We should also say, Peter, that many Chinese students will say \No, the verb is \ Edison perfected the light bulb. but as an adjective, you must say \'perfect \

per'fect light bulb = make light bulb 'perfect 读音不同

to perfect means to make very very good or good enough to use. 使......更完美 perfect the lightbulb = make the lightbulb perfect 读音不同 help sb. to do sth. to可省略

I help dad (to) repair/fix the car. It is beyond repair. repair vt. n.

At least that was second hand. --It is already beyond repair, but stingy Bruce will never give it up.

Hey, Peter, This chair you are sitting on is beyond repair. (不能修理，repair n.) -- Peter is very very heavy or rather fat.

go (for) one block, go along. go vi. block 街区 He is a young repairman.

take a left = make a left turn = turn left

Well, you can say either \

Excuse me, please tell me where the station is? the station? well, you go down this street, two blocks, and then make a right.

Excuse me, sir, I’m new here, I think I’m lost, and I have to go to ...Grant hotel, but I don't know where it is. so, please, show me the way, please.

Oh, I thought you were serious when you called me \we can easily tell that the computer is not in a good mood.好心情 On rainy days, I am often in a bad mood.

I am in the mood for dancing, let's go to a Disco. 想要，有心情要做..+名词动名词 be in the mood for sth.

We also have another word that's, look about the same in appearance, and that's disk. I’m sure this word \

--Sure, A disk also you can spell it disc. sometimes you will see \\it means something round. in the old days, when Peter was a boy, there were records, and records are round. so, a \they played records. so, people could dance. so, \to records and to dance.

--There was no live band there. even today, in some discos, as far as I know, there are some live bands.-- Yes, but when they take a break, then they play tapes or CDs now. live band It is a live show. 现场的adj. adv.

The whole program will be broadcasted live. it is a live show. be angry with sb. be mad at sb

My teacher is angry with/mad at me, because I flunked the test.

It is not my day today. 今天真倒霉 I'm just having a bad day today. I failed the test and now I caught a cold. Today is not my day.

You are just a machine, you cannot think, you should not have any emotion, how can you have a bad day?

let out one's emotion-- well, students are often studying very hard, students have a lot of pressure. So, it is important for businessman or students to let out their emotion some time. we

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really mean to let out their bad feelings or their pressure maybe by exercising or singing or some other good way. It's important to let out our emotion. Singing is a good way to let out one's emotion. 发泄情绪 I do not function/ am not functioning properly today.

A virus is a very small piece of life. very small, the smallest, we know, which can enter into a cell in our body and make a lot of trouble in our health. Viruses can attack people, animals or plants. Viruses can attack each other, too.

You can't go wrong studying English with Bruce. 出错

Something is wrong. Something is the matter with Peter. adj. wrong somebody--that means to treat someone unfairly. vt. She wronged him by ignoring him. vt.伤害 retell the story

Well, we are talking about a guy named Dan today. He has a car like most of us. But his car is special. It has a talking computer in it. this computer can tell you directions. Dan doesn't know how to go to his hotel, and asks his computer \our hotel? \computer tells him to go along the street for one block and then make a left turn. that sounds easy to Dan, but Dan turns right, he makes a mistake. the computer is angry, \turn left, you idiot. \\\Dan, and then he realizes that the computer is angry but shouldn’t be, the computer apologizes and explains that he is not feeling well today. and Dan wonders how a computer can not feel well. Computers are not supposed to have emotion. The computer tell him that he caught some kind of virus. and now Dan understands and realizes that nothing, even computers are perfect. You should apologize to him for a mistake.

19. Blame it on Men p114

What's the real reason (省why) women get fat? It's not chocolate or ice cream. According to a recent report, which(/that) was(which was可被改写掉) published in London, it's men! A magazine suggested men (省should) have a special warning written on their foreheads:\make you fat!\

The report claims that when women fall in love, they tend to eat more. When they get married, they cook more. And when they get pregnant, of course, they gain weight. They blame it on men. So, girls, if you want to lose weight, you don't have to go on a diet: just dump your boyfriends!

