新概念英語第二冊聽力及翻譯Lesson 34

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Lesson 34 Quick work 破案“神速”
    First listen and then answer the question.
    聽錄音,然后回答以下問題。
    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
    station n.(警察)局
    most adv. 相當,非常
    Notes on the text 課文注釋
    1 the local police,當地警察(局)。
    2 call at,拜訪,也可用call on。
    3 he is not worried anymore,他不再擔心了。
    4 the policeman told him,警察告訴他。這是插入成分,在講故事時常用這種方式。
    5 the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away,那輛自行車在400英里以外的一個小村里被發(fā)現。pick up有“意外地找到”的意思。
    6 It is now being sent to his home by train. 現在正用火車給他運回家來。當被動語態(tài)用于現在進行時中,要在助動詞be后面加上-ing,再加上過去分詞。
    7 most surprised中的most有very的意思,常常與起形容詞作用的過去分詞連用。
    參考譯文
    丹?魯賓遜焦慮了整整一個星期。上星期二他收到當地警察局的一封信,要他到警察局去一趟。丹奇怪警察為什么找他,但昨天還是去了,結果他不再擔心了。在警察局里,一位面帶笑容的警察告訴他,他的自行車找到了。那位警察對他說,那輛自行車是5天前在400英里外的一個小村里發(fā)現的,現在正用火車給他運回家來。丹聽到這個消息后,驚奇萬分,但又感到非常好笑,因為他從未指望那輛自行車還能找到。這是20年前丹還是一個15歲的孩子時被人偷走的!