A Day to Remember 難忘的一天
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
7. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
就在你接電話時，孩子把桌布從桌子上扯下來，將家中的陶瓷餐具半數(shù)摔碎，同時也弄傷了他自己。
語言點1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:off是介詞，意思是“離開”。兩個現(xiàn)在分詞短語smashing…和cutting…作結(jié)果狀語。In the process指的是“在smashing…crockery的過程中”。
語言點2:be on the phone不可直接譯作“在電話上”，而應(yīng)引申為“在接電話”。
8. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery,etc.
你急急忙忙掛上電話，趕去照看孩子和餐具。
語言點1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:and在本句中的作用表面上看是并列連接前后兩個分句，實際上是連接由一個主語發(fā)出的一前一后兩個連接十分緊密的動作。
語言點2:attend to sb.的意思是“照看某人”。
9. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt.
這時，飯又燒糊了。
語言點:meanwhile的意思是“與此同時”，強調(diào)動作同時發(fā)生。在get burnt這個短語里，get是系動詞，burnt是過去分詞，作表語。
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
7. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
就在你接電話時，孩子把桌布從桌子上扯下來，將家中的陶瓷餐具半數(shù)摔碎，同時也弄傷了他自己。
語言點1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:off是介詞，意思是“離開”。兩個現(xiàn)在分詞短語smashing…和cutting…作結(jié)果狀語。In the process指的是“在smashing…crockery的過程中”。
語言點2:be on the phone不可直接譯作“在電話上”，而應(yīng)引申為“在接電話”。
8. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery,etc.
你急急忙忙掛上電話，趕去照看孩子和餐具。
語言點1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:and在本句中的作用表面上看是并列連接前后兩個分句，實際上是連接由一個主語發(fā)出的一前一后兩個連接十分緊密的動作。
語言點2:attend to sb.的意思是“照看某人”。
9. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt.
這時，飯又燒糊了。
語言點:meanwhile的意思是“與此同時”，強調(diào)動作同時發(fā)生。在get burnt這個短語里，get是系動詞，burnt是過去分詞，作表語。