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I'll send written warning first.
我会先写信。
Wouldn't do much good.I can't read.
没用的，我不识字。
Can you not?
你不识字？
No.
不。
well, that's something...
那是我们该要加强的。
You're going to teach me to read, then?
你会教我读书？
If you like.
只要你愿意。
In what language?
愿意，哪种语言？
You're showing off now.
你现在很显眼。
That's right.Are you impressed yet?
对，加深印象了吧？
No. Why should I be?
没，我该要吗？
Do that standing on your head,and I'll be impressed.
倒立着讲，我印象会更深刻。
My kilt will fly up,but I'll try it.
我裙子会飞起来，不过我会试。
God, you certainly didn't learn any manners.
天哪，你的确没好好学礼貌。
The French and Romans have far worse manners.
法国人和罗马人礼貌更差。
You've been to Rome?
你去过罗马？
What was it like?
像什么样？
What does that mean?
什么意思？
Beautiful.
很美。
But I belong here.
但我属于这里。

妙语佳句
1.teach sb to do
教某人怎样做某事
teach oneself to do
自学
例如：
Black YingWang membership in the many, the teacher is not intended to teach you how to do may, all the learning process are to rely on oneself fumble.
黑鹰网的会员人数很多，老师是不可能手把手教你如何做的，所有学习过程都是靠自己摸索。
Faced with that kind of pressure, more and more teachers feel pressured to teach to state testing standards.
面对如此压力 ，越来越多的老师感到了来自教学标准测试考试的压力。
2.show off
炫耀；卖弄；显眼
例如：
The dance circle was awhirl with color as each dancer spun and jumped to show off his athletic skills.
每个舞者都以旋转和跳跃炫耀自己的舞技，服饰上旋转的色彩令人眼花缭乱。
He spent the summer as a shepherd-not a shepherd of souls, no, a shepherd of sheep, and not to show off or to be eccentric but happily, for love of the earth and the grass.
夏天他做了牧羊人——不是灵魂的耶稣基督，不是，是放羊的牧羊人，不是炫耀或装另类，而是因为对大地和草木的爱而感到开心快乐。
3.standing on your head
十分容易地；倒立着...
例如：
Can you imagine drinking a glass of water while standing on your head?
你能想象在倒立时喝下一杯水吗？
Moral: if you must drink baijiu, never, ever mix different kinds at the same sitting. Or you will awake to find a giant panda standing on your head.
教训：如果你必须喝白酒，千万不要把好多种白酒混在一起喝。不然等你酒醒的时候，就会感觉有一只大熊猫踩着你的头。
4.fly up
飞起；突然发怒；向上飞
此外"flurr, see red"也有这个意思。
例如：
Birds can fly up into the sky easily.
鸟儿可以轻易地飞到天上去。
In fact, the butterfly only crept with wretched body and shrunken wings in the remainder of its life, and never flurr…
实际上，这只蝴蝶在余下的时间都及其可怜的带着萎缩的身子和瘪塌的翅膀在爬行，它永远也没能飞起来……
5.belong
vi. 属于，应归入；居住；适宜；应被放置
例如：
Because he built me, I belong entirely to him.
因为他造就了我，我完全属于他。
考考你：
翻译：
1.你现在很显眼。
2.你的确没好好学礼貌。
上期答案：
1.Are you in the habit of riding off in the rain with strangers?
2.It was the best way to make you leave.