新概念 2 L92：Asking for trouble 自找麻烦

词汇

  • fast ad. 熟睡
    • fast asleep
  • ladder n. 梯子
    • go up the ladder
    • descend the ladder
  • shed n. 棚子
    • a tool shed
    • a cattle shed
  • sarcastic a. 讽刺的
  • tone n. 口气，语调，语气
    • in … tone
    • Don’t speak to me in that tone.

原文

It must have been about two in the morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroom window. I was almost there when a sarcastic voice below said, ‘I don’t think the windows need cleaning at this time of the night.’ I looked down and nearly fell off the ladder when I saw a policeman. I immediately regretted answering in the way I did, but I said, ‘I enjoy cleaning windows at night.’

‘So do I,’ answered the policeman in the same tone. ‘Excuse my interrupting you. I hate to interrupt a man when he’s busy working, but would you mind coming with me to the station?’

‘Well, I’d prefer to stay here,’ I said. ‘You see. I’ve forgotten my key.’

‘Your what?’ he called.

‘My key,’ I shouted.

Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife who opened the window just as the policeman had started to climb towards me.

参考译文：

我回到家时，肯定已是凌晨两点左右了。我按响了门铃，试图唤醒我的妻子，但她睡得很熟。于是，我从花园的小棚里搬来了一个梯子，把它靠在墙边，开始向卧室的窗口爬去。快要爬到窗口时，下面一个人用讽刺的口吻说：“我看不必在夜里这个时候擦窗子吧。”我向下面看去。当我看清是一个警察时，差一点儿从梯子上掉下去。我回答了他的话，但马上又后悔不该那样说，我是这样说的：“我喜欢在夜里擦窗子。”

“我也是的，”警察用同样的声调回答，“请原谅我打断了您。当一个人在忙着干活时，我是不愿意去打断他的，但请您跟我到警察局去一趟好吗?”

“可我更愿意呆在这儿，”我说，“您瞧，我忘带钥匙了。”

“什么?”他大声问。

“钥匙!”我喊道。

幸运得很，这喊声惊醒了我的妻子。就在警察开始向我爬上来时，她打开了窗子。

  • did A, did B and did C
  • 介词：against
    • 靠着，撞着，触碰
      • Put the piano against the wall
      • We sit by the fire. （by 只是接近，不触碰）
    • 反对，违反
      • I am against your plan.
  • need doing / need to do
    • need doing 被动，需要被做 = need to be done
    • need to do 主动
  • regret to do / regret doing
    • regret to do 遗憾去做
    • regret doing 后悔做了
  • so do I
    • Peter likes swimming, so does his brother. 皮特喜欢游泳，他的哥哥也是。
    • 否定：neither / nor do I
      • I don’t like watching TV. Neither do I.
    • I’ll go there for a visit with my fmaily during the long holiday of May. So will I.
  • 介意
    • Do you mind the noise?
    • mind + doing
  • wake - woke - woken