新概念英语第二册第55课课文原文
Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽车!
课文原文:
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
译文:
本.弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车,并开始了一项新的业务。这辆“出租汽车”是一架小型瑞士飞机,叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。这架奇妙的飞机可以载7名乘客。然而,最令人惊奇的是它能够在任何地方降落:雪地上,水面上,甚至刚耕过的田里。弗西特机长的第一名乘客是位医生,他从伯明翰飞往威尔士山区一个偏僻的村庄。从那时开始,弗西特机长已经载送乘客到过许多不寻常的地方。一次,他把飞机降落在了一栋公寓楼的屋顶上;还有一次,降落在了一个废弃的停车场上。弗西特机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的奇怪要求。这个人想要飞往大西洋上的一个孤岛 -- 罗卡尔岛,弗西特机长之所以不送他去,是因为那段飞行太危险了。
笔记:
现在完成时态(Present Perfect Tense),如句子中的“has bought”和“has flown”,表示动作已完成但与现在有关。例如,“I have seen that movie before.”表示“我以前看过那部电影”。
句子的主语和谓语动词的一致性(Subject-Verb Agreement)。例如,“The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane”中,“taxi”是单数,所以谓语动词“is”也要用单数形式。
形容词的比较级(Comparative Adjectives),如“lonely village”和“lonely island”。比较级通常用于比较两个事物的程度,例如“bigger”(更大)和“faster”(更快)
不定冠词(Indefinite Article)和定冠词(Definite Article),如“a doctor”和“the Welsh mountains”。不定冠词用于泛指一个事物,定冠词则用于特指某个事物。
介词短语(Prepositional Phrase),如“from Birmingham”和“in the Atlantic Ocean”。介词短语一般用于修饰名词或代词,并且通常放在名词或代词后面。
例如,句子中的“Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi”使用了现在完成时态,表示购买飞机的动作已经完成,但与现在有关。句子中的“lonely village”和“lonely island”使用了形容词的比较级,强调这些地方非常偏远和孤独。
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