还是学英语吧

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-22 11:24
属于换位思考？
你要来就来吧，反正也拦不住。也不用你随礼就是了。

无成本的尝试皆大欢喜

tina50

The newlyweds were joined by 24,000 guests; some renewing their marriage vows and others watching friends and family tie the knot.


This is not a compound sentence, but a complex sentence which contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.

Subject: The newlyweds
Verb: were joined, passive voice,
Adverbial: by 24,000 guests

tina50

Australia’s etiquette queen, June Dally-Watkins was born in 1927 in Sydney,Australia. An illegitimate child, she was raised by her mother and grandparents.

In 1950, she established the June Dally-Watkins School in Sydney to train young women in deportment and etiquette. Further more, one year later, she established Australia’s first modelling agency and business college.

She went on to marry naval officer John Clifford in 1953 and, at a time when many women were expected to remain in the home, Dally-Watkins attracted criticism for continuing to work while raising their four children. The couple divorced in 1968.

Dally-Watkins was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to business in 1993.

More recently, she taught etiquette to millions of students across China, after co-founding the Dally Institute in Guangzhou in 2013.

Watkins died on 22 February 2020, aged 92. She is survived by four children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

tina50

bigcrow

tina50 发表于 2020-2-24 16:40
Australia’s etiquette queen, June Dally-Watkins was born in 1927 in Sydney,Australia. An illegitima ...

怎么样才能成为一个慈祥优雅的老人
她修炼了一生，算是回答了版主的问题？

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-24 21:02
怎么样才能成为一个慈祥优雅的老人
她修炼了一生，算是回答了版主的问题？ ...

终其一生来修炼，可见是个苦猜事

tina50

检疫隔离的历史 （Quarantine）

Quarantine is something that's been used to stop the spread of diseases for thousands of years. But the name actually comes from Venice. In the 1300s, authorities there were trying to stop the spread of the bubonic plague or Black Death which was killing millions of people throughout Europe. So, they ordered that all passengers on arriving ships had to wait on-board for 40 days or 'quaranta giorni' to make sure they weren't sick. Eventually that became quarantine.

It's always been controversial because it means taking away people's freedom just because they're sick, or because there's a chance they're sick. But for centuries it was one of the few things we could do to stop the spread of deadly diseases like yellow fever, cholera, smallpox and the Spanish flu.

tina50

接上

终止疫情的两大法宝是疫苗和较好的治疗措施，目前世界范围内传播的武汉肺炎都不具备，所以quarantine就是必然的结果了。


Australia has some of the strictest quarantine laws in the world when it comes to the plants and animals that are allowed in the country. But it's really rare to hear about people being quarantined. The reason it's happening now is because there isn't a vaccine or a cure yet for COVID-19 and governments around the world want to try to stop it from spreading

bigcrow

tina50 发表于 2020-2-25 07:48
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终止疫情的两大法宝是疫苗和较好的治疗措施，目前世界范围内传播的武汉肺炎都不具备，所以quarantine ...

必然的结果不允许controversial

bigcrow

tina50 发表于 2020-2-25 07:48
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终止疫情的两大法宝是疫苗和较好的治疗措施，目前世界范围内传播的武汉肺炎都不具备，所以quarantine ...

请使用官方名字

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-25 12:50
必然的结果不允许controversial

凡是有人群的地方就有左中右，有不同意见正常啊，但是阻挡不了隔离政策的推出，因为别无他法。

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-25 12:59
请使用官方名字

好的虚心接受COVID-19

bigcrow

现代女性与礼仪皇后
June Dally-Watkins's take on etiquette may seem outdated but there's a lot to like about being polite
新闻插图

图片文字
Housewife advice books
Most literature on etiquette keeps women in gender prison.

tina50

June Dally-Watkins's take on etiquette may seem outdated but there's a lot to like about being polite

This is a compound sentence
June Dally-Watkins's take on etiquette may seem outdated + (but) there's a lot to like about being polite

For the first clause, June Dally-Watkins's take on etiquette may seem outdated
Subject: June Dally-Watkins's take
Take=view or opinion
Verb: may seem
someone’s take on something=someone’s attitude or opinion about a situation. Eg. What’s your take on the oil crisis?

