新概念第三册经典句子 第24课:A Skeleton in the Cupcoard

第24课 A Skeleton in the Cupcoard


1、 We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person of family has someterrible secret which has been concealed fromstrangers for years.
在小说中，我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家庭，却有着某种多年不为人所知的骇人听闻的秘密。
表面上： seemingly/ apparently/ ostensibly/ professedly

2、 The English language possessesa vivid saying to describe this sort of situation.
英语中有一个生动的说法来形容这种情况。
引用的表达。。

3、 The reader’s hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages ofthe novel that he heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。

4、 To varyingdegrees, we all have secrets which we do not want evenour closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard.
我们在不同程度上艘有一些甚至连最亲密的朋友也不想让他们知道的秘密，但是却极少有人有橱中骷髅。
注意vary词的意思。

5、 I opened the cupboard door andthen stood in front of it petrified.
我打开柜门，站在柜门前一下惊呆了。
体会一下 petrified 的位置和表达的感情。。。

6、 Dropping my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George.
我扔下西服冲下楼去告诉乔治。
划线处的Ving用法，dash比rush表达更加快速和突然，很好地证明了前面的petrified。