February 8, 2005
Dear Joyce,
Here I am in Asia! I’m still in Thailand now; I’ve been here for two weeks already. I went to an island in the south called Phuket for a little over a week. It has really great beaches. I spent my days lying on the beach and my nights drinking beer and watching videos in the bars. After that I came back here to Bangkok. It’s crowded and polluted, but there are some really interesting temples and palaces. I’ve never seen anything like them. One has a two-ton Buddha made of solid gold!
Yesterday I took a day trip to Ayuthaya, the former capital. It has some incredible ruined temples. I’m getting ready to fly to Nepal next week; my next letter will probably be from there. If you write to me, send your letters to me poste restante at the Bangkok General Post Office. I’ll pick them up when I get back to Thailand at the end of next month.
Sincerely,
Vincent Smith
親愛的喬依絲:
我到亞洲了!現(xiàn)在我還待在泰國;我已經(jīng)到這里兩個星期了。我去了南部一個叫普吉的小島一個多星期。那里有很棒的海灘。我白天躺在海灘上,晚上到酒吧里喝啤酒、看錄像帶。之后我便回到曼谷。這里很擁擠而且污染嚴重,不過有一些挺有趣的廟宇和宮殿。我從未看過任何類似的建筑物。其中有一間廟有一座由兩噸純金打造成的佛陀。
昨天我到故都阿猶他亞玩了一天。那里有一些令人難以置信的荒廢廟宇。我下星期準備飛到尼泊爾;下次給你的信可能就會從那里寄出。你如果要寫信給我,把信寄到曼谷郵政總局郵件留局待領處,等我下個月底回到泰國時會去領。
文森?史密斯 敬上
2005年5月8日
字詞解說:
1) lay另可作原形及物動詞,表“放置”、“生(蛋)”。
三態(tài)為lay, laid, laid;現(xiàn)在分詞或動名詞為laying 。
2) lie另可作原形不及物動詞,表“說謊”。
三態(tài)為lie, lied, lied;現(xiàn)在分詞或動名詞則為lying 。
例:The sick woman竺in bed all day.
(那個生病的女人整天躺在床上。)
He laid the book there.
(他把書放在那里。)
He lied to me, which made me angry.
(他對我撒謊,那令我生氣。)
6. video 電視錄像帶節(jié)目
=video tape
7. bar 酒吧
8. Bangkok 曼谷(泰國首都)
9. crowded .擁擠的
crowded with. . .擠滿了……
例:The department store was crowded with shoppers.
(百貨公司里擠滿了采購的人群。)
10. pollute .污染
pollution 污染
air pollution空氣污染
water pollution水污染
noise pollution噪音污染
environmental pollution環(huán)境污染
例:Those factories have polluted the river.
(那些工廠已污染了該條河流。)
11. temple 寺廟
12. palace 宮殿
13. Buddha 佛陀
14.…a two-ton Buddha made of solid gold !
=…a two-ton Buddha which was made of solid gold!
15. solid 固體的,堅硬的
16. gold 黃金
solid gold純金
17. take a trip to+地方名詞到某地旅行
例:I would like to take a trip to Mongolia someday.
(我想有一天能到蒙古去旅行。)
18. Ayuthaya 大城
19. former 從/以前的,前者的
the former. .。the latter…前者……后者……
例:`Sarah is Paul,s sister and Mike is his brother. The former is a lawyer and the latter is a chef.
(莎拉是保羅的妹妹,而麥克是他的哥哥。前者是個律師,后者是個主廚。)
20.capital 首都
21.incredible 非常的,難以相信的