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第一單元 CHILDHOOD ANDSCHOOL DAYS

第一部分 原文
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第二部分 重點(diǎn)語匯

million
I could eat about a million and a half of these.
我能吃下去無數(shù)塊巧克力。
Million 在美國人的日常用語中經(jīng)常見到，用夸張的語氣表示數(shù)量的不勝枚舉。例如本句中，阿甘形容自己可以吃下“一百五十萬塊巧克力”，意即百吃不厭。
1. 阿甘在形容自己是多年來第一批訪問中國的美國人時(shí)，是這樣講的：
I was the first American to visit the land of China in like a million years or something like that.
我是幾百萬年來第一批訪問中國的美國人。
2. 當(dāng)一個美國人在形容自己即將到來的婚禮是多么興師動眾時(shí)，他可以這樣表述：
It’s like a million people flying in around the world.
似乎有幾百萬人從世界各地飛來參加我們的婚禮。
3. 類似的表達(dá)方法還有“thousand”，“hundred”，甚至“twenty”。
1) Our house had been in Mama’s family since her grandpa’s grandpa’s grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago.
自打一千年前媽媽的爺爺?shù)臓敔數(shù)臓敔斪娓钙筮^海來到這里，這座房子就屬于媽媽的家族。
2) I’ve told you a hundred times that today I’ll come back late.
我給你講過無數(shù)次了，今天我會晚些回來。
tell
There’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes.
看人們腳上穿的鞋子就能判定很多事情。
指“判斷”、“斷定”、“辨別”，類似的用法如下：
1. Yes, I did have plastic surgery. How can you tell?
是的，我確實(shí)做過美容手術(shù)，你怎么看出來的？
2．And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.
在沙漠里的時(shí)候，太陽升起來，我看不出天地的分界。
3. Even though it was so dark I could still tell it was you.
盡管很黑，我仍然辨認(rèn)得出你來。
4. tell (when/how) It’s hard to tell when we can finish the work.
我們什么時(shí)候能完成工作還很難說。
5. tell (by/from) You can tell by the way it walks that the cat has been injured.
看那只貓走路的姿勢就知道它受傷了。
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