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You sure your father isn’t Hungarian?
你确定你父亲不是匈牙利人?

Well, if he is, he’s kept it a dead secret for years.
如果他是的话 现在这个秘密也随他埋葬了有些年头了。

And your mother?-English.
你母亲呢? -英国人。

So you’re a kind of half-breed?
那你算是个混血儿了?

Sit down.
坐吧

Thanks for agreeing to see me.Not at all.
感谢您同意和我会面 ，不客气。

I didn’t know you wrote plays for television.
我之前不知道你有替电视写剧本呢。

I don’t.I write crime novels.You must know that.
没有这回事 我写犯罪小说的 这你应该知道。

I had heard.
我听说过。

But sometimes they’re adapted for television by other people.
但小说会被改编成电视剧是很正常的事。

You know what the word adapted means, I take it?
我猜你知道改编这个词的意思吧?

Adapted?
改编?

They may not have such a word in Italian.
也许意大利语中没有这样一个词。

I speak English.-Good.
我现在说的是英语,好的。
Come and have a look at my special book room.
过来看一下我的私人书房吧
These are all my novels.
这些都是我写的小说。

You’ve read them, I suppose?
我猜你大概已经读过他们了吧?
Afraid not.
恐怕没有

Good God, no? What about this one?
老天 没有? 那这本呢?

Rat in a Trap?-No.
《笼中鼠》 没。

The Obelisk?-No.《
方尖塔》呢? 没。
Blackout?-No.
《大停电》? 没

Dead Fish? Afraid not.
《死鱼》? 恐怕没有。
God, you’re one in a million.
天哪 没读过我书的人的概率估计是百万分之一。

Am I?-Oh, absolute ...I’m very popular.
是吗? 绝对是 ，我可是著名作家
You see this shelf?
看见这书架吗?

重点讲解

重点单词：

1、suppose v.假设，认为，推想

Let us suppose (that) the news is true.

我们假设这消息是正确的。

I suppose he'll come back now.

我想他这会儿该回来了。

2、absolute adj.绝对的；完全的；专制的

相关短语：absolute value绝对值，实值

Absolute Alcohol 无水酒精；

例句：We have absolute confidence in victory.

我们有绝对胜利的把握。

3、adapt vt. 使适应，改编

相关短语:

adapt to something（使）适合；（使）适应

adapt for调整，使适合于；为…改编

I suggested he should adapt himself to his new conditions.

我认为他应该使自己适应新的情况。

She adapted the novel for movies.

她把小说改编为电影。

重点短语：

1、 agree to 同意，接受，允诺

We regret for the loss you have suffered and agree to compensate you by $500.

我们对你方遭受的损失深表歉意，同意向你们赔偿500美圆。

2、a kind of 一种，一类，某种，有一点

It started almost as a kind of game.

刚开始的时候几乎就像一场游戏。

考考你翻译下面句子。

1、你准猜不着我在大街上看见谁啦。

2、我完全赞成并乐于接受这一安排。

答案下期公布

上期答案：

1、He is a man of extraordinary will power.

2、他在室内装饰上花了很多钱。

3、Let me show you around our school.