小明英語(yǔ)課堂 第11課:聚會(huì)

教案：

Our slang for today is all about parties!

我們今天的俚語(yǔ)是關(guān)于聚會(huì)的

So you know what parties are. It is an event with alot of fun, you dance, talk to people.

你知道聚會(huì)是什么，是一個(gè)很有意思的活動(dòng)，可以一起跳舞或者和別人聊天

It can also be the number of people in a group. Ifyou go to a restaurant, and there is just you, and

you say “party of one please”.

它也可以代表一個(gè)團(tuán)體里的人數(shù)。如果你一個(gè)人去飯店，你可以說(shuō)party of one

And the host will take you to a table that has one chair. Or you can say a party of two if thereare two

of you, et cetera.

然后領(lǐng)班會(huì)帶你到一個(gè)桌子和椅子的位置就餐。如果有兩個(gè)人的話你可以說(shuō)party of two，以此類(lèi)推

And there are some slangs that use the word “party”. One is pity party.

有一些俚語(yǔ)里用到了party這個(gè)詞，例如pity party

Pity is when you feel bad for somebody. When you have a pity party, you are feeling sorry foryourself.

Pity是同情的意思。當(dāng)你有一個(gè)pityparty，意思是你很自憐

Usually involves with talking a lot to people about how terrible things are

一般包含大家說(shuō)一些事情有多么糟糕

and someone will tell you “stop throwing yourself a pity party, it’s not that bad. Let’s go outand

get some icecream!”

然后有個(gè)人告訴你不要自憐，事情沒(méi)有那么糟，我們還是去吃點(diǎn)冰淇淋吧

So pity party is when you feel sorry for yourself and you don’t try to make it any better.

Pity party就是形容當(dāng)你為自己感到遺憾并且不嘗試著去改變

Another slang that uses the word “party” is party pooper.

另外一個(gè)有party這個(gè)單詞的俚語(yǔ)是party pooper

You know what poop is, I don’t need to talk about that.

你知道poop是什么吧，我不需要去講關(guān)于這個(gè)的

A party pooper is someone who is basically throwing themselves a pity party a lot.

Party pooper就是一個(gè)人總把自己放在一個(gè)很自憐的心態(tài)上

A party pooper is someone who is stopping everyone else from having fun.

一個(gè)partypooper的人總是讓大家很掃興

You know who I’m talking about. That one friend who says

你知道吧，有些人總會(huì)說(shuō)

“What? You want to go to that park and play basketball? It’s way to far, what if it rains? What if

someone is there already?

什么?你想去那里打球?太遠(yuǎn)了，如果下雨怎么辦?如果已經(jīng)有人了怎么辦?

What if my mom sees us? I’m supposed to be studying. It won’t be any fun.”

如果我媽媽看見(jiàn)我們?cè)趺崔k?我應(yīng)該在學(xué)習(xí)才對(duì)。肯定不會(huì)很有意思的

And someone says “Shut up, Brian, you are such a party pooper.”

這時(shí)候有人會(huì)說(shuō)，布萊恩，閉嘴，你太讓人掃興了

So party pooper is someone who stops everybody else from having fun.

所以partypooper就是一個(gè)令別人掃興的人

Now onto sentence structure. Here’s our example:

現(xiàn)在我們來(lái)看看句型這是我們的例子

“While Brian was at home studying, the rest of us played basketball in the park and got free ice

cream.”

當(dāng)布萊恩在家學(xué)習(xí)的時(shí)候，我們?cè)诠珗@里打籃球并且得到了免費(fèi)的冰淇淋

While A did B, C did D.

當(dāng)A在做B的時(shí)候，C做了D

While my parents were sleeping, my friends and I went outside and looked at the stars.

當(dāng)我父母睡覺(jué)的時(shí)候，我和朋友們出去看星星了

One last example, “While a painting dried, Fred cleaned off his brushes and desk.”

