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Pat /paet/ 哈尔(男子名, Henry, Harold的呢称)
怕特(女子名, Patricia的呢称)
Noles
1, Russell Baker(1925-): American journalist(新闻记者) and writer.The
text is taken from his autobiography(A #4)Growing Up(1982) which
won him a Pulitzer prize
2. and a prim manner of speaking that was so correct, so gentlemanly, that
he seemed a comic antique: He spoke in a very formal and exact way
Indeed, his style of speaking was so proper and polite that he looked
funny, like something rare from out of the past.
3. I prepared for an unfruitful year with Mr Fleagle and for a long time was
not disappointed. I expected that things wouldn't improve with Mr
Fleagle as our English teacher, and for a long time I was right in my
expectations. (Note the touch of irony here.
4. Vivid memories came flooding back of a night in Belleville when .. for
supper: Vivid memories of a night in Belleville when. for supper came
flooding back. (The long prepositional phrase is placed at the end of the
Itence for the sake of balance.)
5. at the eleventh hour: just before it is too late, at the last moment
6. as it were: so to speak, as one might say可以说;在某种程度上
7. he put the final seal on my happiness: he made my happiness complete
(by adding his praise)
