Too Long
太久
The travel editor of a newspaper called, saying she was finally using an article I had written several years earlier.
一家報紙的旅行版編輯打開電話,說她終于決定要采用一篇我幾年前寫的文章。
She wanted to be sure the tour information was still correct.
她想確定那旅游信息是否還可靠。
"I also wanted to make certain," she sheepishly confessed, "that you're still alive.
“我還想確定,”她怯怯地坦白道:“您是否還健在。
Whenever the writer has died, I know I've held a story too long."
每次發現作者已經不在人世了,我才知道我將文章壓得太久了。”
1.too Long
在這里我們看到too的用法
副詞too是一個司空見慣的詞,然而,對它進行總結和分析,就會發現其非常有價值的用法。
由too構成的短語,常用的有如下一些:
1)all too實在太(很),all too soon /quickly太早(太快)。例如:
The holidays ended all too soon.假期結束得太早了。
2)none too一點也不。例如:
We were none too early for the train.我們剛好趕上火車。
3)only too極其,非常。例如:
We shall be only too pleased to hear from you further.我們非常歡迎你再來信。(注意這里不是too...to...結構)
4)quite too簡直太…例如:
It’s quite too surprising!這簡直太讓人吃驚了!
5)rather too稍微……了一點。例如:
The soup is rather too salty.湯稍微咸了一點。
6)too…to…太……以至不能……。例如:
The boy is too weak to lift the heavy box.這男孩太虛弱,舉不起那個重箱子。
2.make certain
make certain=to make sure
3.sheepishly confess
sheep是綿羊的意思,所以這個形容詞非常形象,像綿羊一樣溫馴的,膽怯的。
confess是懺悔的意思,用在文章中形容編輯怯怯的心情是最合適不過的了。