No parking 禁止停车

【课文】

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!

【课文翻译】

贾斯珀.怀特是少有的相信古代神话的人之一。他刚在城里买下一所新房子，但自从搬进去后，就和汽车及车主们发生了磨擦。当他夜里回到家时，总是发现有人把车停在他家大门外。为此，他甚至一次也没能把自己的车开进车库。贾斯珀曾把几块“禁止停车”的牌子挂在大门外边，但没有任何效果。现在他把一个丑陋的石雕头像放在了大门上边，这是我见过的最丑陋的头像之一。我问他那是什么?他告诉我那是蛇发女怪美杜莎。贾斯珀希望她把汽车和车主们都变成石头。但到目前为止还没有一个变成石头呢!

【生词和短语】

rare adj. 罕见的

ancient adj. 古代的，古老的

myth n. 神话故事

trouble n. 麻烦

effect n. 结果，效果

Medusa n. 美杜莎(古希腊神话中3位蛇发女怪这一)

Gorgon n. (古希腊神话中的)3位蛇发女怪这一(凡见其貌者都会变成石头)

【知识点讲解】

1 Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths.贾斯珀.怀特是少有的相信古代神话的人之一。

(1)区别believe和believe in的用法，believe someone指“相信某人所为”，believe in someone指“信赖某人的为人可靠”或“相信某人将有所作为”;

(2)如果动词不是be，一般believe后用从句。

I believed (that) you belonged to that company.

我相信你属于那家公司。

(3)当believe为被动语态时，后面习惯接不定式。

You are believed to be honest.

2 have trouble with sth/sb 某物出了麻烦，与某人相处起来有困难

I have trouble with my roommate.

我和我的室友相处起来有些问题。

相关短语：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.

没有一件事要比帮助陷入困境的人带给他更大的快乐。

3 复习一下定语从句的相关语法

关系代词可以有四个概念：

a.代人的，做主语或宾语who只做宾语的whom

b.代物的，做主语或宾语 which

c.代人的也可以代物的 做主语或宾语 that

d.whose其代表的东西由其在句子中的成分决定

我有一个房子，房子的窗户都破了。

I have a house whose windows are broken.

e.介词后不可以用that

The school in which he once studied is very famous.

他曾上学的学校很出名。

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

但到目前为止还没有一个变成石头呢!

turn to表示向……求助，与turn搭配的短语还有：

turn off 关掉 turn back 折回, 返回 turn out v.结果是, 生产, 出... turn in 上缴, 拐入, 交还 in turn 轮流地

Please turn off the electric power.

请把电源关掉。

The film turned out to be a great success.

这部影片结果大获成功。

She asked the same question of everyone in turn.

她依次向每一个人问同样的问题。

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

这是我见过的最丑陋的头像之一

本句中有一个定语从句 I have ever seen,关系代词that被省略了，原因是被修饰的名词face在从句中做的是宾语，因此可以将关系代词省去。

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