新概念二册 Lesson 9 A cold welcome冷遇 (时间的介词短语)

1 课文

What does a cold welcome’ refer to?
　　On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall.
　　星期三的晚上，我们去了市政厅。

It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock.
　　那是一年的最后一天，一大群人聚集在市政厅的大钟下面。

It would strike twelve in twenty minutes’ time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped.
　　再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下。15分钟过去 了，而就在 11点55分时，大钟停了。

The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened.
　　那根巨大的分针不动了。我们等啊等啊，可情况没有变化。

Suddenly someone shouted, ‘It’s two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!" I looked at my watch. It was true.
　　突然有人喊道：“已经12点零2分了！那钟已经停了！”我看了一下我的 手表，果真如此。

The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.
　　那座大钟不愿意迎接新年。此时，大家已经笑了起来，同时唱起了歌。

2 单词

2.1. welcome [ˈwelkəm] n. 欢迎

a cold welcome 冷遇
a warm welcome 热遇

v. 欢迎
welcome you / the New Year 欢迎你/新
Welcome to Beijing.

adj. 受欢迎的
Thank you.
You are welcome. 你是受欢迎的(口语中通常用在thank you，表示不用谢)

2.2. crowd [kraʊd] n. 人群

a large crowd of people
crowded adj. 拥挤的

2.3 gather [ˈgæðə®] v.聚集

2.4 hand [hænd] n. （表或机器的）指针

v. 传递
hand sth. to sb. 把某个东西传递给某个

2.5 refuse [rɪˈfju:z] 拒绝

refuse sb. / sth. 拒绝某人/某事
refuse to do sth. 拒绝做某事

2.6 shout [ʃaʊt] v.喊叫

2.7 laugh [lɑ:f] v.笑

simle v. 微笑
laugh v.大笑
laugh at sb./sth. 嘲笑某人/某事

3 语法

3.1 介词

1 解释：介词起到的是连接作用。起到中介媒介的作用。
2 缩写：prep.
3 介词的用法：通常接名词，代词，动名词。
4 介词 和后面的词一块形成介宾结构。
I looked at my watch.（my watch 是宾语）

3.2 表示时间的介词

a)不容易混淆
before 在什么之前
after 在什么之后
from … to… 从…到…
since 至从…
until 直到…
during 在…期间…

2)容易混淆
at + 时间点/类时间点
at 8’ oclock
at midnight 半夜12点
at night 晚上10点左右
at noon

on + 天
on Monday
on april 4th.

in + 大的范围（年/月/季节,上午/下午/晚上）
in 1992/january/summer
in the morning/afternoon/evening

3.2 in + 时间与将来时连用表示多次时间之后

It would strike twelve in twenty minutes’ time. 再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下。

4 课文讲解

1 Town Hall，市政厅、地方政府办公之处。
2 a large crowd of … 一大群…
3 in twenty minutes’ time， 20分钟之后。
4 begin to do = begion doing 表示开始做某事