- Pronunciation

• secretary /ˈsekrətəri/ secret /ˈsiːkrət, ˈsiːkrɪt/

- Words & Phases

• news：[U]

  • a piece of ~；news agency：报社；newspaper

  • that’s news to me! [spoken] 我完全不知道

    ‘The meeting’s been cancelled.’ ‘That’s news to me!’

• secretary

  • Secretary of State (美国)国务卿。美国的各部部长叫做 Secretary，the Secretary of Defense；Secretary of State 在英国指各部的大臣。the Foreign Secretary

  • Secretary - General (大型国际组织、政治组织的)秘书长,总干事,总书记:

    the UN Secretary General；the Secretary - General of the United Nations

  • He is secretary to the Governor 等句子里在 secretary 前面没有 a，后面接 to。

  • 职业：tester化验员，broker证券经纪人（好家伙，竟然是破产的人）

• nervous：

  • ~ (about / of sth) 焦虑的；担忧的；惶恐的:

    She was so nervous about her exams that she couldn’t sleep.

  • nervous smile/laugh/look/glance

• afford

  • can/could afford [usually negative] 买得起；(有时间)做,能做:
  • afford to do sth.

• weak

  • a weak light / signal / sound 微弱的光线/信号/声音
  • 疲软的；萧条的: a weak currency 疲软的货币

• interrupt

  • ~ sb. / sth. with sth.
  • Sorry to ~ you.
  • interruption [n]

• more一般位于数词之后名词前，有时也可置于名词之后。如：

  She has got five more electric fans．她还有五台电扇。

  more除跟数词外，还可与a little，a few，a lot，several等词连用，而且名词也可是不可数名词。如：

  I'd like to buy a few more copies of English Weekly．我想再买几份《英语周报》。

• see

  • to visit sb 拜访；看望；探视:

  • ~ sb (about sth) to have a meeting with sb 会见；会晤:

    »You ought to see a doctor about that cough. 你得找个大夫看看你的咳嗽。
    »What is it you want to see me about? 你找我有什么事？

• study [C] a room, especially in sb's home, used for reading and writing 书房

• look up

  • to get better : improve

    The economy is looking up.

    Things started to look up for me when I got the promotion.

  • look (something) up or look up (something)

  If you don't know what a word means, you should look it up (in the dictionary).
  look up a telephone number
  look up an article in the encyclopedia

  • look (someone) up or look up (someone) : =visit

  I told them to look me up if they came to town.

• irritable: getting annoyed quickly or easily易怒的；暴躁的

  lose / keep your temper (with sb) 发脾气；忍住怒火:

  »She lost her temper with a customer and shouted at him.
  她对一位顾客发了脾气,冲着人家大喊大叫。
  »I struggle to keep my temper with the kids when they misbehave.
  孩子们淘气时,我强捺住性子不发脾气。

- Sentences

• 直接引语 & 间接引语

  • 直接引语：

    She said, "My brother likes English very much!"

    (引号内首字母大写)

    • 原话放入引号，不改动；
    • 原话前可用逗号，冒号，多用逗号；
    • 原话后的标点放入引号内
    • 时态不管

  • 间接引语

    • 无逗号冒号引号

    • 前后呼应（人称、时态、时间地点状语）

      "Would you like to have lunch with me tomorrow?"he asked.

      He asked me to have lunch with him the next day.

      Sb. said that...

      Sb. told me that...

• He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries.

  business is good/bad/slow.

  pay salaries.支付工资； collect salary 领工资

• in a weak voice

• an extra thousand pounds a year

  an extra ten minutes/three metres etc

  数目 + extra + n

  Could you get me two extra pieces of bread?

  extra: n.

  Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 号外号外，快来看呐！

  （电影）临时演员，群众演员

• so + adj./adv. such + adj. + n

• 间接引语：

  • 表示一般真理，间接引语时态不变
  • 主语动词：say, tell, ask, admit, agree, reply, request, order, promise, etc.
  • 一般疑问句转述时注意连接词的使用

- Recommendation

• No news is good news.
• Wall Street1：Every dream has a price.
• Wall Street2：Money Never Sleeps.