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Lesson 28 Five pounds too dear 五镑太贵

Small boats loaded with wares sped to the great liner as she was entering the harbour. Before she had anchored, the men from the boats had climbed on board and the decks were soon covered with colourful rugs from Persia, silks from India, copper coffee pots, and beautiful handmade silverware. It was difficult not to be tempted. Many of the tourists on board had begun bargaining with the tradesmen, but I decided not to buy anything until I had disembarked.

I had no sooner got off the ship than I was assailed by a man who wanted to sell me a diamond ring. I had no intention of buying one, but I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size of the diamonds. Some of them were as big as marbles. The man went to great lengths to prove that the diamonds were real. As we were walking past a shop, he held a diamond firmly against the window and made a deep impression in the glass. It took me over half an hour to get rid of him.

The next man to approach me was selling expensive pens and watches. I examined one of the pens closely. It certainly looked genuine. At the base of the gold cap, the words 'made in the U.S.A.' had been neatly inscribed. The man said that the pen was worth ￡50, but as a special favour, he would let me have it for ￡30. I shook my head and held up five fingers indicating that I was willing to pay ￡5. Gesticulating wildly, the man acted as if he found my offer outrageous, but he eventually reduced the price to ￡10. Shrugging my shoulders, I began to walk away when, a moment later, he ran after me and thrust the pen into my hands. Though he kept throwing up his arms in despair, he readily accepted the ￡5 I gave him. I felt especially pleased with my wonderful bargain----until I got back to the ship. No matter how hard I tried, it was impossible to fill this beautiful pen with ink and to this day it has never written a single word!

Language points
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1, Small boats loaded with wares sped to the great liner as she was entering the harbour.

speed :迅速驶向新概念英语第二册1

speed down hill 向山下疾驶

speed up 向山上疾驶

speed by 迅速驶过

Our holiday speed by.

2, I had no intention of buying one, but I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size of the diamonds.

impress: 给......极深的印象

be most impressed by 某人被留下了极深的印象

What impressed me most was 给我印象最深的是

Eg.: What impressed me most was beauty here.

create / give a bad impression on sb. 给......以不良印象

Eg.:If the shop is untidy, it creates a bad impression on potential of customers.

If you don’t work hard, it will create a bad impression on your boss

make a quite impression on sb. 给某人留下极深的印象

Eg.: Your speech made a quite impression on me.

impression n. 印痕

Eg.: He made a deep impression in glass.

3，The man went to great lengths to prove that the diamonds were real.

real: 真的，不是捏造出来的，非人工制造的（= genuine）

true: 与事实或现实符合 ( ≠false )

genuine: 不是伪造的，非人工制造的（常用来修饰金银、字画、古董 ≠fake）

real reason, real fears, real / genuine money, real / genuine diamond

4, It took me over half an hour to get rid of him.

It take sb. sometime to do sth. 花费某人时间做某事

get rid of 摆脱，除去；治好=cure

He can never get rid of his debts. （~ debt ==pay off:还清）

5, The next man to approach me was selling expensive pens and watches.

The next man to approach me:第二个向我兜售的人，靠近我的人

6, I shook my head and held up five fingers indicating that I was willing to pay ￡5.

hold up five fingers indicating that...

indicating:分词作状语，“意思是说......”

Eg.: I held up ten fingers indicating that I was willing to pay $10.

7, Gesticulating wildly, the man acted as if he found my offer outrageous, but he eventually reduced the price to ￡10.

act as if (行为、举止)好像

as if ==as though

8, the man acted as if he found my offer outrageous,

outrageous: 感到出乎意料的，令人不能容忍的

eventually ==at last

9, Shrugging my shoulders, I began to walk away when, a moment later, he ran after me and thrust the pen into my hands.

shrugging----现在分词作伴随状况状语

readily ==willingly 心甘情愿地

be pleased with= be satisfied with 对……感到满意

Key structures

定语从句（七）

3．whose 和of which 指代人或事物，作定语。of which 可用whose 代替；

如：The car whose lights (of which the lights/the lights of which) were all broken was my father’s.

那辆所有的灯都破了的汽车是我父亲的。

4．关系代词的格应与它在从句中充当的成分一致。特别要注意插入语，

如：Peter is the one who everybody believes will fail to bring off the contract. Peter 是那个人人都认为不能完成合同的人。（everybody believes 是插入语）

5．关系代词作从句的主语时，从句的动词必须和先行词的人称和数一致：

例：These are the operating instructions that/which are written in English 。

这就是用英文写成的使用说明。

Exercises

Multiple choices

1 At what point did the tradensmen start trying to sell their merchandise?

a. Once it had ben brought to them by the small boats.

b. While they were laying it out on the decks.

c. As soon as theliner had anchored in the harbour.

d. Once the tourists had arrived on board.

2 What happened once the writer got on shore?

a. A man who had followed him off the ship tried to sell him a diamond.

b. He was made to look at some diamonds against his will.

c. A man started pestering him to buy a diamond.

d. On his way to a shop, he met a man who was selling diamonds.

Translation

3，His house of which the windows (the windows of which /whose windows) were all broken was a depressing sight.

4，在选举的时候我投了我认为最合适的那个人的票。

5，你是住在那幢刚刚竣工、有15个卧室、3个病房和4个卫生间的白色房子里吗？

6，That is the book whose cover (of which the cover/the cover of which ) was broken.

7，银器 软件 硬件

8，他毫不迟疑的就答应帮忙。