That's a very interesting lesson, but I really doubt if you know what he says in this lesson is true or not. Because in fact, in my case, my wife still remains very thin, whereas I’m getting fatter and fatter. --so we can blame it on women. --Definitely. That means you are still in love with your wife.

thin 更苗条 and another word we can use here, is slender 苗条 blame sb. for sth. 因某事责怪某人

Eg：Mother blamed me for the broken window, but my kid brother did it.

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blame sth. on sb. 责怪，归咎于

The farmers blamed their poor crops on the weather. 怪罪 I blamed the mistake on Bruce. I know the reason why(通常省why, the reason也可省) he’s crying.-- You didn't pay me yet this month. chocolate和ice cream 均为不可数 two chocolates和 two ice creams指种类 two scoops of ice cream a chocolate bar two chocolate bars How many scoops would you like?

According to the weather report, It will rain tonight. According to the professor, chemistry is an easy subject. According to him, it's going to rain today. according to me 错 应为 I think

have sth. done 把 Eg：I'll have the work done by five. I'll have my hair cut/done this weekend. I suggested that you be quiet.(省should)

你认为…怎么样，三个表达：What do you think of this song?

How do you feel about this song? How do you like this song?

fall in love with --of course, I know that song. --how do you feel about that song? I fell in love with my wife 25 years ago. --that's all you've been married? He is in love with Mary. be in love with在恋爱中 tend to 易于…；往往；有…的倾向

Eg: He tends to get angry easily.他很动不动就生气． He tends to lie.=He is apt to lie.他爱说慌。

But here this sentence: ‘they tend to eat more’ reminds me of one situation, in which people, you know, keep eating things, they can not help it. Then in this case, we say that they get some sort of disease, and that is bulimia, I’d better spell that, that's for the doctor calls it \and we should also talk about the other way, when people eat too little, because they want to look thin, we talk about \thin, and people can die from not eating enough. we say they have \These two words are usually used by doctors.

bulimia-- which is something that I’m suffering from.--not yet.

bulimia [bju?l?mi?, -?limi?, bu-] 贪食症 anorexia 厌食症 [??n??r?ksi?] She is expecting. --Which is really short for \She is expecting for 6 months.她怀孕了 When are you due?

pregnant expecting 怀孕 When is your baby due? 什么时候生下来？ Gain/put on weight lose weight

For some sports, boys have to put on weight.

IF you want to have a girlfriend, Sam, you’d better lose some weight. IF you want to improve you health, you should go on a diet. dump 文中意为get rid of 甩掉 Don't dump garbage here. part four. Substitution

This is the place they first met.

Midnight is the time (/when/at which) everyone wishes each other \I wish you happy landings.复数 Wish+人+名词祝福语（双宾语）

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--Well, when you leave, you still have to land at your destination. and then when you come back, we also want you have a safe landing. The doctor advised that I go on a diet.

Winnie proposed that we all pay her a visit this weekend.

20 A Weighty Problem p 123

Eve and Adam are talking.

E: Do you know (that通常省) I've put on(/ gain) 5 kilos since(since这里prep.) going out with you?( / since I went out with you? (conj.)) A: Why's that?

E: You're always taking me to fancy restaurants.

A: Well, you don't have to eat so much when we eat out, you know. E: But I can't resist all the delicious food. A: Besides, it's not cheap.

E: I guess you're right. Maybe I should start cooking again. (Adam turns pale.)

A: Uh… Let's just forget about your weight problem, OK? I don't care how fat you are. E: really? (She is happy to hear that, and said:)

What’s the point that this dialog wants to tell us?—It wants to tell us that Eve is a very bad cook.--I think we already introduced this word to our listeners, just yesterday we talked about this word ‘imply’, so we can say this dialog implies that Eve is a very bad cook. Now, tell us the difference between cook and cooker.--Good point, many of my students say, for example……

Your father uses a cooker to cook rice. a rice cooker

A rice cooker can be used to prepare rice or many other dishes which may be delicious, if I don’t cook them.

