No parking 禁止停車

【課文】

Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths. he has just bought a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with cars and their owners. When he returns home at night, he always finds that someone has parked a car outside his gate. Because of this, he has not been able to get his own car into his garage even once. Jasper has put up 'No Parking' signs outside his gate, but these have not had any effect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is one of the ugliest faces I have ever seen. I asked him what it was and he told me that it was Medusa, the Gorgon. jasper hopes that she will turn cars and their owners to stone. But none of them has been turned to stone yet!

【課文翻譯】

賈斯珀.懷特是少有的相信古代神話的人之一。他剛在城里買下一所新房子，但自從搬進去后，就和汽車及車主們發(fā)生了磨擦。當他夜里回到家時，總是發(fā)現(xiàn)有人把車停在他家大門外。為此，他甚至一次也沒能把自己的車開進車庫。賈斯珀曾把幾塊“禁止停車”的牌子掛在大門外邊，但沒有任何效果�，F(xiàn)在他把一個丑陋的石雕頭像放在了大門上邊，這是我見過的最丑陋的頭像之一。我問他那是什么?他告訴我那是蛇發(fā)女怪美杜莎。賈斯珀希望她把汽車和車主們都變成石頭。但到目前為止還沒有一個變成石頭呢!

【生詞和短語】

rare adj. 罕見的

ancient adj. 古代的，古老的

myth n. 神話故事

trouble n. 麻煩

effect n. 結果，效果

Medusa n. 美杜莎(古希臘神話中3位蛇發(fā)女怪這一)

Gorgon n. (古希臘神話中的)3位蛇發(fā)女怪這一(凡見其貌者都會變成石頭)

【知識點講解】

1 Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths.賈斯珀.懷特是少有的相信古代神話的人之一。

(1)區(qū)別believe和believe in的用法，believe someone指“相信某人所為”，believe in someone指“信賴某人的為人可靠”或“相信某人將有所作為”;

(2)如果動詞不是be，一般believe后用從句。

I believed (that) you belonged to that company.

我相信你屬于那家公司。

(3)當believe為被動語態(tài)時，后面習慣接不定式。

You are believed to be honest.

2 have trouble with sth/sb 某物出了麻煩，與某人相處起來有困難

I have trouble with my roommate.

我和我的室友相處起來有些問題。

相關短語：get sb into trouble 使某人陷入困境 in trouble 陷入困境

Nothing gives him more pleasure than helping someone in trouble.

沒有一件事要比幫助陷入困境的人帶給他更大的快樂。

3 復習一下定語從句的相關語法

關系代詞可以有四個概念：

a.代人的，做主語或賓語who只做賓語的whom

b.代物的，做主語或賓語 which

c.代人的也可以代物的 做主語或賓語 that

d.whose其代表的東西由其在句子中的成分決定

我有一個房子，房子的窗戶都破了。

I have a house whose windows are broken.

e.介詞后不可以用that

The school in which he once studied is very famous.

他曾上學的學校很出名。

4 But none of them has been turned to stone yet!

但到目前為止還沒有一個變成石頭呢!

turn to表示向……求助，與turn搭配的短語還有：

turn off 關掉 turn back 折回, 返回 turn out v.結果是, 生產(chǎn), 出... turn in 上繳, 拐入, 交還 in turn 輪流地

Please turn off the electric power.

請把電源關掉。

The film turned out to be a great success.

這部影片結果大獲成功。

She asked the same question of everyone in turn.

她依次向每一個人問同樣的問題。

5 It is one of the ugliest faces I have ever seen.

這是我見過的最丑陋的頭像之一

本句中有一個定語從句 I have ever seen,關系代詞that被省略了，原因是被修飾的名詞face在從句中做的是賓語，因此可以將關系代詞省去。

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