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When the family went to India it was arranged that Stephen should come and live with us for a year.

我们一家到了印度 史蒂芬也来和我们一起住一年

He decided it would be nice that we should have...Scottish dancing in the evening.

他认为我们 晚上应该跳苏格兰舞是很好的

Mind you, this was quite an ordinary house.but we had rather a lot of room and a large hall.

提醒你一下 这是一间很普通的房子 但是我们有很多房间和一个大厅

and so we bought some records.and a book about what to do and Stephen took charge.

我们买了一些唱片 和一本消遣的书 史蒂芬开始主持

And he insisted you put on a jacket and a tie.And then he was the master of the proceedings.

他坚持让你穿夹克打领带 他来当晚会的主持

And Stephen took it very seriously.But then he liked dancing, you see?

史蒂芬很认真地在做 但他喜欢跳舞 发现了吗

There were four physicists in my year Gordon Berry.Richard Bryan.Stephen.myself.

有四位物理学家与我同级 戈登·贝瑞 里查德·布莱恩 史蒂芬 和我自己

I first remember Stephen.on an occasion when Gordon and I went up after dinner to his room to try to find him.

我对史蒂芬最初的印象是 有一次 我和戈登吃完饭去史蒂芬的房间找他

And Stephen was up there with a crate of beer slowly drinking his way through it.

史蒂芬正在那里 那儿有一箱啤酒 慢慢地喝着啤酒

He was only 17. He couldn't legally go into a pub.He'd gone up to Oxford ridiculously early.

他只有17岁 不允许去酒吧 他很小就去了牛津大学读书

We used to have what we called a gathering net.

我们常常聚会

We used to organize a beer party and various things like that to gather all these collar as many freshman as we could get to get them to join the Boat Club.

组织啤酒派对或者类似的活动 以邀请尽可能多的新生 让他们加入划船俱乐部

And that's how we collected him, you see?

我们就是这样认识他的

重点讲解

1、ordinary

平常的；普通的；一般的；平凡的

I strongly suspect that most ordinary people would agree with me.

我坚定地认为绝大部分老百姓会赞同我的观点。

It has 25 calories less than ordinary ice cream.

它所含热量比普通的冰激凌少了25卡路里。

平庸的；平淡无奇的

I'm just a very ordinary, boring normal guy.

我只是一个颇为平庸无趣的普通人。

Your life since then must have seemed very ordinary.

你的生活从那时起一定非常平淡无奇。

不寻常的；非凡的；特殊的

The boy's knowledge was out of the ordinary.

这个男孩懂得的知识非比寻常。

I've noticed nothing out of the ordinary.

我没注意到什么特别之处。

2、go up

（价格、数量或水平）上涨，上升

Interest rates went up.

利率上调了。

The cost has gone up to $1.95 a minute.

该项费用已上涨到每分钟1.95美元。

爆炸；突然燃烧起来

I was going to get out of the building in case it went up.

我怕大楼起火，正打算要跑出去。

The hotel went up in flames.

这座宾馆燃起熊熊大火。