英语口语五句学习法必备句型06：It takes sb.(some time) to do sth

 英语口语五句学习法必备句型06：It takes sb.(some time) to do sth

  It takes sb.(some time) to do sth 某人花了…时间做某事   记得一次让我的一个学生造句。我问她：请你翻译一下这句话——“我花了很长时间才明白”。她回答说：I understand it with a long time.可不是吗？with 就有"用"的意思。但是人家美国人就是不这么说啊，怎么办？改吧，要培养英语的思维，可不是一天两天的事。所以，今天就和Steven开始搞定It 开头的系列句型吧！   精品五句   普通句 It takes me a long time 我花了好长时间。   次级高手句 It takes me quite a long time。 我花了相当长的时间   高手句 It takes me quite a long time to understand. 我花了相当长的时间来理解   超级高手句 It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting。 我花了相当长的时间才理解那幅画的意义。   专家句 It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by Picasso。 我花了相当长的时间才理解毕加索的那幅画的意义。   解句   It takes me quite a long time to understand(核心句） +the meaning of the paining by Picasso.(加个理解对象试试看。）   编辑部的故事 （One of their partners gave Tangle two tickets to an art work exhibition.Steven accompanied him to go there.) (他们的合作伙伴送给Tangle两张艺术作品展的票。Steven陪他一起去那儿。）   Tangle：Hey,Whose work are you looking at? 嘿！你在看谁的作品？   Steven: Picasso's.But I hate him 毕加索的。但是我讨厌他。   Tangle: Why? 怎么了？   Steven: 'Cuz he makes me look like stupid.I don't even have an idea about what he wanted to convey by the works. 因为他的作品总是使我看起来很蠢。我甚至对他想通过作品表达的思想一无所知。   Tangle: Well,it look me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by him 嗯，我也是花了好长时间才明白他作品的含义的。   Steven: But I don't even understand a single work of his.Does that mean I don't have a taste for art? 但是，他的一部作品我都不懂。这是不是说明我没有艺术品味？   Tangle: Not really,you have a very elegant dressing style.Also you have a very good sense of colours. He is an abstractismartist.His works are always hard to understand. 不见得。你对服装的品味很高雅。还有你对颜色的感觉也很好。他是抽象派的画家。他的作品总是很难理解的。   Steven: Some of his works look like my 5-year-old cousin's.But I don't even understand. 他的一些作品看起来有些像我5岁的表弟画的。但是我还是不能理解。   Tangle: Believe me! You won't suddenly understand his works by keeping on saying that. 相信我！你一直这样说下去，也不会突然明白他的作品的。