Week 63

DAY301

L60-3: Too early and too late

The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests. Then they arrived just when we wanted them. If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get on it.

知识点：

词组：

catch a train / bus / plane

赶火车/公交/飞机

a fraction of a second / a minute / an inch …

不到一秒钟 / 一分钟 / 一英寸

pull / draw out of the station

出站

pull / draw in（in后不用加站） / into the station （into后面加站）

进站

长难句、语法：

The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.

动词不定式做表语时, 若前面出现了实义动词 “do”，则常去掉 “to”

eg. All I have to do is dream.

DAY302

L60-4: Too early and too late

An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was traveling alone. She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her.She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket.

知识点：

单词：

due

adj. 1. 到期的, 到时间的

eg. When is your baby due?

eg. The train is due (in) at 8:00.

adj. 2. 适当的

eg. after due consideration

OPPundue / unduly 过度的/过度地

词组：

in good time (for sth.)

早早就……

befall (befell befallen)=overtake / happen to

不幸的事降临到……

eg. A great misfortune befell him.

impress sth. on / upon sb.

让某人铭记某事

eg. Father impressed on me the importance of hard work.

eg. I had always impressed upon the children that if they worked hard they would succeed in life.

cause sb. to do

使得某人做某事

make a journey

到某地去

DAY303

L60-5: Too early and too late

To her horror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail, not passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that her father could not have made such a mistake.

知识点：

单词：

timetable （BrE）时刻表，时间表

=schedule （AmE）

词组：

feel for …

摸着找……

eg. She felt in her bag for a pencil.

take on ...

上（货/乘客等）

eg. The bus stopped to take on more passengers.

DAY304

L60-6: Too early and too late

The porter went to fetch one and arrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a microscopic 'o' beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; this little 'o' indicated that the train only stopped for mail.Just as that moment the train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged to be allowed to slip into the guard's van. But the station master was adamant: rules could not be broken and she had to watch that train disappear towards her destination while she was left behind.

知识点：

单词：

microscopic /ˌmaikrəˈskɔpik/

1.adj. 小的;微小的;微观的;极精细的

Microscopic objects are extremely small, and usually can be seen only through a microscope.

非常仔细的;一丝不苟的

2.adj. If you say that something is done in microscopic detail, you are emphasizing that it is done in a very thorough, detailed way.

van/væn/ 封闭式的车厢

eg. a luggage van 装运行李的车厢

in the van(BrE,formal)

at the front or in the leading position

处于前沿；处于领先地位

词组：

break rules

打破规则

leave sb. / sth. ↔ behind

留下（不带走）

句式：

disappear towards her destination

do sth. with a flourish

为了引起注意而用较大的动作自信地/潇洒地做某事

eg. The waiter handed me the menu with a flourish.

精妙翻译：

The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged to be allowed to slip into the guard's van.

女孩泪流满面，央求让她不声不响地到押车员车厢里去算了。