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新概念英語第三冊(美音版)A spot of bother

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Lesson 58
A spot of bother
一點(diǎn)兒小麻煩

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
聽錄音,然后回答以下問題。
What did the old lady find when she got home?
The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived. Her shopping had tired her and her basket ad grown heavier with every step of the way home. In the life her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest; but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open. She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence, when she remembered that she had gone shopping after the home help had left and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks, She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were open, yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out. Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk. It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced an entry during her absence. Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves, but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her, so she went to fetch the porter from his basement. By this time her legs were beginning to tremble, so she sat down and accepted a cup of very strong tea, while he telephoned the police. Then, her composure regained, she was ready to set off with the porter's assistance to search for nay intruders who might still be lurking in her flat.
They went through the rooms, being careful to touch nothing, as they did not want to hinder the police in their search for fingerprints. The chaos was inconceivable. She had lived in the flat for thirty years and was a veritable magpie at hoarding; and it seemed as though everything she possessed had been tossed out and turned over and over. At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her. Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat. The inspector began to look for fingerprints, while the constable checked that the front door locks had not been forced, thereby proving that the burglars had either used skeleton keys or entered over the balcony. There was no trace of fingerprints, but the inspector found a dirty red bundle that contained jewellery which the old lady said was not hers. So their entry into this flat was apparently not the burglars' first job that day and they must have been disturbed. The inspector then asked the old lady to try to check what was missing by the next day and advised her not to stay alone in the flat for a few nights. The old lady though the was a fussy creature, but since the porter agreed with him, she rang up her daughter and asked for her help in what she described as a little spot of bother.
New words and expressions 生詞和短語
lift
n. 電梯
monstrous
adj. 極大的,可怕的
negligence
n. 粗心大意
lurk
v. 潛藏
hinder
v. 妨礙
fingerprint
n. 指紋
chaos
n. 混亂,無秩序
inconceivable
adj. 不可思議的
veritable
adj. 真正的,地地道道的
magpie
n. 喜歡收藏物品的人
prudent
adj. 謹(jǐn)慎的
composure
n. 鎮(zhèn)靜,沉著
intruder
n. 入侵者(尤指欲行竊者)
toss
v. 扔
discard
v. 丟
discard
v. 丟棄
constable
n. 警察
ransack
v. 洗劫
balcony
n. 陽臺
fussy
adj. 大驚小怪的,小題大作的

老婦人回到了她居住的公寓樓,心里很高興。去商店買東西把她搞得筋疲力盡;在回家的路上,她每走一步,就感到手里的籃子又重了一點(diǎn)。她乘上電梯后,只想著午餐和好好休息一下。但她到自己的樓層走出電梯后,就把這兩件事忘了個(gè)干凈,因?yàn)樗蝗话l(fā)現(xiàn)她家的大門開著。她心想明天上午一定要好好訓(xùn)斥那個(gè)干家務(wù)的幫手,她竟如此疏忽大意。但突然記起來了,幫手是在她出去買東西之前走的,她還記得曾用了兩把鑰匙把大門鎖上了。她慢慢地走進(jìn)前廳,立即發(fā)現(xiàn)所有的房門都敞開著,而她記得在出門買東西前,她按老規(guī)矩是把房門一一鎖上的。她往起居室里看去,寫字臺邊一片狼籍。事情很清楚,在她外出時(shí),竊賊曾闖進(jìn)家門。她第一個(gè)條件反射是各個(gè)房間搜尋一下竊賊,但轉(zhuǎn)念一想,像她這個(gè)年紀(jì),最好找個(gè)人一起去。于是她到地下室去找看門的人。這時(shí)她兩腿累得開始發(fā)抖,于是坐了下來,喝了一杯濃茶。與此同時(shí),看門的人給警察掛了電話。此刻老婦人也鎮(zhèn)定了下來,準(zhǔn)備在看門人的協(xié)助下搜尋可能仍躲藏在她房里的竅賊。 他倆搜遍這每一個(gè)房間,小心翼翼地不接觸任何東西,因?yàn)樗麄兣路恋K警察尋找指紋。房間里的紊亂狀況是無法想像的。老婦人在這套公寓里住了30年,她又是個(gè)名副其實(shí)的收藏家??磥硭拿恳患|西都被翻了出來,并且被里里外外看了遍。這樣一來,她倒是容易將那些幾年前就該扔掉的東西找出來了。過了一會兒,一位巡官帶著一名警察來了。她向他們講述了發(fā)現(xiàn)公寓遭劫的經(jīng)過。巡官開始搜尋指紋,警察經(jīng)檢查發(fā)現(xiàn)大門鎖頭并無撬過的跡象。由此可以證明,竅賊或者是用萬能鑰匙,或者是翻越陽臺進(jìn)來的。巡官沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)指紋,卻發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)裝有珠寶的、骯臟的紅包袱。老婦人說那不是她的。很明顯,闖進(jìn)這套公寓的竊賊那天并不是首次作案,而且他一定受了驚嚇。巡官請老婦人在次日之前設(shè)法查清丟了些什么,并勸她幾夜之內(nèi)不要獨(dú)自一人在公寓過夜。老婦人覺得巡官大驚小怪,但既然看門人也同意他的意見,她只得打電話向女兒求援,說她碰到了一點(diǎn)兒小麻煩。

