Unit 2 I used to be afraid of dark.

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. 他不介意關上窗戶。
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？
短語鏈接
never mind不要緊，不介意；keep in mind記住；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。
8. i really miss the old days.
①miss在這里為“懷念”的意思。
how he misses his mother while she is away in london!
他媽媽在倫敦期間，他多么想念她啊！
②此外miss還有“缺”的意思。
i’m afraid that jim will miss a lot of his lessons.
恐怕jim會缺很多課。
③錯過
i missed catching the 2：15 train.
我未趕上2點15分的火車。
④missing 失去的，缺少的，不在的，失蹤的。
they are looking for the missing child.
他們在尋找失蹤的孩子。
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”通常可以轉化成“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.
＝she doesn’t seem to get on well with her classmates. 她似乎與同學們相處得不好。
10. however, after his father’s death a few years ago, martin’s life became much more difficult. （p16）然而，幾年以前，在他父親死后，馬丁的生活變得更困難了。
下列句中的dead意為“死的”，是形容詞，表示“死的，無生命的”，常與be動詞連用，指死的狀態。
he is dead, but his name will live in our hearts forever.
他雖然死了，但他的名字將永遠留在我們心中。
her grandfather has been dead for more than two years. 她的爺爺去世兩年多了。
特別提示
die, dying, death也可以表示“死”。
◎die意為“死亡，斷氣”，是終止性動詞，指生命的結束，強調動作。
his mother died two years ago. 他的母親兩年前去世了。
◎dying是die的現在分詞，通常作形容詞使用，是“要死的”，“垂危的”，“瀕臨死亡的”的意思。