新概念英語(yǔ)第二冊(cè)聽(tīng)力及翻譯Lesson 34

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Lesson 34 Quick work 破案“神速”
    First listen and then answer the question.
    聽(tīng)錄音,然后回答以下問(wèn)題。
    How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?
    Dan Robinson has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is nowbeing sent to his home by train. Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found, It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
    New words and expressions 生詞和短語(yǔ)
    station n.(警察)局
    most adv. 相當(dāng),非常
    Notes on the text 課文注釋
    1 the local police,當(dāng)?shù)鼐?局)。
    2 call at,拜訪,也可用call on。
    3 he is not worried anymore,他不再擔(dān)心了。
    4 the policeman told him,警察告訴他。這是插入成分,在講故事時(shí)常用這種方式。
    5 the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away,那輛自行車(chē)在400英里以外的一個(gè)小村里被發(fā)現(xiàn)。pick up有“意外地找到”的意思。
    6 It is now being sent to his home by train. 現(xiàn)在正用火車(chē)給他運(yùn)回家來(lái)。當(dāng)被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)用于現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行時(shí)中,要在助動(dòng)詞be后面加上-ing,再加上過(guò)去分詞。
    7 most surprised中的most有very的意思,常常與起形容詞作用的過(guò)去分詞連用。
    參考譯文
    丹?魯賓遜焦慮了整整一個(gè)星期。上星期二他收到當(dāng)?shù)鼐炀值囊环庑牛骄炀秩ヒ惶?。丹奇怪警察為什么找他,但昨天還是去了,結(jié)果他不再擔(dān)心了。在警察局里,一位面帶笑容的警察告訴他,他的自行車(chē)找到了。那位警察對(duì)他說(shuō),那輛自行車(chē)是5天前在400英里外的一個(gè)小村里發(fā)現(xiàn)的,現(xiàn)在正用火車(chē)給他運(yùn)回家來(lái)。丹聽(tīng)到這個(gè)消息后,驚奇萬(wàn)分,但又感到非常好笑,因?yàn)樗麖奈粗竿禽v自行車(chē)還能找到。這是20年前丹還是一個(gè)15歲的孩子時(shí)被人偷走的!