新概念英語(yǔ)第三冊(cè)逐句精講語(yǔ)言點(diǎn) 第24課 櫥柜里的骷髏 (7)

　　This was worse than‘a terrible secret; this was a real skeleton! But George was unsympathetic. ‘Oh, that,'he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend. ‘That's Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.'

　　19. This was worse than a terrible secret; this was a real skeleton!

　　這是比 “駭人聽聞的秘密 ”更加驚人的東西，這是一具真正的骷髏啊!

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn):句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:分號(hào)之后的內(nèi)容為補(bǔ)充說明，解釋“為什么駭人聽聞”。

　　20. But George was unsympathetic.

　　但喬治卻無動(dòng)于衷。

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn):句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:but引導(dǎo)的句子與上文的說法形成轉(zhuǎn)折，引出下文George對(duì)這件事情的不同看法。

　　21. ‘Oh, that,’he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend.

　　“噢，是它呀!他笑著說道，儼然在談?wù)撘晃焕吓笥选?/p>

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:that指代上文中提到的skeleton。as if引導(dǎo)虛擬語(yǔ)氣—“好像在談?wù)撘晃焕吓笥?rdquo;。

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)2:said with a smile的意思是“笑著說”，with a smile作方式狀語(yǔ)，指的是“以笑的方式說”。

　　22. ‘That’s Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.’

　　“那是塞巴斯蒂安。你忘了我以前是學(xué)醫(yī)的了。”

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:that引導(dǎo)賓語(yǔ)從句，說明forget的內(nèi)容是什么。

　　語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)2:once upon a time指的是“過去，曾經(jīng)”，即以前的事情。