Skills building 3: writing a dialogue

1.       What’s up, Mum?  出了什么事，妈妈？

What’s up 是一种非正式的口语，相当于What’s happening ? / What’s the matter?（指不寻常和不愉快的事）。up表示“发生，进行”之意。

(1)    What’s up? Why are they crying?

(2)    Mother looks unhappy. What’s up?

    Ex：— Hi, Jack! I’m glad I came across you here.

—             , Alice.                              (2004, 朝阳区统考)

A. Who is that speaking?            B. How about another cup of tea? 

C. Why? What’s up?                 D. What can I do for you?

2.       I’m sorry, but you must get it tided up before you go out today.

get sb/sth. done  使人做… （过去分词做宾语补足语，与宾语具有逻辑上的动宾关系，这个结构相当于have sb/sth done）。

(1) You’d better take Tom to hospital and get him examined.

(2) I’m trying to get published.

(3) get one’s bicycle repaired

(4) get your toys tidied up

tidy up  整理，收拾；使整洁

(1) We’ll have to tidy up these papers before we have dinner.

(2) When are you going to tidy your room up?

3.       Don’t you talk to me like that! 你不要那样跟我说话！

该句为含有主语的祈使句。祈使句通常不出现主语，用来表示请求、命令、号召、建议、祝愿或叮嘱等。但有时为了强调、对比或表示说话人发怒、生气等感情，或仅仅为了明确指出是向谁提出请求或命令，主语可以表示出来。

(1)    You open the door.

(2)    John stand and the rest of you sit down.

(3)    You be quiet!

(4)    Everyone sit down, please!

(5)    Don’t you forget to bring the key.

(6)    Don’t you be careless.

Ex：— Sorry, Joe, I don’t mean to …

    — Don’t call me Joe, I’m Mr. Parker to you, and      you forget it!

       A. do      B. didn’t      C. did      D. don’t

4.       Mum, two hours won’t make a bit of difference.

won’t make a bit of difference = will make no difference  产生不了什么差别/造不成任何影响。

make a difference 产生差别/造成影响/起重要作用

make no/some/much/(a) little/any/all the difference

译：(1) 这场雨对比赛不会有太大影响。

(2) 你今天去还是明天去没什么差别。

5.       But I don’t think you are being fair at all. 该句用了否定转移。谓语为think, believe, suppose, expect等表示个人见解的词时，若其宾语从句是否定形式，则习惯上把not 转移主句中上述动词之前，这在英语中叫做“否定转移”。

* 1)在上述情况下若主句为第一人称，后跟反意疑问句，应针对从句进行反问，且把not考虑在内。

  2)若主句主语为第二、三人称，后跟反意疑问句时，则应根据主句来进行反问。

e.g.  I don’t think he will come, will he?

I don’t believe she is at home, is she?

They don’t suppose we are serious, do they?

   Ex: (1) Mr. Black doesn’t believe his son is able to design a digital camera,           ?

A. is he    B. isn’t he    C. doesn’t she    D. dose she    （2002，上海）

(2) I don’t suppose anyone will volunteer,           ?  

   A. do I    B. don’t I    C. will they    D. won’t they       （2001，上海）

Project. Writing an advice letter

1. as though/as if “似乎”、“好象”，通常引导方式状语从句。注意该方式状语从句有陈述语气和虚拟语气之分：

 （1）若“似乎、好象”之事是会发生或发生的可能性比较大，就用陈述语气。

It looks as though/as if it is going to rain.

She speaks with an accent of Scotland as though she comes from that part of Britain.

 （2）若“似乎、好象”之事是不会发生或发生的可能性比较小，就用虚拟语气。

When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as though/as if it were broken.

  译：整个事情我都记得，就好象这事就发生在昨天。

1.       insist vt/vi 坚持认为，坚持要求（做），坚决主张

insist on sth/doing sth/one’s doing sth（此时on也可以换成upon）

e.g. (1) The man insisted on finding a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby.

(2) She insisted upon my telling the truth.

(3) He insisted on his innocence.

insist that sb (should) do sth

insist that sth/sb (should) be done

e.g. (1) I insist that he (should) leave at once.

     (2) He insisted that he be sent to the front.

但有时insist that …从句中也用陈述语气

e.g. He insisted that he hadn’t stolen the money.

   译：（1）我们班主任坚持要求我们在星期一早晨穿校服。

Our class teacher                                    on Monday mornings.

（2）他们一定要留我在那儿吃晚饭。

    They                                         there for supper.

2.       suggest vt

(1) 建议

                 n

      suggest     (one’s) doing / suggest sb doing

                 that sb (should) do

e.g. 1) suggest a swim in the lake

   2) suggest a visit to the Great Wall

   3)They suggested putting the meeting off.

   4)He suggested us/our starting early. / He suggested that we should start early.

   (2) 暗示，使想起（后接宾语从句用陈述语气，不用should）

His pale face suggested that he was ill.

His dark skin suggests that he is from Africa.

3.       like crazy “发疯似的，拼命的”，作状语

(1) He ran like crazy.

(2) 近来他一直在拼命地学习。

(1)    水手们在抽水机旁拼命地抽水。

4.       forbid vt. 禁止，不许 forbad,forbidden

         sb sth

forbid    sb to do sth/forbid sb from doing

         one’s doing sth

e.g. (1) Her parents forbad their marriage.

(2) Smoking/Parking is forbidden!

(3)My father forbad me to enter the Internet Café.

(4) The government forbids hunting and killing wild animals.

译：1）禁止吐痰！（spit vi 吐痰）

    2）我爸爸禁止我网上聊天。

    3）The teachers forbid the use of a calculator in the exam.

    4）图书管理员禁止将这些书拿出阅览室。

       The librarian forbad these books                     out of the reading room.

forbid 可用语被动结构

Hunting and killing wild animals is forbidden by the government.

  These books were forbidden to be taken out of the reading-room.