最后一個(gè)例子是當(dāng)一張畫(huà)的顏料在干的時(shí)候，弗萊德清理了筆刷和桌子

Usually you use it to either talk about someone doing a couple of things at once, or twodifferent

people doing different things at the same time.

一般用在一個(gè)人在同時(shí)做兩件事情的時(shí)候，或者兩個(gè)不同的人在同時(shí)做兩件不同的事

So that is our sentence structure, feel free to make your own sentence with it.

這就是我們的句型，來(lái)試試造自己的句子吧

Our etymology for today is “struct”, the Latin root for to build, to build up, to arrange.

我們今天的詞源是struct，在拉丁語(yǔ)里是建造，整理的意思

When I heard “struct”, I immediately though “construction”.

當(dāng)我聽(tīng)到struct，我會(huì)想到construction

Construction means to build something. Or it can mean the thing that you built, or the qualityof that

thing.

Construction的意思是建造，或者指的是所建造的一個(gè)物體

It’s a really useful word. But when you think construction, you think of something being built,

something being arranged.

這是一個(gè)很有用的詞。當(dāng)你想到construction的時(shí)候，你會(huì)想到一個(gè)所建造和整理的物體

But again, remember, you can also talk about the thing that was built afterwards and you cansay

the quality is also the construction of that thing.

不過(guò)construction這個(gè)詞也代表一個(gè)物體的建造質(zhì)量

You can actually end up with a sentence saying

你也可以說(shuō)

“After the construction of the house, we could finally see the quality of the construction ofthat

construction.”

當(dāng)這個(gè)房子的建成了，我們終于可以看到這個(gè)建筑的質(zhì)量

A bit confusing, let’s do an easier word.

聽(tīng)上去很困惑吧，讓我們?cè)囈粋€(gè)簡(jiǎn)單一些的詞

Constructive. “Con” means with, “struct” is build. So you are helping somebody to build

something.

在constructive這個(gè)詞里，con是一起的意思，struct是建造的意思。你在幫助一個(gè)人去建造

If I give constructive advice, I’m not saying “You need to stop doing that. Stop it.”

如果我有一個(gè)建設(shè)性的建議，我不會(huì)說(shuō)你需要去停止做這件事

I would say, “You need to stop doing that, because this, and this is how.”

我會(huì)說(shuō)你需要停止做這件事，因?yàn)槿绱?，并且提供解決方法

I’m helping you make some changes to help build something better. Build better habits, build a

better ethic, anything really.

我在幫助你改變，從而去建設(shè)更好的事物。更好的習(xí)慣，道德，和任何事情

And then on the opposite side you have destructive. Something that breaks down, unbuildsomething.

反義詞是destructive，是毀滅，破壞的意思

You can destroy something by just being mean to it, you can destroy by breaking it, burning it,

knocking it down, killing, you are just unbuilding something.

你可以通過(guò)破壞，燃燒，打翻，殺死的方式去毀滅某物

If you are destructive with it if you destroy it.

如果你對(duì)其是有破壞性的，你會(huì)去摧毀它

Last word I want to show you that uses this root is “industry”

最后一個(gè)例子是industry這個(gè)詞

It has “str” in it. So we can guess that it’s either building a group of things or an arrangementof

things.

它有str，我們可以猜到它是關(guān)于建設(shè)或者整理一些物體

An industry is a group of people or companies that all make the same kind of product.

Industry(行業(yè))是制造同一種產(chǎn)品的一群人或者公司

For example, you have the automobile industry which makes automobiles, or cars.

例如有汽車(chē)制造行業(yè)

And you have the clothing industry, the candy industry, list goes on.

也有紡織行業(yè)，糖果行業(yè)，等等

So remember, “str” or “struct” means to build or to arrange.

所以str或者struct的意思是建設(shè)和整理

I hope you learned something, and if you have any questions about today’s lesson or if youwant to

practice using the sentence,

我希望你學(xué)到了一些知識(shí)，如果你有任何問(wèn)題或者想去練習(xí)句型

follow me on my Weibo, and I would be happy to help and give feedback. See you next time.

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