(单词翻译:单击)
情景对话
OK, my twin brother. Well, my twin brother is called Daniel, and he is four minutes younger than me. We were both born on the 5th of January, and I think that we kind of look a like except that he's a lot taller than me and he has very dark hair but we have the same eyes and nose and smile, at least that's what people say. Um, I wouldn't say we are especially close, mm, not really, maybe when we were younger but we weren't always in the same classes at school because my parents wanted us to be a bit more different. Um, we used to be dressed when we were babies the same, me in pink and him in blue, and we used to have a birthday cake that was always, half was pink and half was blue, and mine had ballet slippers on it and his a football or a rugby ball, but I guess we are quite different personalities. He's really, really outgoing, and just very different from me. At school I was always in the top classes getting A's and he was always failing in the bottom classes, but he was really sporty and I wasn't so people said we were very different.
嗯,我的双胞胎弟弟 。嗯,我的双胞胎弟弟叫丹尼尔,他比我晚出生4分钟 。我们是在1月5日出生的,我想我们长得很像,除了他比我高一些,还有他头发的颜色非常深,我们的眼睛、鼻子还有笑容都完全一样,至少别人都是这么说的 。嗯,我不会说我们非常亲近,嗯,其实不是,也许我们小的时候是这样,但是我们上学的时候不是一直都在一个班里,因为我父母希望我们能有所不同 。嗯,我们还是婴儿的时候会穿一样的衣服,我穿粉颜色的,而他穿蓝色的,我们曾经吃过一个生日蛋糕,也是一半粉色一半蓝色,我的那部分上面装饰着芭蕾舞鞋,他的则是美式足球或者叫橄榄球,我猜我们的个性大不相同 。他非常开朗外向,跟我非常不同 。上学的时候,我总是在最好的班级里,成绩一直是A,而他总是在最差的班里,他很喜欢运动,而我则不喜欢,所以人们会说我们非常不同 。
重点讲解
重点讲解:
1. used to do
过去常常;过去曾;曾经;
eg. I feel more compassion and less anger than I used to.
我觉得自己比过去多了些同情,少了些怒气 。
eg. People used to come and visit him every day.
人们过去每天都来拜访他 。
He used to be one of the professors at the School of Education.
他曾是教育学院的一名教授 。
2. different from
和……不同;异于;
eg. She believes that she has a fight to be herself and to be different from what others might expect of her.
她相信她有权走自已的路,而不是别人指望她怎么样,她就怎么样 。
eg. American English is significantly different from British English.
美国英语与英国英语有很大差异 。
eg. While choosing partners, people seem to be attracted easily by the person whose genes are too different from themselves.
人们在选择伴侣时,更容易被与自己基因差异大的人吸引 。