Quick work 工作高效 §
| quick adj. 动作的快 | fast adv. 速度的快 | soon adv. 时间快 |
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Dan Robinson has been worried all week.
| worried adj. 焦虑的，担心的 | worry vt. 使担心，发愁 |
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| She appears to be worried by/about something. 好像有什么事使她发愁。 | I worry about her constantly. 我一直在为她担心。 |
Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.
| local adj. 地方性的，当地的，本地的 | native n. 土著人 adj. 土生土长的 |
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In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
| call at (some place) 拜访某地 | Do we call at Rome?我们在罗马停留吗？ |
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| call on sb. 拜访某人 | He decided to pay a call on Tommy Cummings. 他决定去拜访汤米·卡明斯。 |
| tell / expect sb. to do sth. |
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| request / order sb. to do sth. |
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| sb. was told 某人被告知；有人告诉某人 |
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Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more.
| 过去好奇+想知道为什么 | 去过了警察局后 | 现在不再担心了 |
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| Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police | but he went to the station yesterday | and now he is not worried any more. |
| wonder 表示“想知道”时后面往往跟疑问词引导的宾语从句 |
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| want 用于被动语态时可以表示“想与（某人见面、谈话等）”或“缉拿，追捕” |
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At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.
| he was told | that his bicycle had been found. |
| 一般过去的被动 | 过去完成的被动（比过去先发生） |
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”
Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.
| Dan was surprised v.. 主谓 | Dan was surprised adj..主系表 |
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| 丹很惊讶(被弄的很吃惊) | 丹很惊讶(形容词大多来源于被动) |
| The glass is broken.玻璃被打碎了 | The glass is broken.玻璃是碎的 |
He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found.
| He was amused.他被逗乐了 | He was amused.他觉得搞笑 |
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~