新概念英语教材详解：第一册 Lesson71-72

课文详注 Further notes on the text

1.What's Ron Marston like, Pauline? 波琳，朗·马斯顿是怎样一个人?

What is sb. like? 这一句式可用来询问某人的外貌或品行。就本课的具体情况而言，波琳的回答更多地是指马斯顿的品行如何。

2.He telephoned me four times yesterday… 他昨天给我打了4次电话……

four times, 4次。 time在英语中作不可数名词时表示“时间”;作可数名词时表示“次数”。请注意英语中次数的表示法：

once 1次

twice 两次

three times 3次

3次或 3次以上通常都用基数词+ times表示：

five times 5次

thirty times 30次

3. the day before yesterday, 前天。

4.answer the telephone, 接电话。

口语中也常用 answer the phone。类似的短语如：

answer the door/doorbell 应声开门

answer a letter 回信

5.She can't speak to you now! 她现在不能同你讲话!

speak to sb. 意为“与某人说话”。例如打电话时可以说：

May I speak to Pauline, please? 请让波琳接电话好吗?

I' d like to speak to Pauline, please. 我想请波琳听电话。

6.This is Pauline's mother. 我是波琳的母亲。

This is…是英美人打电话时表示“我是……”的句式，而不说I'm…。相关的电话用语如：

This is Mary speaking. 我是玛丽。

This is Edward calling from London. 我是爱德华，现正在伦敦给你打电话。

一般过去时(2)

(请参见 Lessons 67～68语法部分。)

be动词以外的动词在一般过去时中一般有两种形式。规则动词一般是在动词后面加-ed，如 answered;以-e结尾的规则动词加-d，如 telephoned, arrived。另一部分动词的过去式拼写不规则，因此称为不规则动词，如：say----said, do----did。

用一般过去时的句子中常常有表示过去某一时刻的时间状语，如本课中的 yesterday(昨天)，the day before yesterday(前天)，yesterday morning(昨天上午)，yesterday afternoon(昨天下午)，yesterday evening(昨天晚上)，last night(昨夜)。

answer

(1)v. 对……作出反应;响应：

Who answered the telephone? 谁接的电话?

Mary took a few minutes to answer the door. 玛丽拖了几分钟时间才去开门。

(2)v. 回答;答复：

I don't think you've answered my question. 我认为你没有回答我的问题。

I wrote him several letters but couldn't get an answer. 我给他写了好几封信，可都没有回音。

(3)n. 答案;解决办法：

Do you know the answer to Question 10? 你知道第10题的答案吗?

This is one of the possible answers to today's environmental problems. 这是有可能解决当今环境问题的办法之一。

Lesson 72

A

1 It is raining now. It rained yesterday.

2 It is snowing now. It snowed yesterday.

3 He is boiling some eggs. He boiled some yesterday.

4 We are enjoying our lunch. We enjoyed it yesterday, too.

B

1 What did they do yesterday?

They cleaned their shoes yesterday.

2 What did he do last night?

He opened the box last night.

3 What did they do this morning?

They sharpened their pencils this morning.

4 What did she do this evening?

She turned on the television this evening.

5 What did she do last night?

She listened to the radio last night.

6 What did she do yesterday morning?

She boiled an egg yesterday morning.

7 What did they do yesterday afternoon?

They played a game yesterday afternoon.

8 What did he do in the morning the day before yesterday?

He stayed in bed in the morning the day before yesterday.

9 What did she do yesterday evening?

She telephoned her husband yesterday evening.

10 What did she do the night before last?

She called the doctor the night before last.