初级美语Lesson34:ExpressingBothSpecificandGenera

Conversation C

MARTIN: Are you going shopping today?
EILEEN: Yes.
MARTIN: When are you going shopping.
EILEEN: After work. I must buy some food.
MARTIN: Please buy some coffee.
EILEEN: Don't we have coffee?
MARTIN: No, I finished the coffee.
EILEEN: When?
MARTIN: This morning. I made coffee for breakfast. When did you buy coffee?
EILEEN: I bought coffee last week. Are you drinking too much coffee?
MARTIN: I like coffee.
EILEEN: When do you drink so much coffee?
MARTIN: In the morning. I like coffee in the morning.
EILEEN: What time is it. Martin?
MARTIN: It's nine-twenty.
EILEEN: What time is the train to Pittsburgh?
MARTIN: At nine-thirty.
EILEEN: May I buy a newspaper? I didn't read the newspaper this morning. 
MARTIN: I don't know. Can you wait?
EILEEN: When can I buy the newspaper?
MARTIN: In a few minutes. I'm going in a few minutes.
EILEEN: Martin, are you going to work on Saturday?
MARTIN: No, I don't like to work on weekends.
EILEEN: Can you take Sue and her friends to the park?
MARTIN: When?
EILEEN: In the afternoon. There is band concert.
MARTIN: What time is the concert?
EILEEN: The concert is at two-fifteen.
MARTIN: What band is playing?
EILEEN: There are three school bands playing. Some of Sue's friends are playing in the band.
MARTIN: What time are they going to finish?
EILEEN: At four o'clock. I want to work on Saturday.
MARTIN: Do you want to work at home?
EILEEN: No, I can't. I want to work at the office.
VALERIE: Eileen? Hi. How are you?
EILEEN: Hello! What are you doing here, Valerie? Martin, this is Valerie McCormick.
MARTIN: Hello. Eileen told me about you. I'm happy to meet you. 
VALERIE: How are you? 
MARTIN: Fine, thanks.
EILEEN: Where are you going? What are you doing here?
VALERIE: I'm going home. I brought my husband to the train.
EILEEN: What time is his train?
VALERIE: It was at nine-ten. It left.
MARTIN: Where is he going?
VALERIE: He's going to Hartford, Connecticut. Where are you going? 
EILEEN: Martin is going to Pittsburgh.
VALERIE: What time is your train?
MARTIN: It's at nine-thirty. I'm going now. Good-bye.
EILEEN: Good-bye. Be careful.
VALERIE: Good-bye. Martin.

Practice 3：巩固确切时间及大致时间的表达法。
Examples:
  MARTIN: At nine-thirty.
EILEEN: At two-fifteen. At four o'clock.
EILEEN: After work.
MARTIN: This morning.
EILEEN: Last week.
MARTIN: In the morning. In a few minutes.
EILEEN: In the afternoon.

会话C
马  丁：你今天去买东西吗?
艾  琳：是的。
马  丁：你什么时候去买东西?
艾  琳：下班以后。我必须买些食品。
马  丁：买些咖啡吧。
艾  琳：我们没有咖啡了吗?
马  丁：没有了，我用完了。
艾  琳：什么时候?
马  丁：今天早晨，我早餐煮的咖啡。你什么时候买的咖啡?
艾  琳：我上周才买的咖啡，你咖啡喝得太多了吧?
马  丁：我喜欢咖啡。
艾  琳：你什么时候喝下这么多咖啡?
马  丁：在早上，我喜欢早上喝咖啡。
艾  琳：马丁，几点了?
马  丁：9点20分。
艾  琳：到匹兹堡的火车是什么时间?
马  丁：9点30分。
艾  琳：我去买张报纸好吗?我今早没看报纸。
马  丁：我不知道，你能等一等吗?
艾  琳：那我什么时候能买报纸呢?
马  丁：几分钟后，我几分钟后就走了。
艾  琳：马丁，你星期六去上班吗?
马  丁：不，我不喜欢在周末工作。
艾  琳：你能带苏和她的朋友们去公园吗?
马  丁：什么时候?
艾  琳：下午。有个乐队演奏的音乐会。
马  丁：音乐会什么时候开始?
艾  琳：音乐会在下午2点15分开始。
马  丁：什么乐队来演奏?
艾  琳：有3个学校乐队演奏，苏的一些朋友在乐队里演奏。
马  丁：几点结束?
艾  琳：4点。我想在星期六工作。
马  丁：你想要在家里工作吗?
艾  琳：不，我不能。我想要在办公室工作。
瓦莱丽：艾琳?你好，你近来好吗?
艾  琳：你好!瓦莱丽，你来这儿有什么事?马丁，这是瓦莱丽·麦考密克。
马  丁：你好，艾琳跟我提到过你，很高兴见到你。
瓦莱丽：你近来好吗?
马  丁：我很好，谢谢。
艾  琳：你去哪儿?你在这儿做什么?
瓦莱丽：我正要回家，我来送我丈夫上火车。
艾  琳：他乘的是几点的车?
瓦莱丽：9点10分，车已经开走了。
马  丁：他去哪儿?
瓦莱丽：他去康涅狄格州的哈特福德。你们去哪儿?
艾  琳：马丁去匹兹堡。
瓦莱丽：你乘的是几点的火车?
马  丁：9点30分，我现在走了，再见。
艾  琳：再见，保重。
瓦莱丽：再见，马丁。
 

New Words and Expressions 生词和短语

meet the train 接火车，接站
band concert 乐队演奏的音乐会
 

Proper Nouns 专有名词

Valerie McCormick   瓦雷利·麦考密克
Connectcut   康涅狄格州
Hartford   哈特福德市
 

Language Points 语言要点

1.  What time does it arrive in Pittsburgh?(什么时间到达匹兹堡?)用 arrive 表示“到达”。arrive 是不及物动词，其后要跟介词 in 或 at，一般 arrive in 用于大城市、GJ，arrive at 用于小地方。表示“到达”的涵义的常用词还有 reach 和 get to 短语，reach 是及物动词，可直接与名词连用。get to 是惯用语，不如 arrive 和 reach 正式，
多用于口语。例如：
What time do we arrive at Cardiff? 我们什么时候到达卡尔迪福?
When did you arrive in Britain? 你们是什么时候到达英国的?
He arrived reached at the station at 5. 他5点到达车站。
He will get to Tokyo tomorrow. 他将于明天到达东京。
2.  ago 是“以前”的意思，本课中用 ago 的句子有：
I wrote a story about Pittsburgh ten years ago.
他10年前写过一篇关于匹兹堡的报道。
I wrote a story three years ago. 我3年前写过一篇故事。
I first visited Washington many years ago.我是多年前首次访问华盛顿的
由上述句子可看出，ago 是“距今……以前”。我们学过表示“以前”的单词 before，它是表示“较过去……以前”。也就是说 ago 是相对现在而言的，before 是相对过去而言的。这一点从下面的例句就可以看出。
I visited him two days ago, but he had gone to London five days before.
他两天前去看他，但是他已在那5天前就去了伦敦了。
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Cultural Notes  文化注释

康涅狄格州(Connecticut)位于美国的东北部，东临大西洋，首府是 New Haven，与罗德岛州、麻萨诸塞州及纽约州相接壤。Connecticut 来源于印第安语，意思是“beside the long tidal river”(在长长的潮河旁)。

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