新概念英语第二册课文和笔记 Lesson 5:No wrong numbers 无错号之虞

【NEW WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS】　生词和短语

★pigeon　n. 鸽子
It's not my pigeon. 这不是我的过错＝None of my busness.

★message　n. 信息
information...不可数
leave sb. a message:给...留便条
I'll leave you a message.
take a message for sb:　替...捎口信
Can I take a message for you?
Can you take a message for me?

★cover　v. 越过
cover:覆盖
cover+距离：越过　　　cover the distance

★distance　n. 距离
distant:(a)远距离的
importance:(n.)重要　　important:(a.)重要的
different:(a.) 不同的　　difference：（n.)不同
keep distance:保持距离

★request　n. 要求，请求
request for: 对...有请求，有需求
I have a request for the cake.
request sb.to do sth...要求某人做．．＝ask sb.to do sth.
require sb.to do sth.
you are required/asked to do...

★spare part　备件

★service　n. 业务，服务
serve:(v.) 服务，接待
service:(n.)服务，业务
I am glad to be at your service. 我很乐意为您效劳．
——Thank you.
——You are welcome./Not at all./That's (all)right./(It's) My pleasure.
/That's ok.
——Thank you for your listening.
—No thanks.

【Text】

　　Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.

参考译文

　　詹姆斯.斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。平赫特离锡尔伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯.斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了只鸽子。昨天，一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫特带到锡尔伯里。这只鸟只用了3分钟就飞完了全程。到目前为止，斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。就这样，他开始自己的私人“电话”业务。

【课文讲解】

garage:车库，车行

another:其它的很多个中的一个
other: 其它的
the other:

Pinhurst is five miles (away) from Silbury.
Bus stop is only one mile from school/here.
Bus stop is only one mile (away).
--How for...? 多远
How far(away) is the bus stop?
How far is your Home(from here)?
My Home is ten miles away from here.

get a telephone:得到电话，安装电话
for:为了

just...完成时态

from...to...:从一个地点的另外一个地点

carry:带着，携带
I take my sister to the cinema.
I carried my son.
I carry the bag.
cover the distance:飞过那段距离
up to now:到现在为止(现在完成时)
request for:对...的需求
a great many:许多（＋可数名词复数）
a great number of：许多（＋可数名词复数）
...request and ...message(并列)
other:其它的
urgent:紧急的　　　sth.urgent:紧急的事情

another:其它中的一个（＋单数名词）
the other:两个之中的另外一个　　　one...the other
other:(a.)+n. 其它的
Some boys are playing football.and others are rowing/going boat.
One is watering the flowers,and the other is reading.
Can you show me another?