◆lift n. 電梯
elevator

◆monstrous adj. 極大的,可怕的
monstrous ghost

◆negligence n. 粗心大意
carelessness 比其正式
Eg: We must be careful otherwise we would get into trouble because of negligence.

◆prudent adj. 謹(jǐn)慎的
discreet / careful / cautious

◆composure n. 鎮(zhèn)靜,沉著
calm

◆intruder n. 入侵者(尤指欲行竊者)
intrud
burglar

◆lurk v. 潛藏
lurk in the darkness

◆hinder v. 妨礙
hinder sb. from doing sth. / prevent sb. from doing sth.

◆fingerprint n. 指紋
◆chaos n. 混亂,無秩序
in state of chaos
order / disorder
confusion
conceive

◆inconceivable adj. 不可思議的
conceive
conceivable
conceive of
Eg: I can’t conceive of it.
conceive of sth. as
Eg: I conceive of the life there as beautiful picture.
regard as / describe as / imagine as / refer to ... as / think of ... as
conceivable / inconceivable
◆◆veritable adj. 真正的,地地道道的

◆magpie n. 喜歡收藏物品的人
collector
magpie: a person who likes to collect things as mania or serious hobby.
Eg: Let us toss a coin to decide.

◆toss v. 扔
◆discard v. 丟棄
abandon / desert / forsake
discard: give up as useless
discard useless things
discard sth. for
discard a for b

◆constable n. 警察
◆ransack v. 洗劫
Eg: The robbers ransack the bank.
◆balcony n. 陽臺
◆fussy adj. 大驚小怪的,小題大作的
Eg:You are a fussy person.
Read:本課重點(diǎn)詞
●monstrous adj. 極大的,可怕的
●negligence n. 粗心大意
●prudent adj. 謹(jǐn)慎的
●hinder v. 妨礙
●chaos n. 混亂,無秩序
●inconceivable adj. 不可思議的
●toss v. 扔
●discard v. 丟棄
●ransack v. 洗劫
●fussy adj. 大驚小怪的,小題大作的

A spot of bother: A bit of bother

L58-01 end 9’11”

L58-02 begin 12’29”
背熟:Her shopping had tired her and her basket ad grown heavier with every step of the way Home.
exhausted / tired out / worn out / wear out
Her basket had grown heavier and heavier
Eg: Having a lesson tired me and my school bag had grown heavier with every step of the way Home.

背熟:In the lift her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest
in the lift she thought about her lunch and a good rest.
her thoughts 作主語
thoughts ... on
Eg: I didn’t notice you at that time because my thoughts were on the textbook.
Your thoughts must be on them.

背熟:but when she got out at her own floor, both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open.
in the belief that (L53)
Public officials can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.

for such a monstrous piece of negligence

negligence 不可數(shù)名詞
a piece of negligence

when: at the moment

背熟:following her regular practice she had shut them before going out.

confusion: chaos

背熟:It was as clear as daylight
Eg: He is as stubbom as a mule.
You are as poor as a church mouse.

obviously

背熟:Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves

regain: recover 恢復(fù)

L58-02 end 12’29”

L58-03 begin 11’38”
she was ready to set off to search for any intruders who might still be lurking in her flat with the porter’s assistance.

go through: search

as though : as if

背熟:At least sorting out the things she should have discarded years ago was now being made easier for her.
forced: broken

背熟:there was no trace of sth.
bundle: parcel
a bundle of hay

entry WTO
apparently: obviously
creature: living thing

in her sudden discovery that...
in the belief that
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