A Day to Remember 難忘的一天

We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!

1.We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.

我們大家都有過(guò)事事不順心的日子。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn):句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:when引導(dǎo)的是定語(yǔ)從句，請(qǐng)?zhí)貏e注意不是時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句，被修飾的先行詞是days。All的作用是突出強(qiáng)調(diào)we。

2.A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.

一天開(kāi)始時(shí)，可能還不錯(cuò)，但突然間似乎一切都失去了控制。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:but并列連接兩個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系的句子。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)2:well enough的意思是“足夠好”，注意不可說(shuō)enough well!

3.What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.

情況經(jīng)常是這樣的，許許多多的事情都偏偏趕在同一時(shí)刻出問(wèn)題。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)1:句子結(jié)構(gòu)分析:what invariably happens是主語(yǔ)從句。

語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)2:choose to do sth.的意思是“碰巧做某事”，相當(dāng)于coincide/conspire to do sth。choose to go wrong在此是擬人修辭格。