LEARNING NCE L49~61:
1.the mail writing format:(LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH Pb36)
1)envelope:
top-left:sending address(return address)
bottom-center:receiving person name
receiving person address
note:there is no mark on envelope!
2)letter:
top-right:sending address
sending date
center-left:receiving person name
receiving person address
note:there are marks in the content of letter above!
2."glance at" vs. "have a glimpse of"(LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH P643)
glance at:intentionally
have a glimpse of:unwittingly
3.now and again/now and then--occasionally(LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH P1027)
She meets her old byfreend for a drink now and then.
4.now that(LONGMAN DICTIONARY OF CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH P1027)(既然)
Now that it has stopped raining,let's go.
5.by chance:(refer to http://www.huanggao.net/course/40307/qg/YY_22_02_011/)
注意:by chance 和by accident 都意为偶然地,意外地。这时不能用fortune代替。如:
I met him by chance/accident. 我偶然碰到他。
另外chance一般指“好运”,fortune指“好运”或“坏运”都可以。
6.had hardly...when...:(http://edu.sina.com.cn/en/2005-04-01/32508.html)
1)They had no sooner got home than it began to rain. 他们一到家,天就下起雨来。
2)②______ got into the room,______ the telephone rang. 他一到家,电话就响了。
A. He hardly had;then B. Hardly had he;when
C. He had not;that D. Not had he;when
解析: 正确答案为B。当否定词hardly,scarcely,no sooner放在句首时,主谓要倒装
3)7. He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country.
1) hardly…when 一…就:hardly 引导的部分用过去完成时;when 引导的部分用一般过去时。如果把Hardly 放到句首,它引导的部分要主谓倒装。比较no sooner…than.
I had hardly left the house, when it began to rain.
We had hardly hung the picture on the wall, when it fell down. = Hardly had we hung the picture on the wall, when it fell down.
RECITING ST WORDS TO P230:
last week,reciting ST words the first time has stopped for my health reason.
According plan,next weekend I will have finished 150 pages' reciting words and have read P380(20 pages a day),and have finished L62~L76 of NCE lesson(2 lessons a day).
But,the health is first,all else is nothing,include this plan!