新概念英語第二冊逐句精講語言點 第5課(2)
課文內(nèi)容：
Mr James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now hehas just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurstis only five miles from Silbury, but Mr Scott cannotget a telephone for his new garage, so he has justbought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carriedthe first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The birdcovered the distance in three minutes. Up tonow, Mr Scott has sent a great many requestsfor spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way,he has begun his own private telephone service.
精講筆記：
4.The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
這只鴿子只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。
語言點 cover在此作“越過”講，常用固定表達(dá)方式如下：sht./sb. cover the distance of+距離，意為“某人/某物走過或越過了……(距離)”
The Red Army covered the distance of 25,000 kilometres.紅軍進(jìn)行了兩萬五千里長征。
5.Up to now, Mr Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgentmessages from one garage to the other.
到目前為止，斯科特先生已經(jīng)用鴿子從一個修理部向另一個修理部傳送了大量索取備件的信函和其他緊急信件。
語言點1 uo to now=so far=up till now到目前為止，后常接現(xiàn)在完成時。
語言點2 urgent message緊急通知，加急電報;written message書面通知;greeting message賀電;賀信
語言點3 復(fù)習(xí)：a great many=a lot of=a great number of大量，許多
6.In this way, he has begun his own private telephone service.
用這種方式，他開始了他自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務(wù)。
語言點 總結(jié)有關(guān)way的短語：
1)in this way用這種方式 6)in a family way懷孕了，快有小孩了
2)in the way擋路 7)on the way在……路上
3)out of the way讓路 8)by the way順便說一句，順便問一句
4)in a way從某種意義上 9)no way沒戲
5)in a friendly way以一種友好的方式 10)get one's own way隨心所欲
