PROGRAMME 33

第一部分對話：在旅行社

Norm和Doris來到一家旅行社。他們看了一份到中國去旅行的路線簡介，接著就和旅行社的工作人員(travel agent)談了起來。

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英語情景對話1

NORM: This one looks good.
TRAVEL AGENT: Yes. If you fly to Hong Kong between June and August, you get a 20% discount.
DORIS: 20%. Mm.That's not bad.
NORM: Right. It's worth considering.
TRAVEL AGENT: This one gives you a lot of time for sightseeing.
NORM:（提到另外一條旅行路線）What about this one? You go to more places...
Guangzhou... Beijing... Xi'an... Shanghai... Guilin.
TRAVEL AGENT: Yes, but you spend more time travelling... about 50% of your time on the go．
DORIS: It might be too tiring for us.
TRAVEL AGENT: I think it might（笑）Of course, you can always do a bicycle tour of China!
DORIS:（笑）Oh,I don't think we're fit enough for that!

第二部分：英語詞匯表達

fit 健康
tiring 使人感到疲勞
Hong Kong 香港
Kowloon 九龍
sightseeing 游覽，觀光
pay 付款(過去式和過去分詞：paid)
spend 花費（錢、時間）（過去式和過去分詞：spent）
by the end of the month 到月底
How long does it take from Hong Kong to Guangzhou? 從香港到廣州需要多少時間？
It takes…hours 需要……個小時
I'm not 100 per cent sure 我不是百分之百她有把握
It's worth considering 值得考慮，可以考慮
60 percent of his time's spent sleeping 他把百分之六十的時間花在睡覺上了
This one looks good 這一個看來不錯
You can always do a bicycle tour of China 你總是可以騎自行車在中國旅行的
You get a 20 percent discount 可以給你打八折
You spend about 50 per cent of your time on the go 大約百分之五十的時間花在路上

第三部分：課程

1．PERCENTAGES百分數

談到百分數，英語說：percent主要用于以下兩種結構：
a)x per cent of (something).
Eighty per cent of Australia's population lives on the coast.
(誠比較：Four-fifths of Australia's population lives on the coast.)
Twenty per cent of my time is spent travelling.
b)A x%discount/profit/loss
You can get n 20% discount on this air fare.
（這批貨物／這張機票可以給你打八折。）
The company made a lot 10% profit/loss last year.
（這家公司去年有百分之十的利潤／虧損。）
有些習語里也用百分數。例如：
I don't feel l00%.
I'm not l00% sure.
在廣播里，你可以聽到另外一些日常會話里使用百分數的例子，并且練習拿分數與百分數進行換算。例如：
Three quarters is 75% (seventy-five percent).
A third is 33 1/3%(thirty-three and a third percent).
2．OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY其他表示數量的詞語
There'sa lot oftime for sight-seeing.
There'slots oftime for sight-seeing.
There'splenty oftime for sight-seeing.
I ate too much chicken．
You ate too many peanuts.
以上斜體字都是常用的數量詞語，按所表示的數量多少依次排列。
注意：
Too much后面跟不可數名詞。例如：
There's TOO MUCH sugar in the milk.
Too many后面跟可數名詞。例如：
There were TOO MANY people at the party.
有一個諺語是這樣說的：
Too many cooks spod the broth.
字面上的意思是：廚師太多，好湯也要做壞。
實際上的意思是：人多手雜，反而壞事。
Enough若與名詞連用，放在名詞前面；著與形容詞或副詞連用，則放在后面。例如：
They've got ENOUGH money to buy a car.
She's old ENOUGH to go to school.
If we walk quickly ENOUGH we can catch the bus.
在廣播里還有下面兩個例子：
I don't think we're fit enough to do a bicycle tour.
Is he clever enough to pass his exams?
3. SOME USES OF THE-ING FORM OF THE VERB動詞- ING形式的某些用法
a)許多動詞如果后面還接動詞，后面這個動詞就要用-ING形式。我們已經碰到過一些例子。如：
Would you mind tumING the music down?
左這一講里，你還會聽到在spend time后面用動詞的．ing形式：
On this tour you spend more time travetIING than on most tours.
Twenty per cent of my time is spent traveIIING.
b)介詞后面的動詞要用-ING形式。我們已經碰到的例子有：
How about comING to dinner?
I was thinking of havING an outside reception．
Thanks for inoitING us．
你在廣播里還可以聽到：
This tour gives you a lot of time for sightseeING.
c)請注意這個新的用法：
WORTH+ VERB+-ING．等等
廣播里有這樣一個例子：
This tour has a 20% discount. It's worth considerING.