1. Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilized society.

结构：主系表：揭示punctuality的定义

      public affairs公共事务=社交活动

2. Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion:everything would be in a state of chaos.

特色：without it表示"条件"，nothing could ever....表示结果

     例：Without air,nobody will survive.

         Without you, I can't live.

3. Only in a Sparsely-populated rural community is it possible to disregard it.

特色：倒装

     如何操作：only+phrase或clause位于句首，原句的主语放在助动词之后。

     例：正常语序：Organizations can continue to succeed only by changing themselves.

         倒装语序：Only by changing themselves can organizations continue to succeed.

 

4. In ordinary living,there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.

5. The intellectual,who is working on some abstuse problem,had everything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand.

特色：词语：

   A> abstruse深奥的，过于高深的  abstract抽象的

      例：Maths is a mix of abstruse theory and detailed calculations.数学既有深奥的理论，又有精密的计算。（Longman Exam Dic.）

   B> coordinate协调（ordinate纵坐标）   collaborate合作（labor劳动）

   C> for the matter in hand为了手中的事   

6. He is therefore forgiven if late for a dinner party.

特色：省略句 if (he is) late...

 

7. But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.

特色：词语

    reproach严厉斥责

    reprimand正式谴责

8. It is hard for energetic,quick-minded people to waste time,so they are often tempted to finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment.

句子结构：so并列句

          it形式主语

特色：短语：be tempted to do sth.渴望做...

           can't resist the temptation to do sth.

           be eager to do sth.

9. If no accidents occur on the way,like punctured tyres,diversions of traffic,sudden descent of fog,they will be on time.

句子结构：真实条件句

10. They are often more industrious,useful citizens than those who are never late.

        

11. The over-punctual can be as much a trial to the others as the unpunctual.

含义理解：剖成两个分句来理解。

The over-punctual can be as much as the unpunctual.(as much as几乎跟...一样)

The over-punctual can be a trial to the others.(trial令人讨厌的人)

12. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greastest nuisance.

特色：词语替换：half an hour too soon= half an hour earlier

      nuisance(令人讨厌的事)

13. Some friends of my family had this irritating habit.

14. The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.

15. Then they arrived just when we wanted them. 

 

16.If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late.

结构：if 条件句+主句(it做形式主语，真主语to be.....)

词语难点：a fraction of一点儿  fraction(分数)

         例：He paused for a fraction of a second.她略停了一会儿。

             I got the shoes at a fraction of the original price.我低于原价很多买的这双鞋。

17. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.

结构分析：整句大结构：尽管...但是http://www/uc/myshow/blog/misc/gif/E___6782EN00SIGG.gif

          局部结构：...avoid the frustration of http://www/uc/myshow/blog/misc/gif/E___6736EN00SIGG.gif

          局部结构：...at the very moment when...

18.An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you.

19. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.

精彩升级：某人经历...who experienced sth.替换为：experience befell sb.

         the first time（含义精准）= when (含义宽广)

 

20. She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her.

结构特色：第一层：主句，+ since引导的原因状语从句

          第二层：since......中： 主句+that引导的宾语从句

           第三层：it......中：it做形式主语，真正主语是to kiss...and cause....

            第四层：with whom she was going to stay为定语从句，修饰the friends

词语难点：due:预定的，预期的

         例：The team are due to fly to Italy next month.

             The car is due for its annual service again.

21. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket.

22. To her horror he said that she was two hours too soon.

23. She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter.

24. He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail,not passengers.

25. The girl asked to see a timetable,feeling sure that her father could not have made such a mistake.

结构特色：feeling sure.....现在分词短语做原因状语

26. The porter went to fetch one and arrived back with the station master,who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a microscopic"o" beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station； this little"o" indicated that the train only stopped for mail.

结构特色：，who引导非限制性定语从句

27. Just at that moment the train came into the station.

28. The firl, tears streaming down her face,begged to be allowed to slip into the guard' van.

语言特色：tears streaming down her face是“名词+现在分词短语”构成的独立主格结构，做伴随状语

29. But the station master was adamant: rules could not be broken.

词语特色：adament

30. And she had to watch that train disappear towards her destination while she was left behind.