NCE-2 24 It could be worse

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Lesson24 It could be worse 不幸中之万幸

I entered the hotel manager's office and sat down. I had just lost $50 and I felt very upset.' I left the money in my room,' I said, 'and it's not there now.' The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. 'Everyone's losing money these days,' he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his desk. It contained $5o. 'I found this outside this gentleman's room' she said. 'Well,' I said to the manager, 'there is still some honesty in this world!'

• hotel manager
• upset: adj./n. If you are upset, you are unhappy or disappointed because something unpleasant has happened to you.
  • 动词和形容词读作/ʌp'set/，名词读作/'ʌpset/
  • 过去式, 过去完成时也是 upset
  • v. 搅乱心情/市场/东西
    • upset stb
    • upset house prices
    • upset the piles of sheets
  • n.肠胃被打翻, 感到不适
    • a stomach upset
• sympathetic 通常表示对别人或别人的事抱同情态度的
• wicked a. 缺德的
• interrupted
• evelope 上一篇的 'a glass evelope' 瓶中信
• outside 介词
• honesty UK ['ɒn.ə.sti] US ['ɑ:.nə-]

From The Manager's View:

I am Steve and I am a hotel manager. I often receive complains[=> complaints] from customers. Yesterday, a customer, who lives in 1102, came into my office and sit down. He told me that he put his fifty dollars in the room but the money was stolen by anyone[by someone else]. I expressed my sympathy for his loss then I started to complain this wicked world. I told him that everyone was losing money. A knock at the door broke our talk, and a girl came in and put an evelope on my desk. She said she found this outside this customer's door. The evelope contained fifteen dollars in it. I felt embarrassed when the customer said there was still some honesty in this world.

Knowledges

• complain 的名词是 complaint
• 被别人偷了 be stolen by someone else. anyone是任何人的意思
• express sympathy for sth

From The Girl's View:

I am a waitress in a hotel. Yesterday, while I was cleaning the corridor, a tenant hurried away from his room. Something dropped from his coat when he was shutdowning the door. I found it is an envelope with fifty dollars. I wanted to give it back to the tenant but he had run away. So I went to the manage's office and knocked on his door. I noticed that the tenant was sitting before my manager and talking with him when I went in. I put the evelope on the manager's desk. Later, I heard the tenant said to my manager that there was still some honesty in the world.

Knowledges

• waiter, waitress
• while 和 when
  • while: 强调暂时性, when 不强调暂时性, 反而更注意开始
  • when从句可以表示一个时间点，也可以表示一段时段，而while从句则只能表示一段时段.
  • eg. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲 Laziness while (when) young(暂时) spells regret when (while) old(有始无终).
  • eg. Strike while (*when) the iron is hot. 趁热打铁。
  • eg. Make hey while (*when) the sun shines. 晒草要趁太阳好。
  • eg. Work while (when) you work; play while (when) you play. This is the way to be happy and gay. 做时做, 玩时玩. 此乃快乐之道.* passageway(走廊；通道；过道), corridor*((建筑物或火车内的)走廊，过道，通道), gangway/gangplank(剧场、飞机等的）座间通道，过道)
• tenant, client, customer, shopper, patient

Remembers

• while 和 when
  • while: 强调暂时性, when 不强调暂时性, 反而更注意开始
  • when从句可以表示一个时间点，也可以表示一段时段，而while从句则只能表示一段时段.
  • eg. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲 Laziness while (when) young(暂时) spells regret when (while) old(有始无终).
  • eg. Strike while (*when) the iron is hot. 趁热打铁。
  • eg. Make hey while (*when) the sun shines. 晒草要趁太阳好。
  • eg. Work while (when) you work; play while (when) you play. This is the way to be happy and gay. 做时做, 玩时玩. 此乃快乐之道.

任务时间: 2017-01-06
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