新概念第二册课文学习笔记31.doc

§ Lesson 31 ess story 成功者的故事更多学****请加入,学****QQ 群: 192777068 Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Before he retired, Frank was the head ofa very large pany, but as a boy he used to work ina small shop. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own. In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. Ina few years the small workshop had e a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to ess. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle! 参考译文昨天下午弗兰克. 霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历. 在退休前, 弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理, ,,于 1958 年买下了自己的一个小铺子. 20 多岁的时候, 弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件. 那时他有两个帮手. 几年之后, 小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有 728 人的大工厂. 弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路,,. 【 New words and expressions 】生词和短语★ retire He is getting old , He is going to retire. 他越来越老,他打算退休了 retire=stop working=stop doing this I'm going to retire next year. 我明年会退出影坛或歌坛 I'm so tired that I'm going to retire now. (retire = go to bed) ★ company firm 商行 corporation 责任公司 limited corporation 有限责任公司缩略形式: He works i