Lesson2.docx

Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch? 早餐还是午餐?
课文内容:
It was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay in bed until lunchtime. Last Sunday I got up very late. I looked out of the window. It was dark outside. ‘What a day!’ I thought. ‘It's raining again. ’ Just then, the telephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. ‘I've just arrived by train, ’ she said. ‘I'ing to see you. ’
‘But I'm still having breakfast, ’ I said.
‘What are you doing?’ she asked.
‘I'm having breakfast, ’ I repeated.
‘Dear me, ’ she said. ‘Do you always get up so late? It's one o'clock!’
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 on Sundays,指每个星期日。星期几的前面用介词on。
2 What a day!多么糟糕的天气!这是一个省略的感叹句。完整的句子应该是What a day it is!英语中的感叹句常用what开头,后面紧跟一个名词或名词性短语(包括连系动词),然后是主语和谓语,句尾用感叹号。
3 I'ing to see 。
4 Dear me!天哪!这也是一个感叹句。
参考译文
那是个星期天,而在星期天我是从来不早起的,有时我要一直躺到吃午饭的时候。上个星期天,我起得很晚。我望望窗外,外面一片昏暗。“鬼天气!”我想,“又下雨了。”正在这时,电话铃响了。是我姑母露西打来的。“我刚下火车,”她说,“我这就来看你。”
“但我还在吃早饭,”我说。
“你在干什么?”她问道。
“我正在吃早饭,”我又说了一遍。
“天啊,”她说,“你总是起得这么晚吗?现在已经1点钟了!”
 
自学导读
课文详注 Further notes on the text
was Sunday. 那是个星期天。
在句子中,我们常常用it指时间、天气、温度或距离。这种it有时被称为“虚主语”
(empty subject),因为它没有实际意义。它之所以存在,是因为英语句子必须包含主语和谓语。请注意以下例句:
表示时间:
It is 8 o'clock.
8点了。
表示天气:
It's raining again.
又下雨了。
It is cold.
天气冷。
表示环境:
It was dark outside.
外面一片漆黑。
作为第3人称单数的中性代词,it可以指一件东西、一个事件或者用来指是什么人:
It was my aunt Lu