第一、重點短語:
1. help somebody out:幫助......解決苦難,幫助......擺脫困將
例句:All these pianos came to more money than I had, and my mother borrowed much money to help me out.
我的錢不夠買所有這些禮物,我母親只好借了我一些錢。
2. be surrounded with:為......環繞著,為......簇擁著
例句:The young violinist was surrounded with people.
不久,年輕的小提琴手周圍聚集了人。
She has always been surrounded with fashionable friends.
她周圍總有許多愛趕時髦的朋友。
The school was surrounded with a fence.
學校四周圍著籬笆。
This is a house surrounded with trees and flowers.
這是花草樹木環繞周圍的房子。
We are surrounded with dangers.
我們危機四伏。
3. be capable of:有......可能的
例句:It is capable of arousing interest or curiosity.
這個有可能引起興趣或好奇心的。
Is the kid capable of understanding this?
這個孩子能理解這事嗎?
4. in the years of:在......的歲月里
例句:My parents was bore and grown up in the years of unrest.
我的父母出生于動亂的年代,也在這樣的年代里成長。
Unfortunately she died in the years of war at the age of only thirty-one.
可惜的是她31歲時便在戰亂的歲月里離開人世。
第二、其他短語
1. a noisy extrovert:健談的愛社交的人
2. matter a lot:非常重要
3. share a past:以前就認識,舊識
4. share the same tutors:師出同門
5. share the same childhood traumas:有著同樣不幸的童年
6. orphans of the scaffold:絞刑架下的孤兒
7. that sort of:那種