1122 - Goodbye, Mr. Chips 晨读笔记 09

1 he had once tried it , but had chanced to strike the Riviera during one of its carefully unadvertised cold spells .

the chances are 用于口语表达，表示大概是，很可能是，可以替代：its likely that....

eg: The chances are that I will be looking for a new job soon.

造句：The chances are that he will not come her this afternoon.

Spell (某种活动、天气等的)一段短暂时间，一阵

»a spell of warm/dry weather  

»a cold / hot / wet / bright, etc. spell  一段寒冷、炎热、多雨、晴朗等的日子 

造句：There has been a long cold spell in Manchester, which gives me a chill

I do not like the long spell of dry weather.

spell 可以替代period, 这个小词汇很好用！！！！

2 表示除了的词汇有：

apart from, except, besides, on top of, rather than, save  --save,可以做介词也表示除了，口语很少用,比较正式

3 Sometimes they tired him,

tire 可以做动词，他们把我累着了

造句： If writing the dissertation tires you, watch a movie to chill out.

that had quite exhausted him

Five minutes walk tires/exhausted me.

The trip to Poland has tired/exhausted me physically. --I was exhausted by the trip.

无穷无尽 可以用exhausted

4 there’s a lot of flu about

there’s a lot of flu [flu: ] about 流感很流行。 flu influenza [ ˌ ɪnflʊ ' enzə ] 的简略语，流行性感冒，是口语。 about （疾病）流行；是副词。

5 ‘Ah, that accounts for it

解释的通 = make sense

6  been there, done that.

我已去过某处或经历过某事（表示没兴趣再听）

7 rank and fire （团体、公司等的）普通成员，普通职员

需要注意的发音：

1 everywhere （注意where 的 e的读音）

2 Breathing ， breath /brɛθ/ 需要区别这两个的发音，很容易读错

3 usual

4 cambridge /ˈkembrɪdʒ/ 发的是ei的音

5 timidity /tɪˈmɪdətɪ/  注意重音位置 

6 Measles /'mizəlz/