跟可可听英语讲座 第33讲
日期:2009-01-02 10:34

(单词翻译:单击)

PROGRAMME 33
PART I - The Dialogue

Norm 和 Doris来到一家旅行社。他们看了一份到中国去旅行的路线简介,接着就和旅行社的工作人员(travel agent)谈了起来。
NORM:
This one looks good.
TRAVEL AGENT:
Yes.If you fly to Hong Kong between June and August, you get a 20%discount.
DORIS:
20%,Mm.That's not bad.
NORM:
Right.It's worth considering.
TRAVEL AGENT:
This one gives you a lot of time for sightseeing.
NORM:
(提出另外一条旅行线路)What about this one! You go to more places... Guangzhou... Beijing... Xi'an... Shanghai... guilin
TRAVEL AGENT:
Yes,but you send more time travelling... about 50% of your time on the go.
DORIS:
It might be too tiring for us.
TRAVEL AGENT:
I think it might. (笑)Of course, you can always do a bicycle of China!
DORIS:
(笑)Oh, I don't think we're fit enough for that!

PART II - Vocabulary

fit [ ]健康
tiring[ ]使人感到疲劳
Hong Kong [] 香港
Kowloon [ ]九龙
sightseeing [ ]游览,观光
pay [ ](过去式和过去分词paid [ ])付款
spend [ ](过去式和过去分词spent [ ])花费(钱、时间)
by the end of the month[ ]到月底
How long does it take from Hong Kong to Guangzhou?[ ]
从香港到广州需要多少时间?
It takes...hours需要个......小时
I'm not 100 per cent sure[ ]我不是百分之百地有把握
It's worth condisering [ ]值得考虑,可以考虑
60 per cent of his time's spent sleeping [ ]
他把百分之六十的时间花在睡觉上了
This one looks good [ ]这一个看来不错
You can always do a bicycle tour of China[ ]
你总是可以骑自行车在中国旅行的
YOu get a 20 per cent discount[ ]可以给你打八折
YOu spend about 50 per cent of your time on the go [ ]
大约百分之五五的时间花在路上
PART III - The Lesson
1.PERCENTAGES 百分数
谈到百分数,英语说:per cent 主要用于以下两种结构:
a)x per cent of (something)
Eighty per cent of Australia's population lives on the coast.
(试比较:Four-fifths-of Australia's poulation lives on the coast.)
Twenty per cent of my time is spent travelling.
b)A x%discount/profit/loss
YOu can get a 20% discount on this air fare.
(这批货物/这张机票可以给你打八折。)
The company made a 10% profit/loss last year.
(这家公司去年有百分之十的利润/亏损。)

有些习语里也用百分数。例如:
I don't feel 100%.
I'm not 100% sure.
在广播里,你可以听到另外一些日常会话里使用百分数的例子,并且练习拿分数与百分数进行换算。例如:
Three quarters is 75%(seventy-five per cent).
A third is 33 1/3%(thirty-three and a third per cent).
2.OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY 其他表示数量的词语
There's not enough sugar in the tea.
There's just enough milk.
There's a lot of/lots of/plenty of time for sight-seeing.
I ate too much chicken.
YOu ate too many peanuts.
以上斜体字都是常用的数量词语,按所表示的数量多少依次排列。
注意:
Too much 后面跟不可数名词。例如:There's TOO MUCH sugar in the milk. TOO MANY后面跟可数名词。例如:There were TOO MANY people at the party.
有一个谚语是这样说的:
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
字面上的意思是:厨师太多,好汤也要做坏。实际上的意思是:人多手杂,反而坏事。
Enough若与名词连用,放在名词前面;若与形容词或副词连用,则放在后面。例如:
They've got ENOUGH money to buy a car.
She's old ENOUGH to go to school.
If we walk quickly ENOUGH we can catch the bus.
在广播里还有下面两个例子:
I don't think we're fit enough to do a bicycle tour.
Is he clever enough to pass his exams?
3.SOME USES OF THE - ING FORM OF THE VERB
动词-ING形式的某些用法
a)许多动词如果后面还接动词,后面这个动词就要用-ING形式。我们已经碰到过一些例子。如:
Would you mind turnING the music down?
在这一讲里,你还会听到在spend time 后面用动词的-ing形式:
On this tour you spend more time travelING than on most tours.
Twenty per cent of my time is spent travelING.
b)介词后面的动词要用-ING形式。我们已经碰到的例子有:
How about comING to dinner?
I was thinking of havING an outside reception.
Thanks for invitING US.
你在广播里还可以听到:
This tour give syou a lot of time for sightseeING.
C)请注意这个新的用法:
WORTH + VERB + -ING等等
广播里有这样一个例子:
This tour has a 20% discount.It's worth considerING.

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重点单词
  • faren. 路费,食物 vi. 过活,进展,进食 vi.
  • tiringadj. 令人疲倦的,麻烦的
  • invitingadj. 吸引人的,诱人的 动词invite的现在分词
  • normn. 标准,规范
  • populationn. 人口 ,(全体)居民,人数
  • quantityn. 量,数量,大量
  • spoiln. 战利品,奖品 v. 宠坏,溺爱,破坏,腐坏
  • discountn. 折扣,贴现率 vt. 打折扣,贴现,不重视,不全信