2018-11-13

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Good morning, Mr. chips(早起，精读）

DAY1.

第一章：

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.   

1.get on in years 变老，2.like lazy cattle moving across a landscape,形容老人时间过的很慢，写的很好

sprightliness同意词exuberance

Rarely did he read more than a page of it ……

But Brookfield he had liked.

倒装句，英文中很常见（Rarely would we say like this.)

wind up过去时wound up 给闹钟上发条

who're going to die a really natural death. That is, of course, if you die at all.

1.die a… death/ die a hero/ die young  2.if you die at all 口语中很常见

put in for 申请 

gather:  suppose /think 

strong pint: strong suit, forte

queer 奇怪的 courteous 有礼貌的  recollection     注意读音

Take up a firm attitude from the beginning.很实用的话例如： take up a chanllenge

Decent little beggars individually, but, as a mob, just pitiless and implacable.

implacable：relentless, implacable badgering(出自生活大爆炸）