067. Once you...
一旦你……
[句型解析]
“once”有“一次”的意思,但它還有“一旦”之意。“once you know the second meaning of 'once', I bet you will never forget it.” (一旦你知道了“once”的第二個意思,我敢打賭你再也忘不了它了。)
[實例]
1. Once you decide, you can't change your mind.
一旦你決定了,就不能改變想法了。
2. Once you have a stomachache, take the medicine twice a day.
一旦胃痛,你就吃這些藥,每天兩次。
3. Once he finds out what you've done, he'll get mad.
一旦他知道你的所作所為,他會氣瘋的。
[實戰(zhàn)練習]
A: My friends have been asking me to smoke cigarettes with them.
我的朋友們一直要我學他們吸煙。
B: Be careful! You don't give in to peer pressure.
小心別屈服于同齡人的壓力。
A: Why?
為什么?
B: First of all, smoking is bad for your health and second, once you start smoking it will be hard to stop.
首先吸煙有害健康,其次一旦你開始了就很難停下來。
A: Yeah, you're right. I know a lot of people who are addicted to smoking.
你是對的。我知道很多人吸煙上了癮。
B: I bet most of them started because their friends also smoked.
我相信他們很多人抽煙是因為他們的朋友抽煙。
A: You're right. I won't do it. I won't smoke with my friends.
是啊,我不會了,我不會跟朋友一起抽煙了。