Notes on the text 课文注释
1 detectives were waiting at the airport all morning,
侦探们在机场等了整整一上午 。句中的动词时态是过去进行时 。过去进行时常用来表示过去某时正在进行的情况或动作 。本课课文中有4个句子使用了过去进行时 。参看第1册第117-119等课中的例句 。
2 keep guard, 守卫 。
3 to their surprise,
使他们吃惊的是 。
参考译文
飞机误点了，侦探们在机场等了整整一上午 。他们正期待从南非来的一个装着钻石的贵重包裹 。数小时以前，有人向警方报告，说有人企图偷走这些钻石 。当飞机到达时，一些侦探等候在主楼内，另一些侦探则守候在停机坪上 。有两个人把包裹拿下飞机，进了海关 。这时两个侦探把住门口，另外两个侦探打开了包裹 。令他们吃惊的是，那珍贵的包裹里面装的全是石头和沙子！
Lesson 8 The best and the worst 更好的和最差的
课文内容：
Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. Nearly everybody enters for‘The Nicest Garden Competition’each year, but Joe wins every time. Bill Frith's garden is larger than Joe's. Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, but Joe's garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gardens too, but I do not like hard work. Every year I enter for the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town!
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town. 乔·桑德斯拥有我们镇上最漂亮的花园 。在第1册的第107-112课中，我们讲到了英文中形容词和副词的比较级和更高级 。本课的主要句型仍是形容词和副词的比较级和更高级 。如果形容词或副词有两个以上音节，其比较级和更高级是在形容词或副词前加上more或most，如more interesting, the most beautiful 。
2 enter for, 报名参加(各种竞赛，考试等活动)
3 more flowers and vegetables, 更多的花卉和蔬菜 。英语中有些形容词或副词的比较级和更高级并不规则，如课文中的 good----better----best, bad----worse----worst, many----more----most 。
4 for the worst garden in the town 是介词短语作定语，修饰prize 。
参考译文
乔·桑德斯拥有我们镇上最漂亮的花园 。几乎每个人都参加每年举办的“更佳花园竞赛”，而每次都是乔获胜 。比尔·弗里斯的花园比乔的花园大，他比乔也更为勤奋，种植的花卉和蔬菜也更多，但乔的花园更富有情趣 。他修筑了一条条整洁的小路，并在一个池塘上架了一座小木桥 。我也喜欢花园，但我却不愿意辛勤劳动 。每年的花园竞赛我也参加，但总因是镇上最劣的花园而获得一个小奖！
Lesson 9——A cold welcome
课文内容：
On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes' time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, ‘It's two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!* I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 Town Hall , 市政厅，地方 *** 办公之处 。
2 a large crowd of…，一大群…… 。
3 in twenty minutes'time, 20分钟之后 。
参考译文
星期三的晚上，我们去了市政厅 。那是一年的最后一天，一大群人聚集在市政厅的大钟下面 。再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下 。15分钟过去了，而就在11点55分时，大钟停了 。那根巨大的分针不动了 。我们等啊等啊，可情况没有变化 。突然有人喊道：“已经12点零2分了！那钟已经停了！”我看了一下我的手表，果真如此 。那座大钟不愿意迎接新年 。此时，大家已经笑了起来，同时唱起了歌 。
Lesson 10—Not For Jazz
课文内容：
Not For Jazz
We have an old musical instrument. It is called a clavichord. It was made in Germany in 1681. Our clavichord is kept in the living-room. It has belonged to our family for a long time. The instrument was brought by my grandfather many years ago. Recently it was damaged by a visitor. She tried to play jazz on it! She struck the keys too hard and two of the strings were broken. My father was shocked. Now we were not allowed to touch it. It is being repaired by a friend of my father's.
参考译文：
我们有一件古老的乐器,叫击弦古钢琴.它是1681年德国制造的, 我们这架钢琴放在客厅里.我们家拥有它很长时间了,这件乐器是许多年前我祖父买来的.最近它被一位客人弄坏了,她用它弹奏爵士乐! 她按键太猛,把两根弦按断了.我父亲为之震怒. 现在他不允许我们再碰它.父亲的一位朋友正在修理这件古老的乐器.
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