重點句型
1. He and a colleague were to spend two years there teaching English at a teacher training college.
他和一位同事要在一所教師培訓學院教兩年英語。
2. Nearly 100 million people live here, most of them in the east.
差不多一億人口住在此地,絕大多數在東部。
句型探究
1. He and a colleague were to spend two years there teaching English at a teacher training college.
他和一位同事要在一所教師培訓學院教兩年英語。
be to do 常表示以下意義:
① 表示按計劃或安排要做某事;
② 表示“應該”,相當于should, ought to;
③ 表示“命令,要求”;
④ 表示“想,打算”;
⑤ 表示“注定,不可避免”做某事。
⑥ 在否定句中表“禁止”。
The plane is to take off at 2:30.
這架飛機將在2:30 起飛。
The books you borrowed are to be returned before May 7.
你借的圖書應在5月7日前歸還。
The letter is to be typed as soon as possible.
這封信必須盡快打印出來。
If you are to be there on time, you must go now.
如果你打算按時趕到那兒,你必須現在就走。
You are to be regretful for what you have done.
你會對你所做的事后悔的。
You are not to make any noise in the reading room.
在閱覽室里,你們不得大聲喧嘩。
be to do sth., be about to do sth.都表示將要發生的動作。