I. Reading 阅读
Fred's having a party, but he's very embarrassed. There are many people at his party, but there's very little food. There's very little meat. There isn't much rice, either. There are only a few cans of coke and a little orange juice. However, everyone is happy at the party because there's plenty of beer.
弗雷德在开宴会，但是他觉得很不好事思。赴宴的人很多，不过菜却很少。肉很少，饭也不够多。只有几罐可乐和一些橙汁。不过，因为啤酒很多，所以宴会上每个人都很高兴。
II. Vocabulary & Idioms 单词短语注解
- embarrassed [ɪm'bærəst] a. 困窘的, 不好意思的
例: I am embarrassed to wear dirty clothes
( 穿脏衣服让我觉得很不好意思 。 ) - many ['mɛni] a. 许多的 ( 之后接复数名词 )
例: Mr. Lee has many children.
( 李先生有许多孩子 。 ) - little ['lɪtl] a. 很少的 ( 之后接不可数名词 )
例: I have very little homework tonight.
( 我今晚的功课很少 。) - food [fud] n. 食物 ( 不可数 )
- meat [mit] n. 肉 ( 不可数 )
- much [mʌtʃ] a. 许多的 ( 之后接不可数名词 )
- rice [raɪs] n. 米, 饭 ( 不可数 )
- few [fju] a. 很少的, 没几个 ( 之后接复数名词 )
only a few 只有几个
例: Only a few of my friends smoke cigarettes.
( 我的朋友中只有少数人抽烟 。) - can [kæn] n. 罐头
- coke [kok] n. 可乐 ( COCA - COLA 可口可乐的缩写形 )
- orange ['ɔrɪndʒ] n. 橙
- juice [dʒus] n. 果汁
- plenty ['plɛnti] pron.充分，够多
plenty of... 很多的······，不少的····· (之后可接复数名词或不可数名词)
例: There's plenty of coffee and tea in the kitchen.
(厨房里有很多的咖啡和茶。) - beer [bɪr] n.啤酒
III. Grammar Points 语法重点
本课介绍表示数量的形容词(如many、few、little、much等)的用法。
这些形容词亦称不定代词，有的之后要接复数名词，有的只能接不可数名词，有的则两者皆可。兹列述如下：
1.之后须接复数名词者
few 有少数，没几个
a few 有几个
several 数个(意思接近a few,但可能数目较a few多。)
many 许多个
例: He has few friends.
(他没几个朋友——他的朋友很少。)
I have a few friends.
(我有几个朋友。)
She has many friends.
(她有许多朋友。)
注意:
a. few表示“没几个”，有否定意味；a few表示“有几个”，有肯定意味。
b. quite a few 不少的，相当多的(=many)
例: He has quite a few friends.
(他朋友不少。)
c. only a few只有几个(=few 没儿个)
例: Mary has only few friends ( X )
→ Mary has only a few friends. ( O )
(玛丽只有几位朋友。)
- 之后须接不可数名词者：
little 很少，没多少
a little 有一点
much 许多
例: He has little money.
(他没多少钱——他儿乎没钱。)
He has a little money.
(他有一点钱。)
He doesn't have much money.
(他的钱不多。)
注意:
a. little表示“没多少”，有否定意味；a little 表示“有一点”，有肯定意味。
b. quite a little 不少的，相当多的
例: He has quite a little money.
(他的钱不少。)
c. much用于否定句中，而不用于肯定句中。肯定句应使用a lot of或lots of。
例: He has much money. ( X )
→He doesn't have much money. ( O )
(他的钱不多。)
He has lots of / a lot of money. ( O )
(他有许多钱。)
d. a great deal of 亦表示“许多的、大量的”，之后须接不可数名词。
例: He has a great deal of money.
=He has a lot of money.
=He has lots of money.
(他有许多钱。) - 之后可接复数名词或不可数名词者:
some 一些
a lot of(=lots of) 许多的
plenty of 不少的，相当多的
例: He has some friends/money.
(他有一些朋友/钱。)
He has a lot of (lots of) friends/money.
(他有许多朋友钱。)
He has plenty of friends/money.
(他有不少朋友/钱。)
IV. Substitution 替换
- There are many people at his party.
There are only a few people at his party.
There aren't a lot of people at his party.
(他的宴会上有许多人。)
(他的宴会上只有少数几个人。)
(他的宴会上并没有很多人。) - There are only a few cans of coke and a little orange juice.
There are a lot of vegetables, but there isn't much meat.
There is plenty of food, but there aren't many drinks.
(只有几罐可乐和一些橙汁。)
(有许多蔬菜，但肉并不多。)
(有不少莱，但饮料并不多。)
