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My mom wasn't crazy about us raising chickens.
我妈妈对养鸡没多大兴趣
But I begged and pleaded.
可我再三央求
I told her I would take care of everything. And I did.
我跟她说我会打理一切 我说到做到了
Where's Clyde? Clyde?
阿扁在哪 阿扁
Hey, Clyde. What's the matter?
阿扁 怎么了
Are you okay? Aren't you hungry?
你还好吧 你不饿吗
Come on. Come here. What's wrong, baby?
过来 到这来 怎么了宝贝
Come here. Hey, you're not Clyde. You're Clydette.
过来 你不应该叫阿扁 叫阿珍才对
Mom! As it turned out, my hens laid more eggs than we could eat.
妈妈 结果 我的鸡下的蛋我们都吃不完
At first we tried to keep up...
一开始我们还想努力赶上进度
but after a month of boiling, frying and deviling...
但是在一个月的煎炒烹炸之后
like that movie The Blob,
就像电影《变形怪体》里一样
we were being overtaken by eggs.
我们被鸡蛋打败了

重点解释

生词快记:

overtake:；压倒

beg:祈求

plead:辩护；恳求

词汇精解:

raise:

【词语用法】

raise在美式英语中有“饲养，抚养”的意思，如 raise cattle（饲养牲口）和raise children（抚养孩子）。相对应的英式英语则是breed cattle和rear children；

raise在美式英语中还有“增加”的意思，通常指工资等的上升，如a raise in/of salary。英式英语中习惯用rise或increase去替换该词；

错句举例与错句分析 :

错句：It will slowly start to overheat and its respiration rate and its temperature will start to raise.

纠正：It will slowly start to overheat and its respiration rate and its temperature will start to rise.

翻译：它会慢慢的变得过热而且它的呼吸频率和温度会开始上升。

分析：raise是及物动词，后面要加宾语，应改为不及物动词rise。

常用词组:

be crazy about:疯狂

I used to be crazy about rock and roll.

我一度对摇滚乐很疯狂。

as it turns out:根据目前情形

As it turns out, that could have more to do with biology than misogyny.

事实证明，女人在天性上就不适合这里。

keep up:保持 继续 维持 跟上(时代)

You can't keep up the pretence any longer.

你不能再假装下去了。

语法剖析:

原句:I told her I would take care of everything.

我跟她说我会打理一切。

解析:I would take care of everything是一个宾语从句，整句话是一个双宾句子，her是间接宾语，从句I would take care of everything是直接宾语。

例句: They gave him a watch. 　　

这里的him 是间接宾语, a watch 是直接宾语, 这种间接宾语和直接宾语同时出现的情况叫双宾语。

He didn’t tell me when we should meet again. 　
他没有告诉我什么时候我们能再见面。 　　

Could you please tell me how you use the new panel.
你能告诉我怎么用这个新的操作盘吗 。　　

None of us knows where these new parts can be bought. 　　

没有人知道这些的新的零件能在哪里买到。