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Lesson 14 Do you speak English? 你會(huì)講英語(yǔ)嗎？

I had an amusing experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of France, I drove on to the next town. On the way, a young man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for a lift. As soon as he had got into the car, I said good morning to him in French and he replied in the same language. Apart from a few words, I do not know any French at all. Neither of us spoke during the journey. I had nearly reached the town, when the young man suddenly said, very slowly, 'Do you speak English?' As I soon learnt, he was English himself!

Knowledges

• amusing: amusive, diverting, interesting
• leave n 離開(kāi)某地, leave for 離開(kāi)前往
• drive on: on - 向前，前進(jìn)地. move on, walk on
• wave to sb 向sb招手
• lift. ask for a ~, give sb a ~, hitch a ~
• in a language, 用xx語(yǔ)言
• apart from, 對(duì)應(yīng)中文
  • A. 除了...外, 沒(méi)有了

  Apart from her, we were all in agreement.

  This movie house has a reduced price, apart from Saturday and Sunday. 這家電影院工作日有折扣票.
  - B. 除了...外, 還有...
  > Who else went there apart from you? 除了你，去那里的還有誰(shuí)？
  >
  > There are other problems with that car apart from its cost. 這輛車(chē)不但價(jià)錢(qián)高，而且還有其他一些問(wèn)題。

• 引申1: nothing apart from, 對(duì)應(yīng)中文:
  • 唯一只有 -- 除此之外, 沒(méi)有別的

  She has nothing apart from her good looks to get by in life. 她只能靠自己的美貌過(guò)日子。
  - 離開(kāi)了...就什么也不是
  > Jesus taught us that we can do nothing apart from him. 耶穌教導(dǎo)我們，離開(kāi)了他，我們就一事無(wú)成。

• 引申2: nobody apart from, 對(duì)應(yīng)中文: 除...之外別無(wú)他人

Nobody apart from my mother has ever said that to me. 除了我母親，誰(shuí)也沒(méi)有這樣對(duì)我說(shuō)過(guò)。

• neither: 作為代詞，表示“兩者均不”, 后接單數(shù)動(dòng)詞 (多者均不, 用none)
• nearly: 即將;就要 Nearly is used to indicate that something will soon be the case.

It was so funny - we nearly died laughing.太有趣了——我們差點(diǎn)笑死。

• as I soon learnt, 正如我秒懂的

From the Hitcher's View:

Last year, I was visiting all parts of the European[=>Europe] and I had experienced an amusing a lift. That day, I stood by the road and waved to a van. The van stopped and I asked for a lift in French then. The driver agreed friendly so I got into his van. He greeted to me in the same language and I replied. But I am an English and I didn't, as it were, know French besides[=>except] a few works for daily use. Neither of us spoke during the journey. I expected that the driver talked to me in English. but he hadn't and finally I (想表達(dá)忍不住問(wèn),沒(méi)想到怎么寫(xiě)) asked him whether he can speak English when we nearly arrived the downtown. He told me that he also was an English.

Knowledges

• Europe 跟 European混淆了
• stand by
• greet to 問(wèn)候
• besides 用于引入extra things. 這里用法是錯(cuò)的, 應(yīng)該用 except

From My View:

There was an amusing story happened in the South of French. Two teenagers had finished visit[ed=>ing] their journey of the same small village. One teenager stood by the road and waved to the other one for a lift. Both of them thought that the other person was a French. So they talked nothing apart from a few greetings in French. They didn't know they are all English until the one who hitched asked the driver that whether he knew English when they nearly reached the town.

Knowledges

• finish doing
• greetings

Remembers

• apart from, 對(duì)應(yīng)中文
  • A. 除了...外, 沒(méi)有了

  Apart from her, we were all in agreement.
  - B. 除了...外, 還有...
  > Who else went there apart from you?

• 引申1: nothing apart from, 對(duì)應(yīng)中文:
  • 唯一只有 -- 除此之外, 沒(méi)有別的

  She has nothing apart from her good looks to get by in life. 她只能靠自己的美貌過(guò)日子。

(作文時(shí)間: 2016年12月17日, 耗時(shí): 140分鐘)

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