For the second sentence,
Subject: a lot
Verb: is

There’s a lot to like about...

tina50

非常有个性的一个人：

June Dally-Watkins, Australian model and deportment icon, dies aged 92

Dally-Watkins's daughter Lisa Clifford told the Sydney Morning Herald her mother encouraged her to be independent: "Work. Get a job. He might leave you so you must have a career to fall back on."

To fall back on 依靠
If you are nothing to fall back on, you’ll feel helpless.

tina50

A new study has found that antisocial people are more likely to have smaller areas of their brain. Researchers said criminals' brains had a different structure to the brains of people who followed the law. The study is published in the journal "Lancet Psychiatry". Researchers used data from 672 people born in 1972-73. They looked at records of the people's antisocial behaviour between the ages of seven and 26. At the age of 45, the researchers scanned the people's brains. Eighty of the people had a history of criminal and antisocial behaviour from being early teenagers. Researchers found that the areas of the brain linked to emotions, motivation and behaviour control were smaller in the long-term criminals' brains.

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A study found that antisocial people could have smaller areas of the brain. It said criminals' brains had a different structure to the brains of non-criminals. Researchers looked at records of 672 people aged between seven and 26. At the age of 45, the researchers scanned their brains. Eighty of them were antisocial from their early teens. The areas of their brain that were linked to emotions, motivation and behaviour control were smaller in these people.

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are more likely to have = could have
Researchers said  = It said
of people who followed the law = of non-criminals

used data from 672 people born in 1972-73. They looked at records of the people's antisocial behaviour between the ages of seven and 26. = looked at records of 672 people aged between seven and 26.

had a history of criminal and antisocial behaviour from being early teenagers. = were antisocial from their early teens.

Researchers found that the areas of the brain = The areas of their brain

were smaller in the long-term criminals' brains. = were smaller in these people.

tina50

继续谈论Australia’s etiquette queen，没想到她竟然是澳大利亚第一位拥有自己的车的女性

Dally-Watkins told the ABC she had been the first Australian woman to own her own car, which she loved to drive around her home town of Watsons Creek, near Tamworth in northern NSW.

tina50

重温一下语法

"There ARE a lot of animals" is incorrect. "Lot" is the subject of the sentence and it is singular. "Is" goes with a singular subject, "are" goes with a plural subject.

"There ARE lots" is correct because the subject "LOTS" is plural.

When you say..."There IS a lot of animals"...that is correct. "Animals" is plural but it's not the subject. It's the object of the preposition "of".

This is also INCORRECT..."There was an accident. But none of the passengers WERE injured".
The correct way is...."But none of the passengers WAS injured".
"Passengers" is not the subject but the object of the preposition "of".
"None" is the subject. It's singular because "None" is short for "not one".
If you're asked..."how many were injured?". You wouldn't say..."Not one were". You'd say..."Not one was"

bigcrow

tina50 发表于 2020-2-26 20:23
重温一下语法

"There ARE a lot of animals" is incorrect. "Lot" is the subject of the sentence and it ...

也重温一下语法：
A lot of, lots of with a noun
We use a lot of and lots of in informal styles. Lots of is more informal than a lot of. A lot of and lots of can both be used with plural countable nouns and with singular uncountable nouns for affirmatives, negatives, and questions:

That’s a lot of money.
There weren’t a lot of choices.
Are there a lot of good players at your tennis club?

It is not the phrase a lot of or lots of which determines singular or plural,
but the noun of the sentence (here: water and computers).
Singular
A lot of water is wasted.
Lots of water is wasted.
Plural
A lot of computers are needed at schools.
Lots of computers are needed at schools.

tina50

接着复习语法，早晨看一个帖子讨论 a lot of, 其中一个回帖挺有意思的（内容见楼上的楼上），接着来看phil老师如何讲

Do we say “There is a lot…” or “There are a lot of…”? This question was put to me recently by a student who noted that “lot” is the first noun after a verb. In theory, the verb should be singular with “a lot of”, because it is a singular “lot”. Comparing “There are a lot of apples.” and “There is a lot of apples.”, this sounds incorrect, however. Why?

tina50

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When should “to be” agree with the first noun?

