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Lesson24 It could be worse 不幸中之萬(wàn)幸

I entered the hotel manager's office and sat down. I had just lost $50 and I felt very upset.' I left the money in my room,' I said, 'and it's not there now.' The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. 'Everyone's losing money these days,' he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his desk. It contained $5o. 'I found this outside this gentleman's room' she said. 'Well,' I said to the manager, 'there is still some honesty in this world!'

• hotel manager
• upset: adj./n. If you are upset, you are unhappy or disappointed because something unpleasant has happened to you.
  • 動(dòng)詞和形容詞讀作/?p'set/王滤，名詞讀作/'?pset/
  • 過(guò)去式, 過(guò)去完成時(shí)也是 upset
  • v. 攪亂心情/市場(chǎng)/東西
    • upset stb
    • upset house prices
    • upset the piles of sheets
  • n.腸胃被打翻, 感到不適
    • a stomach upset
• sympathetic 通常表示對(duì)別人或別人的事抱同情態(tài)度的
• wicked a. 缺德的
• interrupted
• evelope 上一篇的 'a glass evelope' 瓶中信
• outside 介詞
• honesty UK ['?n.?.sti] US ['ɑ:.n?-]

From The Manager's View:

I am Steve and I am a hotel manager. I often receive complains[=> complaints] from customers. Yesterday, a customer, who lives in 1102, came into my office and sit down. He told me that he put his fifty dollars in the room but the money was stolen by anyone[by someone else]. I expressed my sympathy for his loss then I started to complain this wicked world. I told him that everyone was losing money. A knock at the door broke our talk, and a girl came in and put an evelope on my desk. She said she found this outside this customer's door. The evelope contained fifteen dollars in it. I felt embarrassed when the customer said there was still some honesty in this world.

Knowledges

• complain 的名詞是 complaint
• 被別人偷了 be stolen by someone else. anyone是任何人的意思
• express sympathy for sth

From The Girl's View:

I am a waitress in a hotel. Yesterday, while I was cleaning the corridor, a tenant hurried away from his room. Something dropped from his coat when he was shutdowning the door. I found it is an envelope with fifty dollars. I wanted to give it back to the tenant but he had run away. So I went to the manage's office and knocked on his door. I noticed that the tenant was sitting before my manager and talking with him when I went in. I put the evelope on the manager's desk. Later, I heard the tenant said to my manager that there was still some honesty in the world.

Knowledges

• waiter, waitress
• while 和 when
  • while: 強(qiáng)調(diào)暫時(shí)性, when 不強(qiáng)調(diào)暫時(shí)性, 反而更注意開(kāi)始
  • when從句可以表示一個(gè)時(shí)間點(diǎn)，也可以表示一段時(shí)段滓鸠，而while從句則只能表示一段時(shí)段.
  • eg. 少壯不努力雁乡，老大徒傷悲 Laziness while (when) young(暫時(shí)) spells regret when (while) old(有始無(wú)終).
  • eg. Strike while (*when) the iron is hot. 趁熱打鐵。
  • eg. Make hey while (*when) the sun shines. 曬草要趁太陽(yáng)好糜俗。
  • eg. Work while (when) you work; play while (when) you play. This is the way to be happy and gay. 做時(shí)做, 玩時(shí)玩. 此乃快樂(lè)之道.* passageway(走廊踱稍；通道曲饱；過(guò)道), corridor*((建筑物或火車內(nèi)的)走廊，過(guò)道珠月，通道), gangway/gangplank(劇場(chǎng)扩淀、飛機(jī)等的）座間通道，過(guò)道)
• tenant, client, customer, shopper, patient

Remembers

• while 和 when
  • while: 強(qiáng)調(diào)暫時(shí)性, when 不強(qiáng)調(diào)暫時(shí)性, 反而更注意開(kāi)始
  • when從句可以表示一個(gè)時(shí)間點(diǎn)桥温，也可以表示一段時(shí)段引矩，而while從句則只能表示一段時(shí)段.
  • eg. 少壯不努力，老大徒傷悲 Laziness while (when) young(暫時(shí)) spells regret when (while) old(有始無(wú)終).
  • eg. Strike while (*when) the iron is hot. 趁熱打鐵侵浸。
  • eg. Make hey while (*when) the sun shines. 曬草要趁太陽(yáng)好旺韭。
  • eg. Work while (when) you work; play while (when) you play. This is the way to be happy and gay. 做時(shí)做, 玩時(shí)玩. 此乃快樂(lè)之道.

任務(wù)時(shí)間: 2017-01-06
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