第三讲
5. 现在进行时,主语+am, is, are doing (现在分词)
1) Sailing- Rod Stewart
I am sailing, I am sailing .
Home again, cross the sea
I am sailing, stormy water
To be near you, to be free.
I am flying, I am flying
like a bird, cross the sky
I am flying, passing high clouds
To be with you, to be free
Can you hear me, can you hear me
Through the dark night far away
I am dying forever crying
To be with you, who can say
航行
我在航行, 我在航行
跨越海洋, 回到家乡
我在航行, 顺风破浪
向你靠近, 获得自由
我在飞翔, 我在飞翔
像只鸟儿, 飞越天空
我在飞翔,穿越白云
与你同行, 获得自由
你可听见, 你可听见
远隔万里, 茫茫夜空
我将死去, 永远哭泣
向你靠近, 有谁能说
2)Mirror
Tom is looking at the mirror with his eyes closed. His mother asks him, “why are you looking at the mirror with your eyes closed?
Tom answers, “I just want to see what I look like when I’m asleep.”
3) Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping? Brother John. Morning bells are ringing. Ding-dong-ding
4) Lemon tree
I’m sitting here in a boring room
It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I’m
wasting my time I got nothing to do
I’m
hanging around I’m
waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder
我坐在这儿,一个无聊的房间
又是一个多雨的星期六下午
我在浪费光阴,我无事可做
我在四处闲逛,我在等候你
但什么也没发生,我多想有什么发生。
5)Big, big girl.
It’s so very cold outside like the way I’m feeling inside
Outside it’s now raining and tears are falling from my eyes
外面是那么的冷
就像我内心的感觉一样
现在外面正下雨
而我的眼睛也流泪
现在进行时表将要发生的动作,有come, go, leave等
6)Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
你要去斯卡布罗集市吗?
芜荽, 鼠尾草,迷迭草和白里香
7) Moon River
Wherever you’re going, I’m going your way.
8) I’m coming
6. 过去进行时 主语+was, were doing (现在分词)
1) What were you doing when your wife came home
yesterday evening?
昨天晚上你妻子回来的时候你正在干什么?
I was watching TV with my son. 我正和我的儿子看电视。
2) Five flies
On Sunday evening, a husband was
beating flies and his wife was
knitting a sweater. The wife asks her husband, “ you have been busy
beating so long, how many have you beaten?”
“Five, three males, two females.”
The wife was very surprised:“ How do you
distinguish males from females?”
“It’s very easy, the three ones on the razor are male and the other two ones on the dressing table must be female.
五只苍蝇
星期日的晚上,丈夫在打苍蝇,妻子在织毛衣。
妻子问丈夫:“你忙活打了这么长时间,你已经打了多少只?”
“五只,三只公,两只母的。”
妻子很惊讶:“你怎么能辨别出公的和母的?”
“很容易,落在剃须刀上的那三只是公的,落在梳妆台上的那两只一定是母的。”
7. 现在完成时, 主语+have, has +done(过去分词)
1) Teaching is not only a pleasure for me, it has become a necessity. No matter how many other things I have in my life, if I cannot give myself to my dear teaching, I am miserable.
教学对我来说不仅是一种愉悦,它已经成为一种必须。不管在其它方面我有多富有,如果我不能教我心爱的课,那么我就是一贫如洗。
2) Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyed-and perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.
电视是表达和传递感情的手段之一,在加强不同民族和国家之间的联系方面,电视或许还从未像在最近的欧洲事件中那样发挥过如此大的作用。
3) Raving 胡言乱语
A
mental patient roared out, “I’m the Pope, you must all obey me.”
The doctor asked with knitted brows, “Who said?”
The patient answered, “God said.”
Another patient by his side jumped to the feet, “I have never said.”
一个精神病患者吼道:“我是教皇,你们必须得服从我。”
医生皱着眉头说:“谁说的?”
患者回答道:“上帝说的。”
在他旁边的另外一个患者跳起来说道:“我从未说过。”
4) Echo 回音
A patient went to see his dentist. The
dentist exclaimed as he examined his patient, “ Good gracious! You have got the biggest
cavity I’ve ever seen, the biggest
cavity I’ve ever seen.”
“You needn’t repeat it,” snapped the patient. “No, I
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