一样。最后，他再也忍受不住，还没等安顿下来就卖掉了房子，离开了这个国家。他多年来的幻想从此破灭。哈里森把每件事情都考虑到了，唯独没想到天气。

  • settle down v. 定居
    • settle down in the country
  • (had) no sooner (done) … than + 句 / hardly … when + 句 一… 就
    • 我一到家，电话就响了。
      I no sooner had arrived home than the phone rang.
      I had hardly arrived home when the phone rang.
  • although / though / even though = even if / while（程度较弱）
  • but / yet / however
  • as if = as though 就好像，仿佛
    • as if / though + 句子
    • look / sound / act + as if