新概念英語第三冊逐句精講語言點 第24課 櫥柜里的骷髏 (7)

　　This was worse than‘a terrible secret; this was a real skeleton! But George was unsympathetic. ‘Oh, that,'he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend. ‘That's Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.'

　　19. This was worse than a terrible secret; this was a real skeleton!

　　這是比 “駭人聽聞的秘密 ”更加驚人的東西，這是一具真正的骷髏啊!

　　語言點:句子結構分析:分號之后的內容為補充說明，解釋“為什么駭人聽聞”。

　　20. But George was unsympathetic.

　　但喬治卻無動于衷。

　　語言點:句子結構分析:but引導的句子與上文的說法形成轉折，引出下文George對這件事情的不同看法。

　　21. ‘Oh, that,’he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend.

　　“噢，是它呀!他笑著說道，儼然在談論一位老朋友。

　　語言點1:句子結構分析:that指代上文中提到的skeleton。as if引導虛擬語氣—“好像在談論一位老朋友”。

　　語言點2:said with a smile的意思是“笑著說”，with a smile作方式狀語，指的是“以笑的方式說”。

　　22. ‘That’s Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.’

　　“那是塞巴斯蒂安。你忘了我以前是學醫(yī)的了。”

　　語言點1:句子結構分析:that引導賓語從句，說明forget的內容是什么。

　　語言點2:once upon a time指的是“過去，曾經”，即以前的事情。