Quick work 破案"神速"

Dan Robinson has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!

【课文翻译】

丹.鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他到警察局去一趟。丹奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他一再担心了。在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他，他的自行车找到了。那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他运回家来。丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到。这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的!

【生词和短语】

station n. (警察)局

most adv. 相当，非常

【知识点讲解】

1 In the letter he was asked to call at the station.

上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他到警察局去一趟。

call 后加不同的介词，表达的意思不尽相同。常见的搭配方式有：

call back 回电话, 收回 call in 召集, 召来, ... call on 号召, 拜访, 请求

call out 出动, 召集, 大声叫喊 call at 拜访 call up 给 ... 打电话...

I'm very busy now. Please call back later.

我现在很忙，请过一会儿再来电话吧。

He is ill; you should call in the doctor right away.

他病了，你应该立即请大夫来。

Tomorrow I'll pay a call on him.

明天我将要去拜访他。

2 Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.

那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他运回家来。

(1)本句中，the policeman told him是个插入成分，在讲故事时经常使用这种表达法。

(2)pick up 此处是“意外找到”地意思捡起，还有收集、 继续、 得到、 接人、偶然结识等意思

He bent down to pick up the coin.

他弯下腰来，捡起硬币。

She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.

她到法国居住後很快就学会了法语。

(3)five miles away这一类结构可以直接作定语，放在被修饰词后面。

I live in the house five miles away。

我家离这里有五英里远。

3 It is now being sent to his home by train.

现在正用火车给他运回家来。

当被动语态用在现在进行时中，要在助动词be后面加上-ing,再加上现在分词。

The building is being repaired by the workers.

工人们正在装修大楼。

4 Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.

丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分。

most surprised中的most不是表示最高级，而是相当于very，作形容词使用，常常与起形容词作用的过去分词连用。

When I heard this news, I was most shocked.

当我听到这个消息后，我万分震惊。

This is the area that attracts the most attention.

这是极受关注的地区。

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