新目標(biāo)英語九年級 Unit10-12 知識詳解
they don’t use animals to do farm work any more.
他們不再使用牲畜做農(nóng)活了。
7. these days, i hardly ever have time for concerts. (p14) 現(xiàn)在，我根本沒有時間去聽音樂會。
(1)本句中的these days意為“現(xiàn)在，目前，如今”，相當(dāng)于nowadays, at present。
we are not poor any longer these days. 如今我們不再貧窮了。
they still remember that old saying these days. 現(xiàn)在他們?nèi)匀挥浀媚蔷涔?a href="http://www.jcsycorp.com/tool/yanyu/">諺語。
(2)hardly用作副詞，意為“幾乎不”，相當(dāng)于almost not，本身含有否定之意，修飾名詞時，常和a或any連用。
i’m so tired that i can hardly walk any farther. 我太累了，簡直不能再走下去了。
there was hardly a cloud in the sky. 天空幾乎沒有一絲云彩。
魔力糾錯
他簡直不知道說什么好，是嗎？
誤：he hardly knows what to say, doesn’t he?
正：he hardly knows what to say, does he?
魔力解析
hardly本身含有否定意義，構(gòu)成反意疑問句時，后半部分要用肯定形式。類似的詞有few, little, never, none, nobody, nothing等。
特別提示
hardly不是hard的副詞形式，兩者是完全不相關(guān)的兩個詞。
8. now, i don’t mind them. (p14)現(xiàn)在我不介意它們了。
動詞mind的基本含義是“介意，反對”，后面接名詞或動名詞。
he doesn’t mind closing the window. 他不介意關(guān)掉窗戶。
知識拓展
would you mind doing...?句型常用來向別人提出請求，對方如果表示介意，就說“yes”；如果表示不介意、不反對，應(yīng)說“no, not at all./no, of course not.”。
— would you mind telling me how to remember english words?
你介意告訴我如何記英語單詞嗎？
—no, not at all. 不，不介意。
特別提示
mind還可用作名詞，表示“思想，主意”。
what do you make up your mind to be when you grow up?
你長大以后立志要做什么？
短語鏈語
never mind不要緊，不介意；keep in mind記��；make up one’s mind下決心，下決定；set up one’s mind to do sth立志做某事; change one’s mind改變主意。
9. it seems that yu mei has changed a lot. (p15)俞梅似乎變化很大。
動詞seem是“看起來像”，“似乎”的意思，其常用的句型有：
◎it seems+that 從句
it seems that he would never be able to work out the question.
看來他好像永遠無法解決那個問題。
◎seem+形容詞
your father seems quite happy. 你的父親看起來很高興。
◎seem+動詞不定式
li fang seems to know everything.李芳好像什么都知道。
特別提示
“it seems+that 從句”通�？梢赞D(zhuǎn)化成“名詞/代詞+seems+動詞不定式短語”這一簡單句型，如果動詞不定式短語是“to be+形容詞”，to be可以被省略。
it seems that his temperature is all right.
=his temperature seems (to be) all right. 他的體溫似乎很正常。
it seems that she doesn’t get on well with her classmates.