賴世雄英語書信通Unit 61：感謝師恩函

June 10, 2005

Dear Mrs. Nelson,

My name is Rick Schultz. I don’t know if you remember me, but I was in your English class at Westview High School in 2000. I used to argue with you about the merits of science fiction as a form of literature. Recently I met several other former students of yours, Gerald Bryant, Ron Brown, Dawn Smith, and Dave Lee. Naturally we spent much of the time we were together talking about your class and how much we enjoyed it. So I decided to write you and find out how you are doing.

As I said, we all remember your class with great fondness. If you are still teaching, I hope your current students appreciate how fortunate they are.

Sincerely yours,

Rick Schultz

親愛的尼爾森太太：

我是瑞克?史特滋。我不知道您是否還記得我，二○○○年時，我在西景高中上過您的英文課。我以前常常和您爭論科幻小說作為一種文學(xué)的優(yōu)點(diǎn)。最近，我遇到了幾個您以前教過的其它學(xué)生：杰羅德?布萊恩、朗恩?布朗、唐恩?史密斯和戴夫?李等人。自然地，我們在一起的時間都在談?wù)撃恼n，也談到我們好喜歡上您的課。所以，我決定寫封信給您并想知道您是否安好。

我曾說，我們都記得您的課，各個滿懷欣喜。如果您還在教書，希望現(xiàn)在的學(xué)生都能知道他們是多么的幸運(yùn)啊!

學(xué)生

瑞克?史特滋　敬上

2005年6月10日

字詞解說：

1.used to v 以前曾經(jīng)/常常

例：michael used to work for that company.

2.argue 爭論

argue with sb adout/over...和某人爭論..

例：Dan argued with his wife over what kind of furniture to buy.

3. merit 優(yōu)點(diǎn)，長處

4.science fiction 科學(xué)幻小說

5.form 方式，形式

6.literature 文學(xué)

7.former 以前的

8.find out.. 發(fā)現(xiàn)/知道...

例：The police still haven't found out what happened to the stolen painting.

9.current 現(xiàn)在的，目前的

例：Joyce like her current job much better than her previous one.

10.appreciate 察知，知道

例：He is too young to really appreciate how lucky he is .

11.fortunate 幸運(yùn)的