《新概念英语》第二册第31课  success story  成功者的故事
【课文】
First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
What was Frank's first job?

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own. In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!

【课文翻译】
昨天下午弗兰克.霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作14个小时。他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。20多岁的时候，弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件。那时他有两个帮手。几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路，微笑了。他正笑着的时候门开了，他的妻子走了进来。她叫他去修理孙子的自行车。

【生词和短语】
retire  v. 退休
company  n. 公司
bicycle  n. 自行车
save  v. 积蓄
workshop  n. 车间
helper  n. 帮手，助手
employ  v. 雇佣
grandson  n. 孙子

【知识点讲解】
1  He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。
（1）save v. 积蓄，挽救
相关短语:

save one's life 救了某人的生命  

save one's face 挽会面子  

save money 存钱
He saved my life 他挽救了我的生命。
I have saved up for many years. 我已经存了好几年的钱了。

（2）of one's own
own此处作名词使用，意为自己的东西；做形容词时是指自己的, 特有的；动词时表示拥有的意思。
用one's own还是of one's own由被修饰词的位置决定，如果被修饰名词在前边，用of one's own,如果被修饰名词在后边，用one's own。
my own book =The book is of my own

2  Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。
used to do 过去常常，但是现在不做
My teacher used to live there. 我的老师过去住在那（现在不住了）。

3  in his twenties
in one's -ies 在某人几十岁的时候
in my fifties 在我五十多岁的时候
In his fifties,he learned the second language.
在他50多岁的时候，他学习了第二门外语。

in the 1980s 在二十世纪八十年代
I worked/began the job in the 1990s.
我在二十世纪九十年代开始的工作。

4  In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。

①表示在过去某一时刻或动作以前完成了的动作，也可以说过去的时间关于过去的动作。即“过去的过去”。By nine o’clock last night, we had gotten 200 pictures from the spaceship.
到昨晚9点钟，我们已经收到200 张飞船发来的图片。

②表示由过去的某一时刻开始，一直延续到过去另一时间的动作或状态，常和for, since构成的时间状语连用。
He said he had worked in that factory since 1949.
他说自从1949年以来他就在那家工厂工。

③在含有定语从句的主从复合句中，如果叙述的是过去的事，先发生的动作常用过去完成时。
I returned the book that I had borrowed.
我已归还了我借的书。

【上期作业回顾】
翻译以下三个句子。
1 一看见那些警官，他们便逃跑了。
→At the sight of the police officers, they ran off.
2 我不能让这些水白白流掉。
→I can't just let the water run to waste.
3 就英文而言，它并不像你所认为的那样难。
→So far as English is concerned, it is not so difficult as you might think.

【课后作业】
翻译以下三个句子。
1 孩子们应学会储蓄。
2 尽管她父亲在公司里，但她那份工作却是靠自己得到的。
3 她丢失的钥匙找到了。