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!

10. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

好像這一切還不足以使你急得掉淚，你的丈夫接著回來了，事先沒打招呼就帶來3個客人吃飯。

語言點:句子結構分析:as if引導方式狀語從句，請特別注意，這里用were是因為這句話是虛擬語氣。Unexpectedly bringing…dinner是現在分詞短語，作伴隨狀語。

11. Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.

就像許多人最近在悉尼郊區帕拉馬塔發現的那樣，有時亂子會鬧得很大。

語言點1:句子結構分析:as是關系代詞，引導定語從句。

語言點2:on a large scale表示“大規模地”。

12. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.

一天傍晚交通最擁擠時，一輛汽車撞上前面一輛汽車，兩個司機爭吵起來。

語言點1:句子結構分析:during the rush hour one evening充當時間狀語。

語言點2:請特別注意，collide表達的“撞”一般為雙方相互作用，而不是一方靜止另一方撞擊。