英語(yǔ)口語(yǔ)練習(xí)小對(duì)話 第424期:正要去做某事;就要......

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　　A: I was just about to go to bed when the telephone rang last night.

　　昨晚我正要上床睡覺(jué)，電話鈴響了。

　　B: Who was it?

　　是誰(shuí)打來(lái)的?

　　A: Kate. She said she was too excited to go to sleep.

　　凱特，她說(shuō)她自己興奮得睡不著。

　　B: She never cares about others.

　　她從不替別人著想。

　　A: It’s true. Guess what we were talking about last night.

　　是呀，你猜我們昨晚在說(shuō)什么。

　　B: Her new boyfriend, right?

　　她的新男友，對(duì)吧?

　　A: Yeah, how do you know about that?

　　是的，你怎么知道呢?

　　B: I was also interrupted by her last week because of such a thing.

　　她是因?yàn)榇耸律现芤泊驍囘^(guò)我。

　　第二、地道核心表達(dá)

　　【核心短語(yǔ)】be about to

　　【解詞釋義】此語(yǔ)的意思是“剛要，即將”。有時(shí)候be可以用seem來(lái)代替。此語(yǔ)的否定形式not be about to do something則是強(qiáng)調(diào)“無(wú)意做某事”。

　　【典型例句1】 He was about to speak.Again he bottled himself up.

　　他想說(shuō)話又忍住了。

　　【典型例句2】I had an intuition that something awful was about to happen.

　　我直覺(jué)感到要出亂子了。

　　【典型例句3】 His company was about to fail, but the bank saw him through.

　　他的公司幾乎破產(chǎn), 但銀行幫他渡過(guò)了難關(guān)。

　　【典型例句4】 He called at an inopportune moment, when we were about to go out.

　　他來(lái)得真不是時(shí)候，我們正準(zhǔn)備外出。

　　第二、詞海拾貝

　　care about：擔(dān)心.......，關(guān)心......

　　【典型例句1】A selfish person does not care about other people's problem.

　　自私的人是不關(guān)心別人的困難的。

　　【典型例句2】 You say you care about the poor, but you don't help them. You hypocrite!

　　你說(shuō)你關(guān)懷窮人, 可你并不幫助他們, 你這偽君子!

　　【典型例句3】 I don't care about what you think; save your breath to cool your porridge!

　　我不在乎你怎么想, 你省點(diǎn)力氣,別白費(fèi)口舌了!

　　【典型例句4】The capitalists only care about the accumulation of wealth.

　　資本家只顧積累財(cái)富。

　　know about：知道，了解......的情況

　　【典型例句1】 Keep quiet, we don't want the whole world to know about it.

　　安靜些，我們可不想讓人人都知道這件事。

　　【典型例句2】Now I want to know about this thing from beginning to end.

　　我現(xiàn)在想源源本本地了解此事。

　　talk about：談?wù)?.....

　　【典型例句1】 He delights to talk about his family in the office.

　　他喜歡在辦公室談?wù)撍依锏氖隆?/p>

　　【典型例句2】 The class separated into several smaller groups to talk about the subject.

　　這個(gè)班的學(xué)生分成了幾個(gè)小組討論這個(gè)問(wèn)題。

　　第三、 句海拾貝

　　【句型模板】Somebody is too+adj.+to do something.

　　【指點(diǎn)迷津】too...to是太........而不能......。

　　【句型操練】I am too tired to hit a shower.

　　我太累了，連洗澡都沒(méi)力氣了。