Lesson 34 Quick work破案“神速”被动语态

Quick work ^工作高效 §

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 any more.

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.

找到车 → 写信 → 邮寄几天 → Dan 收到信（上周二） → 担心一周（7天） → 昨天去警局。也就是说，车被找到的时间应该 早于上周二至少 3–5 天。所以 “five days ago” 这个设定太短。two weeks ago / ten days ago 较合理！

pick up ^{（偶然地、意外地）找到、获得、学会}

• I’ve picked up a bad cold. ^{我(意外的)得了重感冒。}= I caught/had/have got/had got/got a bad cold.
• I picked up some French while traveling in Paris. ^{在巴黎游览期间我学了几句法语。}
• He picked up the book in a small library. ^{他在一个小图书馆发现了那本书。}
• he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets.

... miles away ^{这一类结构可以直接做定语, 放在被修饰词后面。}

• The school is five miles away. ^{学校在五里外}
• the school three miles away ^{三英里外的学校}
• I live in a house which is five miles away. = I live in a house five miles away.

It is now being sent to his home by train.^{现在进行时被动}

现在进行时被动 ^{“am/is/are + being + done”}

• The clavichord is being repaired by a friend of my father’s.

Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.

He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found.

小疑问：文章开头说 Dan Robinson 一整周都在担心 (worried all week)。 随后描述是上周二 (last Tuesday) 收到的信。 Dan 昨天 (yesterday) 才去警察局。 而自行车是五天前 (five days ago) 被找到的。 如果“昨天”是周三，那么“五天前”就是上周六。这样一来，在上周二收到信时，自行车还没有被找到，这显然不合理。通过页面最下方的“联系我们”将您的理解后的时间线发邮件，我们一起交流。谢谢~