August 20th, 2009 
ghostlei } We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.
} What invariably happens … :
What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. 在这里，what invariably happens 是主语，由于它是一个句子，那就是主语从句。is 后面是一个句子，它又是一个表语从句。下边是这个结构比较简单的例子——
What you see is what you can get.
你看到的就是你的得到的；所见即所得。老外把它缩写成wysiwig ，听到老外这样说，你就要知道它是指这个意思。
} Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.
} Keep one eye on：
A:Would you like me to water your plants while
you are away?
B:Thanks for the offer, but Mark already said he‘d keep an eye on them.
A：你不在的时候需不需要我来照顾你的花花草草？
B：谢谢你的offer,但是Mark说他会帮我留意。
} Catastrophes/Catastrophic
Disaster/Disastrous
这两组词要特别注意词性不同，发音不同。
} You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
} hang up：
挂电话
Did you just hang up on me?
你是不是挂我电话了？
You gotta hang up cause we‘re gonna be late.
你得挂电话，不然我们要迟到了。
} attend：
Never leave you child unattended in a shopping cart.
这句话表达的意思是不要把孩子放在购物车上，自己去购物，这样不安全
} Unexpectedly：
Something came up unexpectedly and I can’t make it on Friday.
比如你跟别人约好了，但因为有些想不到的事发生导致不能去了，这时你就可以说这样的一句话。
} Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car.
} Scale：
在本课是规模的意思。
of our sale / of our size → Eric smith
这里我提到Eric smith是因为他在一次访谈中说，一个公司做到我们这种规模（ of our sale / of our size ），能打败我们的只有我们自己。这是一点都不夸张的。
scale (称), Eating disorder 进食失调
作为名词，scale 还有称东西的“称”这样的意思。有一次我的一个同学的roommate 得一种病叫做Eating disorder进食失调，或者叫饮食紊乱；她不能看到 scale,这会提醒她是不是变胖了。
} Collide：
Collision
} Panic：
Don’t panic.
不要慌；不要着急
} This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden.
} His wife was sitting beside him :
I am hearing what you are saying.
我在听着呢；我在听。像这种句子不能按时态来翻译。不能翻译成，我正在听你正在说的。
} Holding:
Can you hold it for me?
这里的hold 是拿着的意思。你可以帮我拿一下吗？
I’ll be holding you right here.
这里如果你说hold 的时候把手放在胸口，这句话就是在表达“你在我心里”的意思。
} Thrown:
Chinese throwing star
中国古装的武打片，那些飞镖啊之类的；老外是这样表达的。
} Windscreen: (All Weather) Windshield Wash
挡风玻璃 Windshield Wash洗刷挡风玻璃的那种液体，有冬天用的和夏天用的；all weather是指四季都可以用的。
} All of a Sudden：Suddenly
} The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
} Vehicle：
可以当作car 来讲，不止是指车辆
Do you have/ own a vehicle?
你有车吗？
} sweep up：
Clean up
这里的副词up给我的感觉是打扫得比较彻底，干净。
} left：
let’s pick it up where we left off.
让我们从上一次结束的时候开始。
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