She is a wonderful cook.

a bad cook 厨师 cooker烹饪器 饭店厨师应为 chef

a weighty problem—A problem that has to do that with your weight. pun n.vi.vt.双关语—The word ‘weighty’ is a pun, because it means both serious and heavy. weighty本意同serious这里另有heavy之意 carry a lot of weight with sb.对某人颇具影响力。 His words carry a lot of weight with his boss.

Eve and Adam—Usually we say Adam and Eve, but we changed here, because we didn’t want you to think right the way who they are, usually we say Adam and Eve in the Christian religion, and also the Jewish religion, were the first two people in the world, Adam was supposed to be the first man, and Eve was supposed to be the first woman.

Adam’s apple 喉结 apostrophe [??pɑ?str?fi]撇号;省略号；所有格符号; 复数符号--Well, I wish I could show you, I can’t, because we are on the radio, but if you watch a man talking you can notice his throat, there is something like a bone moving when he talks, we call that Adam’s apple.

put on/gained 5 kilos

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If you drink too much beer, you'll put on a lot of weight.—Bruce is crazy about beer. The word \short for the kilogram. …的缩写 date(vt.) = go on a date(n.) = go out with 约会

Alice and Sam have been going out with each other for two years. They have been dating (each other) for two years.

I’m going out with/dating Mary tonight.今晚我要与玛丽约会． I’ll be (going) on a date with Mary tonight.

--Unfortunately, Bruce doesn’t know how to use this expression, in his dictionary there is no such word as date, I feel sorry. –date? what is this word?

fancy restaurants—Here, fancy means high class and expensive.

fancy restaurant 豪华饭馆 fancy dress 名贵的服装 fancy car 豪华车 Judy wore a fancy dress to the party.

Bruce, whose fancy car is that over there?--Don’t you recognize your own car? Tonight I don’t want to stay home for dinner, let ’s eat out. 下馆子

Betty can't resist my charms.–Wow, Bruce, shame on you.—You tent to think that you are handsome, you are the most handsome boy in the world.—Unfortunately, this is not the case. I don't understand it, my dog won't eat my delicious cooking. =tasty =inviting Anything mom makes/cooks is delicious/ tasty.妈妈做的任何东西都好吃． The food is inviting. an inviting dessert. 诱人的甜食 Bruce is cheap.—That is not the sentence I was thinking of.

inexpensive物美价廉 cheap便宜货,修饰人时=小气鬼=stingy adj. miser n.

If a person is stingy or cheap, sometimes we call them a miser.—I can spell that word so easily.—Because you yourself are a miser, that is why you are so familiar with this word, But anyhow there is nothing bad about being a miser. In fact, because in this way, you can save a lot of money, and of course if you want to treat your friends to dinner, try to be a little bit generous, otherwise, you’ll be isolated.—I’m saying something on purpose.—Oh, I get it, you want to take me to a fancy restaurant. fat chance 门都没有 = no way

Can I use your car?—Fat chance.—How stingy we can easily tell.. how stingy Bruce is in that case.

Before Cynthia fainted, she turned pale. turn pale 脸色变苍白

gray(美) grey(英) 头发白了 His hair turn gray with passing of time. Bruce’s hair turned gray/white working with Peter.

He is afraid that he would have to eat the food cooked by Eve again, and of course, anything that is cooked by Eve. in this case, this is very very bad. I couldn't care less. 不在乎 I don't care at all.

Hey, your girlfriend is marrying someone else. -- I couldn't care less./I don't care at all. Bruce retell this story:

Well, Adam and Eve or Eve and Adam are a husband and wife, they live together, but they usually eat out in high class restaurants, that why Eve has been putting on weight recently, she is gained about 5 kilos, he doesn’t care, but he points out that if she is worried about how heavy she is, then she should eat less because the food is expensive in the fancy restaurant. she agrees, and she tells him that she’ll start cooking again which is something Adam is afraid of, because Eve can’t cook at all, so he tells her: Oh, that is ok, honey, eat as much as you like. and

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