With a sentence covering states, the noun typically agrees with the first noun, such as There is a car. or They are rocks.

The verb “to be” describes the noun, and therefore agrees with whether the noun is singular or plural. This can become confusing, however, when “to be” describes a singular noun that groups a plural: nouns such as couple, pair, group, and crowd may all be followed by plurals, but are treated, grammatically, as singular, as they represent one single unit.

Consider that “a couple of people” is one object (a couple), because it combines two separate objects (two people) into one unit. Similarly, “a group of doctors”, “a crowd of onlookers”, “a swarm of bees”. The opposite would be true if we defined a group by a plural number or an adverb expressing a plural: “many chairs” and “twelve nurses”, for example, express plurals that are not grouped into one unit.

Usually, the first noun defines the quantity (and tells us “how many”), and with sentences describing states the verb “to be” will agree with the first noun.

There is a group of librarians waiting for you.
There are hundreds of clowns coming.

tina50

接上，继续

Why doesn’t this work for “There are a lot of / There is a lot”?

The ambiguity here comes from “a lot of” appearing to be a noun phrase when it’s actually not used in the same way.

It is used not as a grouping noun but like a quantifying adverb, like “many”. While a singular verb is appropriate with nouns that define the plural into a singular group, “a lot of” refers to a quantity rather than a grouped unit – modifying the verb as “many” would.

So the verb agrees with the noun that “a lot of” qualifies, rather than “a lot”. We can therefore have either “are a lot of” or “is a lot of” depending on the noun. Mostly, we will use “There are a lot of” with countable nouns, when we discuss plurals, and “There is a lot of” with uncountable nouns.

There are a lot of apples.
There is a lot of meat.

It’s deceptive, but a good example of how exceptions to some of the simple rules of English can work – because words can be used for functions that are not what they immediately appear to be.

tina50

接上，继续

那么“Wow, that’s a lot!” 到底对不对呢？老师说要看上下文了，比如

A：“I own twenty chickens.”

B：“That [number of chickens] is a lot.”

tina50

接上，继续

Michael Swan’s Practical English Usage：

“It is the subject, and not the form lot/lots, that makes a following verb singular or plural. So when a lot of is used before a plural subject, the verb is plural; when lots of is used before a singular subject, the verb is singular.”

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哈哈哈。。。，感觉语法就是绕人的，把你绕糊涂为止。所以学习语言最简单的方法就是，母语的人怎么说，咱就怎么说，别问那么多为什么。

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-27 21:30
也重温一下语法：
A lot of, lots of with a noun
We use a lot of and lots of in informal styles. Lot ...

剑桥英语词典

tina50

Anne Frank

This month marks 75 years since the death of Anne Frank. We find out more about this famous Jewish teenager and how her diary has taught generations of young people about the horrors of the Holocaust.

In early 1942, Anne Frank was your average teenager. She lived with her family in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and loved reading and writing. When she was 13, she started keeping a diary, which she named Kitty.


https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/anne-frank/11981700

tina50

ANNE FRANK DIARY ENTRY JUNE 12, 1942: Dear Kitty, I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

Little did she know that her diary would one day become one of the most famous books in the world. You see, Anne was growing up in a world that was at war for a second time. She and her family had fled from Germany to the Netherlands to escape this man, Adolf Hitler and his political party known as the Nazis. Hitler was obsessed with the idea of a "pure" German race which he called "Aryan" and he wanted that race to control all of Europe.

bigcrow

tina50 发表于 2020-2-27 23:33
接上，继续

Michael Swan’s Practical English Usage：

先有语言后有语法。
词汇量大的话，把单词串起来也能让人明白。

tina50

bigcrow 发表于 2020-2-29 17:36
先有语言后有语法。
词汇量大的话，把单词串起来也能让人明白。

多比少好

tina50

接上

In early 1942, Anne Frank was your average teenager.

In spoken English, a speaker sometimes uses your before an adjective such as ' typical' or ' normal' to indicate that the thing referred to is a typical example of its type. E.g.

It's just your average wooden door.