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英语口语:精品五句(六)-It takes sb.(some time) to do sth.某人花了…时间做某事

线话英语|2011-09-21 15:04:51

It takes sb.(some time) to do sth.某人花了…时间做某事

记得一次让我的一个学生造句。我问她:请你翻译一下这句话——“我花了很长时间才明白”。她回答说:I understand it with a long time.可不是吗?with 就有"用"的意思。但是人家美国人就是不这么说啊,怎么办?改吧,要培养英语的思维,可不是一天两天的事。所以,今天就和Steven开始搞定It 开头的系列句型吧!

精品五句

普通句

It takes me a long time

我花了好长时间。

次级高手句

It takes me quite a long time。

我花了相当长的时间

高手句

It takes me quite a long time to understand.

我花了相当长的时间来理解

超级高手句

It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting。

我花了相当长的时间才理解那幅画的意义。

专家句

It takes me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by Picasso。

我花了相当长的时间才理解毕加索的那幅画的意义。

解句

It takes me quite a long time to understand(核心句)

+the meaning of the paining by Picasso.(加个理解对象试试看。)

编辑部的故事

(One of their partners gave Tangle two tickets to an art work exhibition.Steven accompanied him to go there.)

(他们的合作伙伴送给Tangle两张艺术作品展的票。Steven陪他一起去那儿。)

Tangle:Hey,Whose work are you looking at?

                  嘿!你在看谁的作品?

Steven:Picasso's.But I hate him

              毕加索的。但是我讨厌他。

Tangle:Why?

             怎么了?

Steven:'Cuz he makes me look like stupid.I don't even have an idea about what he wanted to convey by the works.

               因为他的作品总是使我看起来很蠢。我甚至对他想通过作品表达的思想一无所知。

Tangle:Well,it look me quite a long time to understand the meaning of the painting by him

                嗯,我也是花了好长时间才明白他作品的含义的。

Steven:But I don't even understand a single work of his.Does that mean I don't have a taste for art?

              但是,他的一部作品我都不懂。这是不是说明我没有艺术品味?

Tangle:Not really,you have a very elegant dressing style.Also you have a very good sense of colours. He is an abstractismartist.His works are always hard to understand.

               不见得。你对服装的品味很高雅。还有你对颜色的感觉也很好。他是抽象派的画家。他的作品总是很难理解的。

Steven:Some of his works look like my 5-year-old cousin's.But I don't even understand.

                他的一些作品看起来有些像我5岁的表弟画的。但是我还是不能理解。

Tangle:Believe me! You won't suddenly understand his works by keeping on saying that.

              相信我!你一直这样说下去,也不会突然明白他的作品的。

 

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