Quick work 破案"神速"
Dan Robinson has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
【課文翻譯】
丹.魯賓遜焦慮了整整一個星期。上星期二他收到當?shù)鼐炀值囊环庑�，要他到警察局去一趟。丹奇怪警察為什么找他，但昨天還是去了，結(jié)果他一再擔心了。在警察局里，一位面帶笑容的警察告訴他，他的自行車找到了。那位警察對他說，那輛自行車是5天前在400英里外的一個小村里發(fā)現(xiàn)的，現(xiàn)在正用火車給他運回家來。丹聽到這個消息后，驚奇萬分，但又感到非常好笑，因為他從未指望那輛自行車還能找到。這是20年前丹還是一個15歲的孩子時被人偷走的!
【生詞和短語】
station n. (警察)局
most adv. 相當，非常
【知識點講解】
1 In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
上星期二他收到當?shù)鼐炀值囊环庑�，要他到警察局去一趟�?/p>
call 后加不同的介詞，表達的意思不盡相同。常見的搭配方式有：
call back 回電話, 收回 call in 召集, 召來, ... call on 號召, 拜訪, 請求
call out 出動, 召集, 大聲叫喊 call at 拜訪 call up 給 ... 打電話...
I'm very busy now. Please call back later.
我現(xiàn)在很忙，請過一會兒再來電話吧。
He is ill; you should call in the doctor right away.
他病了，你應(yīng)該立即請大夫來。
Tomorrow I'll pay a call on him.
明天我將要去拜訪他。
2 Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.
那位警察對他說，那輛自行車是5天前在400英里外的一個小村里發(fā)現(xiàn)的，現(xiàn)在正用火車給他運回家來。
(1)本句中，the policeman told him是個插入成分，在講故事時經(jīng)常使用這種表達法。
(2)pick up 此處是“意外找到”地意思撿起，還有收集、 繼續(xù)、 得到、 接人、偶然結(jié)識等意思
He bent down to pick up the coin.
他彎下腰來，撿起硬幣。
She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.
她到法國居住後很快就學會了法語。
(3)five miles away這一類結(jié)構(gòu)可以直接作定語，放在被修飾詞后面。
I live in the house five miles away。
我家離這里有五英里遠。
3 It is now being sent to his home by train.
現(xiàn)在正用火車給他運回家來。
當被動語態(tài)用在現(xiàn)在進行時中，要在助動詞be后面加上-ing,再加上現(xiàn)在分詞。
The building is being repaired by the workers.
工人們正在裝修大樓。
4 Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.
丹聽到這個消息后，驚奇萬分。
most surprised中的most不是表示最高級，而是相當于very，作形容詞使用，常常與起形容詞作用的過去分詞連用。
When I heard this news, I was most shocked.
當我聽到這個消息后，我萬分震驚。
This is the area that attracts the most attention.
這是極受關(guān)注的地區(qū)。
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