Lesson 29 Taxi!

taxi n.出租车
同义词:cab n.出租车
相关:taxi meter计价器
taxi stand = taxi rank 出租车站
call ataxi 叫车，打车
例句:对不起,请问出租车站在哪里?
Excuse me, do you know where the taxi rank is please?

land v.着陆，登陆n.陆地
搭配: land on …在…着陆
highland 高地
motherland 祖国
很多地名都有land构成:
Iceland 冰岛
Greenland 格陵兰
Ireland 爱尔兰
Thailand 泰国
Scotland 苏格兰
例句:宇宙飞船最终在地球着陆。
The spaceship finally landed on the earth.
例句:我家门前有一片湿地。
There is a piece of wetland in front of my home.
例句:无论我身在何处，我深深地爱着我的祖国。
Wherever I am, I deeply love my motherland.

plough v.耕地，开垦 n.耕地，北斗七星
搭配:plough on 坚持不懈
例句:在古罗马时期，11月是辛勤耕耘和播种的月份。
In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.
例句:如果我们一直犁到天黑,就可以把这块地犁完了。
If we plough on until it’s dark, we should get this field finished.

lonely a.偏僻的，人迹罕至的,孤独的
搭配:lonely hearts 交友广告
区别:alonea.一个人的[没有感情色彩]
例句:在陌生的城里只身一人，
我感到不知所
措、孤单寂寞。
I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone.
例句:他在一份杂志上刊登了征友广告。
He placed a lonely hearts ad in a magazine.

roof n.屋顶，口腔顶部
区别:ceiling n.天花板
搭配:go through the roof 非常高 暴跳如雷
例句:昨晚，其中几个犯人出现在房顶上。
Last night some of the prisoners appeared on the roof.
例句:韩国艺术品的价格飞涨。
Prices for Korean art have gone through the roof.

block n.一座大楼，街区，块 v.阻挡
搭配: a block of … 一块…
put one’s head on the block 铤而走险
例句:他绕着这个街区转了3圈。
He walked around the block three times.
例句:Vincent铤而走险枪银行。
Vincent put his head on the block to rob the bank.

flat n.公寓a.平的
相似: apartment 公寓
unit 公寓
house大房子
town house 两层房子
villa 别墅
搭配:flat shoes 平底鞋
high heel shoes高跟鞋
flat feet 扁平足

desert v.废弃
例句:年轻职工对不喜欢的工作容易擅自离职。
Young workers are more willing to desert
jobs they don’t like.
例句:他们驱车600英里穿越沙漠。
They drove 600 miles across the desert.

课文部分

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.

语言点

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
笨机长入手的士兮，运营一项新业务。
unusual a.不寻常的
构成:un-否定前缀“不”usual a.普通的
相关:usually adv.经常地
带“un”的词:
lock v.锁定 unlock v.解锁
comfortable a.舒服的 uncomfortable a.不舒服的
unreal a.不真实的 unfriendly a.不友善的
unwelcome a.不受欢迎的 unhouse v.赶出家去

The ‘taxi’ is a small Swiss plane called a ‘Pilatus porter’
的士与众不同兮，出身原是瑞士出产小飞机。
引号的用法:英文中单引号和双引号区别不大
直接引语 He said, “Hello, girl!”
特殊含义或者表示强调He is so “good”
书名号“Gone with wind”
Swiss a.瑞士的n.瑞士人，瑞士语
Switzerland n.瑞士

It can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.
飞机着陆无敌兮，风雪河流耕地全驾驭。
even ad.甚至，即使，更加 a.公平的，平等的,平坦的
例句:他特别喜欢读书，在早晨，在下午，甚至在半夜。
He likes reading so much: in the morning, afternoon, or even at midnight.
例句:Conan说得比平常还要慢。
Conan was speaking even more slowly than usual.
例句:我需要一个平坦的桌子面。
I need an even desk surface.

Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
机长坚守原则兮，商贾刁蛮被鄙夷。
refuse v.拒绝
用法:refuse to+动词原形拒绝做… from+人
refuse+名词/代词 柜绝.
搭配:too good to refuse难以拒绝[条件太好]
例句:他请我再喝一杯，我没有接受。
He offered me a second drink which I refused.
例句:他给我们的礼物太难柜绝。
He qave us a qift which is too good to refuse.