2018-11-13

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Good morning, Mr. chips(早起,精读)

DAY1.

第一章:

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.   

1.get on in years 变老,2.like lazy cattle moving across a landscape,形容老人时间过的很慢,写的很好

sprightliness同意词exuberance

Rarely did he read more than a page of it ……

But Brookfield he had liked.

倒装句,英文中很常见(Rarely would we say like this.)

wind up过去时wound up 给闹钟上发条

who're going to die a really natural death. That is, of course, if you die at all.

1.die a… death/ die a hero/ die young  2.if you die at all 口语中很常见

put in for 申请 

gather:  suppose /think 

strong pint: strong suit, forte

queer 奇怪的 courteous 有礼貌的  recollection     注意读音

Take up a firm attitude from the beginning.很实用的话例如: take up a chanllenge

Decent little beggars individually, but, as a mob, just pitiless and implacable.

implacable:relentless, implacable badgering(出自生活大爆炸)

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