Quick work ^工作高效 §

反语（irony） ^{反语即讲反话，故意使用同本意相反的说法。}

• How great you are to bully a little girl! ‘You are so unselfish!’ Helen said angrily.
• ‘Oh, you are so early! It’s only 11 in the morning.’ the teacher said.

quick ^{adj. 动作的快}

• have a quick meal ^快餐
• quick freeze ^速冻
• She gave a quick response.

Dan Robinson has been worried all week.

worried ^{adj. 焦虑的，担心的}

• She appears to be worried by/about something. ^{好像有什么事使她发愁。}
• I often fish for hours without catching anything. But this does not worry me.

Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.

local ^{adj. 地方性的，当地的，本地的}

• local news ^当地新闻
• local color ^{当地色彩, 地方色彩}
• local people ^当地人
• local call ^市话 / a long distance call ^长途电话
• an overseas / international call ^{国际长途 I’d like to make an overseas/international call.}

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？}

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}

• She wondered who that man was.
• I wondered what had happened.

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”}

• Please wait a minute. I’m wanted on the phone. ^{请等一下，有我的电话。}
• This is the man (who is) wanted by the police.
• You are wanted on the phone.
• The boss wants you in his office now.
• Don’t be nervous. You are wanted here. ^{别紧张，你在这儿很受欢迎。}
• The fugitive is wanted by the police. ^{那名逃犯被警方通缉。}

《越狱》
I’m a wanted man. Okay? If the police show up here, they’ll take me back to prison, and you know what? That’s fine. 
But my little girl right here? She is sick, and she’s going to be left alone. And I can’t let that happen, so can you please let us go?

not...any more = no more ^{不再, 再也不}

he is not worried any longer. = … he is no longer worried.= … he is worried no more.

• I don’t talk to you any more. ^{我不再会对你谈话了}
• I walked no more. ^{我不再走了}
• I do not live here anymore. ^{我不再住在这里。}
• She is not afraid any more. ^{她不再害怕了。}
• We can not wait any longer. ^{我们不能再等下去了。}
• He no longer works here. ^{他不再在这里工作了。}
• I will go there no more. ^{我再也不去那里了。}

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~