Growing pains教案

據我所知當克里思蒂娜小的時候你和她一起度過很多時光。
 i understand是訪談節目和外交場合中一個常用的辭令，它比i know,  i hear, i guess更靈活，對所提及信息的來源和可信度都沒有明確的說法，可以根據上下文譯成“據我所知、我聽說、我猜、我個人的理解是…等”, 也可以說my understanding is…….。
back= in the past, 常出現在口語當中。

5. many people in families become upset with each other over small problems.
許多家庭成員之間因為一些小問題彼此不愉快。
upset 作vt/ vi 時重音在第二個音節上，過去式和過去分詞同形，表示“弄翻、傾覆、擾亂、使不安”。也可作名詞，重音在前。本句話里upset是過去分詞，become的表語。
表示紛爭的起因，用介詞over. 例如：
the two countries often fight over border disputes.
they are always quarreling over minor differences.
6. small problems become big ones, however, if they are not discussed and dealt with early on.
然而，如果不盡早商討解決，小問題就會變成大問題。
deal: n. 數量，a (good/ great) deal of +不可數名詞，交易，如： it’s a deal(成交)；v.分配、經營。詞組deal with 有 和….做生意、與…有來往、對待、對付、相關、處理等意思。它作“處理”講時，要和do with區分清楚。deal with作“處理”講時是指“怎樣對付或解決”，提問時用how; do with作“處理”講時是指“使用、處置”，提問時用what。例如：
how did you deal with pollution in the river?—we tried to treat the city’s sewage before it poured into the river.
what did you do with the sewage?-- we treated it and recycled it for industrial use.
early on：near the beginning“在早期、剛開始的時候”，多用于口語中。

7. recently he has been refusing to do his homework, and instead insists on wasting his time watching dvds and listening to foreign music.
近來他一直拒絕做他的家庭作業，固執地把時間浪費在看dvd和聽外國音樂上。
have/has been doing是現在完成進行時，指說話前一段時間一直進行或多次重復的動作。
insist on+n/doing sth: 堅持、堅決主張(做某事)；或insist＋從句 “that sb (should) do sth”。
要注意persist in＋n/doing sth也是“堅持”，但insist on堅持的是看法或主張,竭力主張去做某事；persist in堅持的是行為和做法，即不放棄正在進行的事情。例如:
he persisted in doing that experiment though the smell in the lab was getting worse and worse.
she insisted on going out for a picnic though the sky looked ominously dark.

8. what am i to do?
我該怎么辦？
相當于what shall i do? be動詞＋不定式表示按計劃和情理將要或應該發生的事。例如：
the president elect is to make his inaugural speech on monday.
you are to follow his instructions to the word.

9. when i refuse to listen to him, he shouts at me and the two of us fight like crazy.
要是我拒不聽從，他就對我大喊大叫，我們倆就會象瘋了一樣爭吵。