新概念英语第二册第一课,新概念英语第二册每日一篇:进来还是出去

In or out?
　　进来还是出去?
　　Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and dark. Every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark until someone opened the gate. As the neighbours complained of the noise, my husband spent weeks training him to press his paw on the latch to let himself in. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gate. However, when I was going out shopping last week, I noticed him in the garden near the gate. This time he was barking so that someone would let him out! Since then, he has developed another bad habit. As soon as he opens the gate from the outside, he comes into the garden and waits until the gate shuts. Then he sits and barks until someone lets him out. After this he immediately lets himself in and begins barking again. Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since.
　　参考译文
　　我家的狗雷克斯，过去常坐在大门外面叫。每当它想到花园里来时，便汪汪叫个不停，直到有人把门打开。由于邻居们对狗叫很有意见，所以我丈夫花了几个星期的时间训练它用脚爪按住门闩把自己放进来。雷克斯很快成了开门的专家。然而上星期我正要出去买东西时，发现它正呆在花园里边靠门的地方。这次它叫着让人把它放出去!从那以后，它养成了另外一种坏习惯。它从外面把门一打开，就走进花园，等着门自动关上。这之后他就坐下汪汪叫起来，直到有人来把它放出去。出去之后，它又马上把自己放进来，接着再开始叫。昨天，我丈夫把门卸了下来，雷克斯很生气，此后我们便再也没有见到它。
　　精讲:
　　1、Our dog，Rex, used to sit outside our front gate and bark.
　　我家的狗，雷克斯，过去经常坐在大门外汪汪叫。
　　语言点 used to do表示过去常常做，现在不再做了。
　　例：My cat used to eat fish and now she likes eating cat food.
　　我家的猫以前是吃鱼的，但是现在她改吃猫粮了。
　　2、Every time he wanted to come into the garden he would bark until someone opened the gate.
　　每当它想到花园里来时，便汪汪叫个不停，直到有人把门打开。
　　真题测试 测试语言点：would do + until / till...
　　The crazy fans patiently for two hours, and they would wait till the movie star arrived.
　　(2004年髙考重庆卷，第22题) A. were waiting B. had been waiting C. had waited D. would wait
　　答案：选B
　　分析：根据“they would wait...”可知，他们当时还在等，用过去完成进行时强调“等待” 这一动作从过去开始，一直延续到过去，而且还要延续下去。
　　翻译：疯狂的影迷们已经耐心地等了两个小时了，他们还将等下去，一直等到他们喜爱 的影星出现为止。

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