課文詳注 Further notes on the text
    1. Were you at the butcher's?剛才您在肉店里嗎?
    at the butcher' s=at the butcher' s shop。在英文中，表示店鋪、住宅、公共機構(gòu)、公共建筑物以及教堂的名字或某人家時，名詞所有格后常不出現(xiàn)它所修飾的名詞:
    the greengrocer' s ( shop)蔬菜水果店
    the hairdresser' s ( shop)理發(fā)店
    the stationer' s ( shop)文具店
    the doctor' s ( office)診所
    my mother ' s ( house)我媽媽家里
    St . Paul ' s ( Church)圣保羅教堂
    2. be absent from 不在，缺席。
    3. the country=the countryside 鄉(xiāng)下。
    country表示“農(nóng)村”時，前面一定要加定冠詞the。
    語法Grammar in use
    一般過去時(1)
    be( am/is/are)的過去式是was/were:
    I /he/she/it was/wasn’t
    we/you/they were/weren’t
    在英文中，過去發(fā)生的而現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)結(jié)束的動作要用一般過去時來表示。be動詞的過去式不規(guī)則，第1人稱與第3人稱單數(shù)用was，其他情況用were。
    用be動詞的一般現(xiàn)在時形式的一般疑問句及特殊疑問句迄今已介紹過，其過去時形式也一樣，只是動詞be在形式上變?yōu)閣as或were。請看以下例句:
    Was Mrs.Johnson at the butcher’s?
    約翰遜夫人在肉店嗎?
    No,sha wasn’t.
    她不在。
    Were you at school or at church ou January 1st ?
    1月1號你在學(xué)校還是上教堂了?
    I wasn't at school on January 1 st .I was at church.
    我1月1號沒上學(xué)。我上教堂做禮拜了。
    When was he absent from school ?
    他何時缺課了?
    He was absent on Monday，Tuesday，Wednesday and Thursday .
    他周一、周二、周三和周四缺課了。
    Where were you on Sunday ?
    周日你在哪兒?
    I was at church on Sunday.
    我周日在教堂做禮拜。
    詞匯學(xué)習(xí)Word study
    1. spend v.
    (1)花(時間等);度過:
    Where are the Johnsons going to spend the weekend ?
    約翰遜一家準備到哪兒去度這個周末?
    I hope that you wouldn’t spend so much time watching television.
    我希望你不要花這么多的時間看電視。
    (2)用(錢)，花費:
     I’m going to spend all my money this weekend !
    這個周末我要把我所有的錢都花掉!
    At present,more and more people have come to realize that more money should he spent on health and education.
    目前，越來越多的人已開始認識到:應(yīng)該在健康和教育方面多花些錢。
    2 .country
    (1) n.國家;國土;故鄉(xiāng):
    China is a country with a large population.
    中國是一個人口眾多的國家。
    India,a former British colony,is now a fully independent country.
     曾一度為英國殖民地的印度如今已是一個完全獨立的國家。
    (2) n .〔the一J鄉(xiāng)下，鄉(xiāng)村:
     His mother has always wanted to live in the country.
     他的母親一直以來都想居住在鄉(xiāng)間。
     How many days are they going to spend in the country ?
     他們準備在鄉(xiāng)下過幾天?
    (3) adj. 鄉(xiāng)下的;鄉(xiāng)村風(fēng)味的:
     I prefer country life to life in the city.
     鄉(xiāng)村生活與城市生活相比，我更喜歡鄉(xiāng)村生活。
     after nearly thirty years in the city，he’s still country。
     他在城里住了將近三十年，可還是土氣十足。