经典语段:
The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall,and at one end the master and two women served the food.
济贫院里男孩子们吃饭的地方是一间有石板墙石板地的大屋子,在屋子的一头,管事的和两位女佣负责给孩子们打饭。
This consisted of a bowl of thin soup three times a day, with a piece of bread on Sundays.
其实这一日三餐顿顿只是一碗稀粥,只有在星期天才加一片面包。
The boys ate everything and were always hungry.
孩子们把碗里的东西吃得一干二净,还是饥肠辘辘。
The bowls never needed washing. The boys polished them with their spoons until they shone.
他们的碗根本不用刷洗。孩子们用勺子把碗刮得锃亮。
After three months of this slow starvation,one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who slept next to him.
这样缓慢的挨饿持续了三个月后,一天,一个男孩跟别的男孩子说他太饿了,没准哪天晚上他会吃了睡在他边上的人。
He had a wild hungry eye,and the other boys believed him.
他那饥饿得发狂的眼神让别的男孩无法不相信他的话。
After a long discussion,They decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening,and Oliver was chosen.
经过长时间的商量,他们决定必须有一个人在当天晚饭后,去请求多给点儿吃的。结果,奥利弗被选中了。
语段讲解:
第一、词汇精讲
1. feed
双语释义:give food to (a person or an animal)
[vt.] 给(人或动物)食物
语法用法:~somebody ( something ) on something
典型范例:The baby can't feed itself yet.
这婴儿还不会自己吃东西。
What do you feed your dog on?
你用什么喂狗?
2. starvation
双语释义:the state of suffering and death caused by having no food
[U.N.] 饥饿;饿死
典型范例:The Smiths brushed up against starvation because Mr. Smith couldn't find a job.
史密斯先生找不到工作,因此他们一家面临饥饿。
It was a race against time to stop people dying from starvation.
为抢救那些即将饿死的人而分秒必争。
第二、加分短语
1. consist of :由......组成
范例:A week consist of seven days.
一星期由七天组成。
2. so ... that....:太......以至于......
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