賴世雄英語書信通Unit 48：情人欲絕交函

February 15, 2005

Dear John,

I really don’t know how to begin this letter. Writing it is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I’ve been doing some thinking lately. As you yourself said, three more years is a long time and, well, I really don’t think it’s good for either one of us to expect the other to wait so long. In other words, I think you should go ahead and date other people and I will do the same.

I still care about you, but we are too far apart. Also, I’ve decided to stay in America for the summer, so it will be a very long time before I’ll see you again. I think it’s better for both of us to be free.

Love,

Joy

親愛的約翰：

我真的不知道如何下筆寫這封信。寫這封信是我所經(jīng)歷過必須做的最困難事情之一。我最近一直想一些事情。你自己曾說，三年是一段漫長的時間，而且，嗯，我真的不覺得期待對方等待這么久對我們?nèi)魏我环绞呛玫?。換句話說，我想你應(yīng)該放手去和別人約會，而我也會這么做。

我仍然在乎你，但是我們相隔太遠了。我也已經(jīng)決定暑假要留在美國，所以再見到你會是很久以后的事了。我想恢復(fù)自由身對我們兩個都比較好。

愛你的

喬依　敬上

2005年2月15日

字詞解說：

1. one.二the other.二(限定兩者中)一個……另一個……

one, . . another, , . the other. . .(限定三者中)一個·····一個

……另一個……

one/twofthree，二the others. . .(限定三者以上)一個/二個/

三個……其余的……

例:One of his two sons is a lawyer, the other is a doctor.

(他兩個兒子中一個是律師，另一個是醫(yī)師。)

That rich woman has three houses. One is in Taipei another is in Tainan, the other is in Los Angeles.

(那個富婆有三棟房子。一棟在臺北，一棟在臺南，另一棟在洛杉磯。)

One of the students stayed behind to ask the teacher a question, the others went home.

(一個學(xué)生留下來向老師請教問題;其他的人都回家去了。)

2. In other words, S+V換句話說，……

=To put it differently, S+V

=That is (to say)，S+V

例:Bob's a bit slow. In other words, he's stupid.

(鮑伯有點遲鈍。換句話說，他笨。)

3. go ahead放手去做，不要猶疑

例:Go ahead and start dinner without me if I'm late.

(諸位徑自開始用餐吧，我若遲到也不用等我。)

生.care

在意/乎……

例:He doesn't care about anyone but himself.

(他只顧自己，不顧別人。)