第一次参加晨读，早晨时间不允许，全程只能事后听回放。老实讲对这种几十年前的英文书不是很感兴趣，而且感觉生词太多，超出我的能力范围，但是认真听过回放后发现依然可以在自己的能力范围内学到很多，所以这次我的目标也是把晨读中Eric提到的内容学明白就好。非常感谢Eric!
以下是笔记流水账，很多地方还需要再查字典做功课。
1. get on in years: （字典上没有查到）年纪渐老
When you are getting on in years, you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across the landscape.
at times: sometimes
2. call-over： 点名
3. Greenwich time: 格林尼治时间
4. high-pitched: 声音尖锐的
5. wound up the clock 注意wound的读音
6. Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully, more like a mystic intensifying of perception than any changeful entrance into another world.
倒装句， 这个句型经常用哦
7. recollection 美[ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃən] 注意读音 n. 回忆，追忆; 往事; 回忆录; [宗] 冥想;
8. ..., you are going to die a really natural death
He died young.
He died a hero.
He died a nobody.
9. put in for 申请
10. Brookfield was playing Barnhurst. A is playing B A和B比赛
11. I-er-gather that discipline was not always your strong point at Melbury?
gather: think, suppose
strong point: 强项 strong suit, forte
12. Take up a firm attitude from the beginning
take up a challenge
13. ordeal
14. legitimate 注意发音
15. implacable 无休止的
生活大爆炸 relentless, implacable badgering
16. ...; the scowl he assumed to : put on
17. ..., you have a hundred lines. 罚写
18. hats off to sb, pat on the back
19. Nice to meet you. 首次见面
Nice meeting you. 离别时说的话
20. walnut cake 核桃蛋糕
21. keep watch 固定用法
22. spoonful, mouthful 是名词
23. And Chips also would be making his comments- to Mrs. Wickett when she ....
进行时态的使用使得行文更有画面感
24. Will you be wanting anything else, sir? 进行时态、过去时态语气委婉
I wonder...
I am wondering...
I was wondering...
25. He was not, despite his long years of assiduous teaching,...
当并不想表达强烈的转折的意味时，however, despite这类表转折的词可以放在句中或句尾。
26. So there he lived, at Mrs. Wickett's, with his.... 在...家
27. legible script 字迹清晰的
28. He had new masters to tea, as well as new boys.
as well as 和and不一样，强调的是前面的部分，and是并列平行关系
29. Quite a character
quite a read
口语中常用，表赞美、惊奇等等这种情形
30. which was being taken up by women : 被喜欢
31. relish: enjoy
32. ..., filled him with horror.
33. it was a hard job getting him down
i'm having a hard time hearing you. 我听不到你说话
34. ..., and as she considered herself responsible for Chip's accident,...
35. ..., she used to bicycle along the side of the lake... bicycle这里是动词
36. ... and wonder which one it was that hat performed so signal a service. 冠词后置
或者so, too, that 后面跟名词形容词时，冠词后置，参见Eric的微信推文
37. It would be all right, of course, her coming to Brookfield;
动名词，比较正式。可以换成she,但口语化了
Your taking part in Phonomicy English is a good thing
38. What do you see in her? 你看中她哪里了？
I do love you for saying simple things like that.
39. ineligibility 注意发音，两种都可以
40. gem-clear 玉石一样的清楚
crate-clear
another memory gem-clear
41. self-depreciating 自黑
depreciate 贬值
ambitious 注意重音
42. thoroughly 注意发音
43. mock test 模考
mock interview 模拟面试
44. For his marriage was triumphant success. Katherine conquered Brookfield as she had conquered Chips; She was immensely popular with boys and masters alike. alike的用法
注意triumphant 的重音
45. cello 美[ˈtʃeloʊ]
46. trio 三重奏，三人组
duo 二人组
47. And so it stood,... 不及物动词
stand这里是remain的意思
You filled a comfortable niche in my mind.
48. scampering 蹦蹦跳跳的
49. ..., her creamy arm (was) sweeping over the brown sheen of the instrument
独立主格结构
50. blunder 严重错误 howler滑稽可笑的错误
51. advice 不可数名词
52. 注意after all的读音 all
53. try doing 和 try to do的区别
54. leniency 心慈手软
But she had not always pleaded for leniency. On rather rare occasions she urged severity where Chips was inclined to be forgiving." I don't like his type, Chips. He's too cocksure for himself. If he's looking for trouble I should certainly let him have it."
plead 恳求
act the cute
55. treasure, better, pride 都可以当动词使用
56. "Please, sir, may I have the afternoon off? " 下午请见
"Can I miss Chapel, too, sir?" 不去教堂
57. “You can go to blazes for all I care.”
fire
58. he kicked open the door. kicked the door open
he cut open the watermelon.
He tore them open.
59. ..., but each contained nothing but a blank sheet of paper. nothing but 用来强调
His English is nothing but phynominion.
60. ..., but the Head persuaded him otherwise.
otherwise 的用法要查，让我们的表述更简洁。
Some people believe..., others think otherwise.
61. Just as marriage had added something, so did bereavement.
Just as..., so...
Just as the body needs regular exercise, so too an engine needs to be run at regular intervals.
Just, too都可以省略
62. overhear 无意听见
Hi, guys, I overheard your conversation, you talking about ....
63. not half bad = pretty good 还不错
“Not half bad for an old chap like him.”
64. Too old at fifty- why, fellows like that are too young at fifty.
why 在这里是个语气词
未完待续。。。
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