Listen to the tape then answer this question.
What is Susan's favourite colour?
听录音,然后回答问题。苏珊最喜欢哪种颜色?
DAN:You're working hard, George.
What are you doing?
GEORGE:I'm making a bookcase.
GEORGE:Give me that hammer please, Dan.
DAN:Which hammer?
This one?
GEORGE:No, not that one.
The big one.
DAN:Here you are.
GEORGE:Thanks, Dan.
DAN:What are you going to do now, George?
GEORGE:I'm going to paint it.
DAN:What colour are you going to paint it?
GEORGE:I'm going to paint it pink.
DAN:Pink!
GEORGE:This bookcase isn't for me.
It's for my daughter, Susan.
Pink's her favourite colour.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
work /wə:k/ v. 工作
hard /hɑ:d/ adv. 努力地
make /meik/ v. 做
bookcase /'buk-keis/ n. 书橱,书架
hammer /'hæmə/ n. 锤子
paint /peint/ v. 上漆,涂
pink /piŋk/ n. & adj. 粉红色
favourite /'feivərit/ adj. 最喜欢的
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 You're working hard, George. 在这句话中hard是一个副词,修饰动词work, 有“努力地”、“费劲地”的意思。hard还常常与表示动作、举止的动词连用,如work, listen, play, try等,用来加强动作的强度,常译成“拼命地”。
2 What are you going to do now, George?
你现在准备做什么,乔治?
be going to, 是“打算”、“准备”、“按计划”在最近做某事,表示将来。
3 paint it pink,
it指bookcase, 是宾语,pink是宾语补足语。
参考译文
丹:你干得真辛苦,乔治。你在干什么呢?
乔治:我正在做书架。
乔治:请把那把锤子拿给我,丹。
丹:哪一把?是这把吗?
乔治:不,不是那把。是那把大的。
丹:给你。
乔治:谢谢,丹。
丹:你现在打算干什么,乔治?
乔治:我打算把它漆一下。
丹:你打算把它漆成什么颜色?
乔治:我想漆成粉红色。
丹:粉红色!
乔治:这个书架不是为我做的,是为我的女儿苏珊做的。粉红色是她最喜欢的颜色。