articles

articles的基本解释

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[变形] article的第三人称单数

n.

文章, 物品, 条款, 冠词, 物件, 项目

v.

清楚说出

adj.

表达清晰的

与articles相关的情景对话

衣食住行/相貌

A:

Do you think appearances are important?

你认为相貌重要吗？

B:

If you’re superficial, appearances can be important.

如果你比较肤浅，相貌就会很重要。

A:

Don’t you think everyone is a bit superficial?

你不认为每个人都有点肤浅吗？

B:

I guess maybe a little. But in the end, it’s someone’s personality that’s important. Why do you ask?

我想大概都有一点儿。但是最终还是一个人的性格重要。你为什么问这个？

A:

I have a job interview tomorrow. I’m worried that someone more attractive than me will get the job.

我明天有一个工作面试。我担心长得比我有吸引力的人会得到这个工作。

B:

You can’t be serious.

你不会是认真的吧。

A:

I’ve read many articles about how attractive people get higher salaries than ugly people.

我读过许多关于长得好看的人比长得不好看的人如何如何得到更高的薪水的文章。

B:

You can’t believe everything you read.

你不能相信你所读到得所有内容。

A:

I know, but I think it’s accurate to say that people like attractive people.

我明白。但我认为，确切地说，人们的确喜欢有魅力的人。

B:

I guess that may be true sometimes, but I know that’s not always the case.

我想有时的确是这样的。但就我所知，事实也并不总是如此。

A:

Why’s that?

为什么？

B:

Well, I’m not particularly handsome, and I’ve got a great job!

这个…我就并不特别英俊，而我却有一份好工作。

职场英语/工作

A:

How may I help you?

我能帮你做点什么？

B:

I’m looking for a job.

我正在找工作。

A:

What kind of job are you looking for?

你要找哪种类型的工作呢？

B:

I don’t know exactly. I’m kind of looking for a change.

我也不确定，但希望有所变化。

A:

What field have you been working in?

你过去在哪个领域工作。

B:

I’ve been working in the education field. But, to be honest, I’d like to find a job that pays better.

我过去一直在教育领域工作。但是说实话，我想找一份薪水高些的工作。

A:

What kind of experience do you have?

你有哪类工作经验。

B:

I was a high school English teacher for 10 years. In that time, I also organized class trips, helped students raise money, and was the head of the faculty for the last 3 years.

我在高中教过10 年英语。在那段时间里，我组织过班级旅游，帮助学生集资，并且后三年是教师中的负责人。

A:

Did you do any writing while you were at the school?

你在学校的时候写过什么吗？

B:

Yes, I taught writing classes, worked with the students to make the year book every day, and also did some freelancing on the side.

写过，我教过写作课，并且每年都和学生们一起负责年刊的编写。此外还做些兼职。

A:

What kind of freelancing?

哪种兼职？

B:

I had a few articles published in some magazines and newspapers. I also wrote a textbook.

我在一些杂志和报纸上发表过文章，还写过一本教材。

A:

What kind of job are you looking for now?

你现在想找哪方面的工作？

B:

I’d like a 9-5 office job.

我想找一份朝九晚五的办公室工作。

A:

Would you be interested in working in the publishing field?

你对出版界的工作感兴趣吗？

B:

That’s a possibility. Do you have anything available?

这也是一种可能。有没有这类的工作呢？

A:

Let me check my computer.

让我在电脑中查一下。

校园生活/查找图书

A:

Excuse me. Can you tell me how to find some books on social science?

请问，能告诉我怎样查找社会科学书籍吗？

B:

Sure. You see all these little drawers here and all the way around the walls?

当然。你看到靠墙排列的这一个个小抽屉了吗？

A:

Yes.

看见了。

B:

These drawers contain cards describing every book in our library. Together they constitute the library’s “card catalog”.You can see that each drawer runs from one part of the alphabet to another. For example, this drawer goes from SCA to SCM.

这些抽屉里装着这本图书馆所有图书的卡片，它们构成了图书馆的“卡片目录”。你可以看出每只抽屉都是从字母表中的一部分排到另一部分。比如说这只抽屉，就是从SCA 排到SCM。

A:

So if I’m looking for a look called A History of Western Society, I’d just look under “A”.

这么说，如果我要找一本《西方社会史》的话，就在“A”的分类下找。

B:

No. You’d look under “W”. The articles “a” and “the” don’t count in our alphabetization, and card are generally omitted for extremely common words and phrases such as “history of”, “introduction to”, “story of” and so forth.

不。应该“W”下找。冠词“a”和“the”不包括在字母排列中。一般来说，目录卡片往往省略一些特别常用的词和词组。如“history of”，“introduction to”，“story of”等等。

A:

What if I don’t know the title of the book?

如果不知道书名怎么办？

B:

When you can look under the author’s name.

那你可以在作者名下找。

A:

Could you give me an example?

能举个例子吗？

B:

Suppose you want to find a book by your professor, William Smith. You’d look under SMITH and then WILLIAM. Since that’s a very common name, you may have to go through several “William Smith” until you come to the one who wrote book on the subject you’re interested in.

假如你要找一本你的导师威廉?史密斯教授写的书，你可以在SMITH 栏下寻找，由于William Smith 是一个很常见的姓名，你可能得查阅很多William Smith 才能找到你所感兴趣的书的那位William Smith。