自考0794综合英语(一)课程讲义全下册Lesson14

Lesson FourteenThe Outside Chance 一、词汇outside adj. 极小的（可能性、机会等）quote v. 引证，引述[kw]rainy adj. 下雨的,多雨的windycloudysandymechanic n.技工，机修工garage n. 汽车修理厂（或兼加油站）；车房，车库restless adj.不安分的，坐立不安的mum n.（口语）妈妈council house n.（英国市、郡等统建的便宜的）公寓或房屋pension n.养老金；退休金；抚恤金tube n.（英）地铁subway美式地铁tube英式地铁gap n.（时音或空间的）间断，空白；差距；裂缝generationgapjump n. 跳，跳跃my God interj. 天哪winner n. 获胜的人或马等outsider n.（赛马中）不看好的马bet v.&n. 赌博，打赌；赌注，赌金draw v.（从银行）取款lay v. 押（赌注），赌（钱等）suspicious adj.（对……）起疑心的，可疑的notice n. 辞职书；通知，预告announcer n. 播音员，广播员explosion n.爆炸explodeexplosionup adv. 在北方，在高处enquiry n. 调查，查询stop press n.（英）（报纸付印时留出的）最新的消息栏bloody adj. （英俚）该死的swim v.似在旋转，似在摇晃better off adj 经济情况好转的well offdamn adv.（口语）非常二、课文分析1 It’s a funny thing about money. If you haven’t got it, you think it’s the most important thing in the world. That’s what I used to think, too. I don’t any more, thought, and I learned the hard way.钱这个东西真是很捉弄人。

如果你还没有钱的时候，你会认为他是世界上是重要的东西，这是我过去的想法。

use to do 过去常常。

但是现在我不会这么想了，而且我学会这一点是经历了许多的困难的。

2 When I was at school, we had this English master. He was always quoting to us from famous writers. I wasn’t very interested, and I don’t remember much about it now. But it’s fumy how things come back to you .He used to say:当我还在上学的时候我们有一个英语老师，他常常会引述一些作家的话，我不是特别的感兴趣，而且现在能想起来的也不多了，但是当这个事情回头发生在你身上的时候，你会觉得非常的好笑。

他过去总是说：3 “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”“当上帝想要惩罚你的时候他就会回应我们的祷告”pray v.祷告4 Sounds a bit silly, doesn’t it? Well, I didn’t understand it then, either, but I can tell you what it means now. It means if you want something really badly, you ‘ll probably get it. But you’ll probably get it in a way you don’t expect.听起来有些愚蠢对不对sound 系动词That music sounds beautiful.那音乐优美动听。

His explanation sounded reasonable.他的解释听起来合情合理。

当然了，我在上学的时候也不理解这句话，但是现在我却可以告诉你他意味着什么意思，他就意味着你特别想要什么东西，也许你就可以得到他，但是你得到他是以一种你从来没有想过的方式。

5 I mean, you might have to pay a price you didn’t bargain for.那么，我的意思就是说，你可能会为了得到这个东西付出你从来没有想过的代价，pay a price for 付出代价He will pay a big price for his crime.他会为自己的罪行而付出高昂代价。

Someday you will pay the price for drinking so much.你喝这么多，总有一天会吃苦头的。

6 It started one rainy day, when I was coming home from work.这件事开始于一个雨天，我刚刚下了班在回家的路上。

7 I’m a motor mechanic, and I like working in the garage. But, I was restless. I’d always had this dream of owning my own business. Nothing big—just something I could build up. I don’t mind hard work, you see, if I’m working for myself. That’s why I’d left my mum and dad in the North, and come to London. I thought I’d make more money that way.我是一个爱骑车的修理工，而且我喜欢在修车厂工作，但是那个时候我非常不安份，我一直有一个梦想，就是拥有一个我自己的小生意，并不要很大，只是能够慢慢将它壮大就可以了.如果我是为自己工作的话，我不介意工作多新辛苦，这就是我为什么要离开父母来到伦墩，我以为我可以通过这种方式挣更多的钱。

build up 逐渐获得、发展或增强She is building up a collection of herbs and spices.她正在收集草药和香料spicy hot 辣8 We’d had arguments about it. My dad and I. He didn’t see why I should want to leave home when I had enough money to live on.我和父母之间争吵过，由其是我父亲和我之间，他不能够理解我在家中有足够的钱生活的时候还要离开家这么远。

See理解，live on 靠什么东西生活。

9 Enough! Enough for what? I used to ask him. To live as he had in a council house all his life, with nothing to look forward to but a gold watch and a pension?足购多！购干什么的呀！这点钱就够一辈子住在这种廉价的房子里，什么都没有指望，也不渴忘什么，除了一块不错的金表，和一份不错的养老金吗。

10 Oh, I was fond of him, you see, and it annoyed me to see him so content. He had nothing to show for all those years of work in that noisy factory.是的，我很爱我的父亲，所以，看到他如此满足于现状，让我很生气，be content with 对……感到满足for all=in spite of 尽管尽管他在这个破工厂里那么多年，但是没能什么值钱的东西11 Anyway, all this was on my mind, as I walked home that night, The rain didn’t help, either. I remember thinking, if only I could get a thousand pounds—just that, just a thousand.当然这些想法都是在我的脑海当中，当我那天晚上回家的时候就在想这些事情，即使下着雨也没办法抑制我这样想，我还记得那个时候只要我能有一千镑，就一千镑就可以开始我自己的小事业了12 I stopped and bought a newspaper outside the Tube. I thought it would take my mind off things on the way home. A could read about other people’s troubles for a change. See what films were on.出了地铁站我买了一份报纸，我希望我能在回家的路上，通过这份报纸把这些烦心事忘记。

take one’s mind off 不再去想The day before the exam, I went to the cinema to take my mind off things.考试前一天，为了放松，我去看了一场电影。

我可以去读读别人的烦恼，换换口味，13 I don’t know when I first realized there was something wrong with the paper. It looked ordinary enough. But there was something about it that didn’t seem quite right. As if there was a gap in the news. As if it was a jump ahead. So ,in the end, I looked at the front page, and instead of Tuesday 22nd November, it said Wednesday 23rd November.我不知道从什么时候开始这份报纸好像有点问题，这份报纸看起来非常普通，然而去好像有什么事情似乎不太对，好像在新闻之间有断层，好像新闻提新了，所以呢最后的时候我看了首版，不是11月22号星期二，而是11月23号星期三。