Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
garage n. 车库, 车行（英美读音不同）
| another + 单数名词 | Can you show me another? |
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| other + 名词 adj.其它的(可加单/复数名词) | They were just like any other young couple.他们那时就和其他任何年轻夫妇一样。 |
| others pron.其他人 | Others have met similar problems.其他人遇到过同样的问题。 |
| the other 两个之中的另外一个 | Two large baskets at the other side of the square. |
Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.
| The bus stop is only one mile (介词 from 在这里表示距离上相隔) (作“距…”、“离…”讲，常与 away 连用) |
from school. |
| from here. | |
| away. | |
| It is far (away) from here. | She has been away from home for 5 days now. |
get a telephone 得到电话(安装电话)
- This company installs phones for businesses.
- We need to set up the phone in the new office.
- The technician will connect the phone lines tomorrow.
- I activated the new phone line yesterday.
- The IT team will deploy the phones throughout the building.
- The electrician hooked up the phones to the main system.
- He configured the phone system to work with our network.
- They mounted the phone on the wall in the conference room.
| How far...? 多远（对距离提问） | How long ...? 多远（时间\长度的提问） |
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Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.
| carry v. 带着, 携带（其强调所携带的东西不会着地） | take v. 带着(走) |
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I take my sister to the cinema. |
from…to… 表示从一个地方到另一个地方
- He looked at the girl from head to foot.
- The news spread from house to house. 家家户户都得知了这条消息。
The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
cover the distance 飞过那段距离
- The searchers spread out to cover the area faster. 搜索人员分散开来，好更快地搜索这一地区。
- It took three applications of paint to cover the graffiti. 刷了三道油漆才盖住了涂鸦。
- Leftover food and unwashed dishes cover the dirty counters. 剩饭和没洗的盘子铺满了肮脏的台面。
| in + 时间(耗时) | in three minutes. 三分钟后(配合表将来的词) |
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| under + 时间 | under three minutes. 不到三分钟。 |
| within + 时间(时间内) | I am positive she'll be crying within three minutes.我肯定她三分钟内就会哭了。 |
Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
up to now 直到现在为止
- Up to now he's been very quiet.到目前为止，他一直很安静。
- Up to now, he has not been very hard-working. 到目前为止，他一直不是很用功。
- Up to now, the bank has revised its estimate very little. 至今为止，世行对此估计修改甚少。
| up till now 到目前为止 | so far 到目前为止 |
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| I've lived at home up till now.我一直住在家里。 | What have you found so far?迄今为止，你发现了什么？ |
到目前为止，到现在为止(作时间状语，时态多用现在完成时，相当于 until / till now),现在的之前，持续到现在，所以要用现在完成时。
request for 对…的需求
- They made a request for further aid. 他们要求再给一些帮助。
- I also put in a request for some overtime. 我也提交了加班申请。
- As for the organization itself, it declined a request for an interview. 至于该组织本身，它拒绝了采访的要求。
| a great many (可数名词复数) 许多…大量… | many (可数名词复数) 许多…大量… |
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| A great many trees were destroyed in the storm. 做形容词短语 | He has read a great many of the books in this room. 做代词短语 |
urgent adj. 紧急的
- something urgent 紧急的事情
上一课: Lesson 4 An exciting trip
- a (great / large) number of ... + 可数名词复数
- a great deal of ... + 不可数名词
| one…the other… 一个…另一个… | One is watering the flowers, and the other is reading. |
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| others(不用再加名词) = other + 名词复数 | Some boys are playing football, and others are rowing / (going boating). |
| some ... others ... 一些...另一些... | some guide the blind, and others are babysitters.有的给盲人当向导，有的做保姆。 |
In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
- Each year, hundreds of animals are killed in this way. 每年，数百只动物就是这样被杀死的。
- He performed in this way for many years. 他就这样表演了很多年。
- In this way the stories were passed along. 故事就这样流传下去。