爱华网课文详注 Further notes on the text
1．What's Ron Marston like, Pauline? 波琳，朗·马斯顿是怎样一个人？
What is sb. like? 这一句式可用来询问某人的外貌或品行。就本课的具体情况而言，波琳的回答更多地是指马斯顿的品行如何。
2．He telephoned me four times yesterday… 他昨天给我打了4次电话……
four times, 4次。 time在英语中作不可数名词时表示“时间”；作可数名词时表示“次数”。请注意英语中次数的表示法：
once 1次
twice 两次
three times 3次
3次或 3次以上通常都用基数词+ times表示：
five times 5次
thirty times 30次
3． the day before yesterday, 前天。
4．answer the telephone, 接电话。
口语中也常用 answer the phone。类似的短语如：
answer the door／doorbell 应声开门
answer a letter 回信
5．She can't speak to you now! 她现在不能同你讲话！
speak to sb. 意为“与某人说话”。例如打电话时可以说：
May I speak to Pauline, please? 请让波琳接电话好吗？
I' d like to speak to Pauline, please. 我想请波琳听电话。
6．This is Pauline's mother. 我是波琳的母亲。
This is…是英美人打电话时表示“我是……”的句式，而不说I'm…。相关的电话用语如：
This is Mary speaking. 我是玛丽。
This is Edward calling from London. 我是爱德华，现正在伦敦给你打电话。
语法 Grammar in use
一般过去时（2）
（请参见 Lessons 67～68语法部分。）
be动词以外的动词在一般过去时中一般有两种形式。规则动词一般是在动词后面加-ed，如 answered；以-e结尾的规则动词加-d，如 telephoned, arrived。另一部分动词的过去式拼写不规则，因此称为不规则动词，如：say----said, do----did。
用一般过去时的句子中常常有表示过去某一时刻的时间状语，如本课中的 yesterday（昨天），the day before yesterday（前天），yesterday morning（昨天上午），yesterday afternoon（昨天下午），yesterday evening（昨天晚上），last night（昨夜）。
词汇学习 Word study
answer
（1）v. 对……作出反应；响应：
Who answered the telephone? 谁接的电话？
Mary took a few minutes to answer the door. 玛丽拖了几分钟时间才去开门。
（2）v. 回答；答复：
I don't think you've answered my question. 我认为你没有回答我的问题。
I wrote him several letters but couldn't get an answer. 我给他写了好几封信，可都没有回音。
（3）n. 答案；解决办法：
Do you know the answer to Question 10? 你知道第10题的答案吗？
This is one of the possible answers to today's environmental problems. 这是有可能解决当今环境问题的办法之一。
练习答案 Key to written exercises
Lesson 72
A
1 It is raining now. It rained yesterday.
2 It is snowing now. It snowed yesterday.
3 He is boiling some eggs. He boiled some yesterday.
4 We are enjoying our lunch. We enjoyed it yesterday, too.
B
1 What did they do yesterday?
They cleaned their shoes yesterday.
2 What did he do last night?
He opened the box last night.
3 What did they do this morning?
They sharpened their pencils this morning.
4 What did she do this evening?
She turned on the television this evening.
5 What did she do last night?
She listened to the radio last night.
6 What did she do yesterday morning?
She boiled an egg yesterday morning.
7 What did they do yesterday afternoon?
They played a game yesterday afternoon.
8 What did he do in the morning the day before yesterday?
He stayed in bed in the morning the day before yesterday.
9 What did she do yesterday evening?
She telephoned her husband yesterday evening.
10 What did she do the night before last?
She called the doctor the night before last
