加载中…Lesson 33
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.
goes wrong 出错，出问题；走上邪路
An advertisement which begins with the magic word FREE can rarely go wrong.
我们怎么样帮助那些失足的青年呢？
How can we help those young people who go wrong?
We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.
get/go/be out of control 失去控制，无法控制
lose the control of
get sth. under control 控制住
What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.
choose to do sth. 愿意，偏要，宁愿做某事
他愿意怎么活着，与我无关。
How he chooses to live is not my business.
What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.
小专题：what引导名词性从句
1.what 作为名词性关系代词，可表人，可表物。=any…that /
Please tell me what you have done.
=Please tell me the things that you have done.
What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.
2. what 用作关系形容词，修饰后面名词。“what+名词”= “所有的……”
What people I met were very nice.
= All the people that I met were very nice.
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.
set up 引起，造成
lead to 导致
give rise to 引起，产生
bring about 引起，招致
result in 引起某种结果
touch off 引起，触发
trigger off 触发，引起
keep an eye on
=look after
=watch carefully
The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
It marked the end of the great tradition of ships with sails and the beginning of a new era.——Lesson25
mark the prelude to sth
= mark the beginning of sth
mark the turning point of sth
Mark the milestone of sth. 里程碑
The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
unforeseen
unpredictable
unanticipated
unexpected
catastrophe 大灾难
<astr>
disaster
astrology 占星术
astronomy 天文学
asterisk 星号 ***
astronaut 宇航员
cosmonaut
taikongnaut
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.
in the process 在此过程中，在进行中
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.
hang up
=put down
reduce…to tears 使哭了起来
reduce…to silence 使安静下来
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.
on a big scale 在很大程度上(规模上)
on a small scale 在很小程度上
on a nation wide scale 在全国范围内
on a world wide scale 在世界范围内
in a big range 在很大程度上
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.
pulled up 停车
=draw up
pull out of 驶出
=draw out of
pull up all of a sudden 急刹车
=brake hard
=put a brake on
=slam on the brake
=come to the brake
=halt
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.
on the move 在活动，在运动，在前进
on+the+n. “某种动作正在进行当中”
on the go 忙忙碌碌
on the recovery 正在恢复之中
on the turn 在转变当中
on the march 在前进中
on the air 在播放中
on the rise 正在上升
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.
benefited from/by 从…收益，得到好处
Gist of the text
Troubles never come single.
祸不单行
顶