1 語意表述:某人去某地做某事
套用句型:Sb goes to somewhere for something.
句型操練:I will go to American for a ballet competition.
我要到美國參加芭蕾舞比賽。
2 語意表述:某人能夠做某事,可以做成功
套用句型:Sb manages something.
句型操練:The little girl manages the heavy stone.
這個小女孩能夠舉起這個很重的石頭。
指點迷津:表達這個語意主要是運用到“manage”這個動詞,它的意思“對付,處理”。
3 語意表達:伺候著主人或客人用餐,例如:在吃飯中更換碗碟等。
套用句型:Sb is waiting at table.
句型操練:I would like to book a room in your restaurant where there are waiters wait at table.
我想在貴店預定一個有服務生伺候用餐的包廂。
4 語意表達:某人還沒有資格談論某事,談論這件事情還輪不到他來指指點點的。
套用句型:It is not for me to say.
句型操練:——How do you think of my new manager’s secretary?——Sorry!It is not for me to say. I have just been here for three days.
——你覺得我們經理的新秘書工作如何?——對不起,還輪不到我說話,我才來這里工作三天。
5 語意表述:服務或者工作質量等等水準降低。
套用句型:Something fall below the way things ought to be.
句型操練:The three-star hotel has been falling below the way things ought to be.
這家三星級酒店服務質量一直在下降。
6 語意表述:某人做某事是不公平的,不合理的。
套用句型:It is unfair on sb to do something.
句型操練:It is unfair on me to ask me to clean up the entire house myself.
要求我一人打掃整個房子是不公平的。
指點迷津:這個意思的表達主要用到關于unfair的短語搭配——be unfair on somebody。
7 語意表述:某人的現狀沒有旁人認為它理應處于的那個程度。
套用句型:Sb is not as+adj.+as+he should be.
句型操練:—— You must work very hard, I think. ——Not really. I am not as hard as I should be.
——我想你學習一定非常用功。——才沒有了,我沒有你想的那么用功。