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Lesson 16 A polite request 彬彬有礼的要求

If you park your car in the wrong place, a traffic policeman will soon find it. You will be very lucky if he lets you go without a ticket. However, this does not always happen. Traffic police are sometimes very polite. During a holiday in Sweden, I found this note on my car:' Sir, we welcome you to our city. This is a "No Parking" area. You will enjoy your stay here if you pay attention to our street signs. This note is only a reminder.' If you receive a request like this, you cannot fail to obey it!

• 第一个if. 假如,如果,要是. 本文翻译成"一旦"(Once, in case, now that).
• traffic policeman 交警
• park (car/van车辆) prep/adv ..
• let sb go without sth 这个用法很好, 没付款就走
• welcome sb to some place
• enjoy sb's stay here 在这里过得愉快
• pay attention to
• reminder 程度不同的同义词 warning, alarm, alert, admonition, monition, word of advice
• cannot fail to do: fail to do 想做没做; 或者应该做没有做. 这里应该是后者
• obey UK /əʊ'beɪ/ US /oʊ-/ (adj. obedient) 反义: disobey/disobedient

From the police's View:

I am a 'usual'[=> common :170130] traffic police in Sweden. We are using a system to locate those illegal-parking cars. In order to keep traffic 'smoothly[=> smooth]'[=> moving :170130], we planned a series of areas for parking cars. But some drivers always breach the rule although we have given them tickets of punishment. Now we introduce a new policy to deal with this sort of things: notes of warm reminder rather than parking tickets are given to these drivers. Since this policy starts, the number of the illegal 'parks'[=> parkings :170130] decreases.

Knowledges

• locate If you locate something or someone, you find out where they are.
• 违停: illegally park(v.); illegal parking (adj.)
• keep sth adj. 这里keep xx smoothly是错的
• 车位 parking spot/space, stall(停车场内的长型车位), carport 停车棚
• breach 违反 (v.同break). agreement/law/promise/rule
• deal with 应付
• this sort of things 此类事情

Funny notes of reminder:

If you park your car in the wrong place, the traffic police will find it out and leave you a parking ticket. That is the common phenomenon in most of countries in the world. But it is different in Sweden. Swedish police often stick notes of warm reminder on the illegal parking cars. "Sir, we welcome you to our city. Here is 'No parking' area. If you pay any attention to the signs in the street, you will enjoy your stay here. Just keep for reminder. " They think if people received such requests, they cannot fail to obey it.

Knowledges

• find or find out? 这个不是很明白
  • 相同点, 指得知某一事实

  • We found out (found / discovered) that she was wrong / noise attracts attension.
    - 不同点: 表示看不到正在找的东西, 一定要用find.
    - find out 表示很容易便发现事实 I found out the train times.

• phenomenon [fə'nɒm.ɪ.nən] common/universal/widespread
• most(adj.) countries / most(n.) of countries
• stick sth on / to / in etc sth
• street signs 街上的标志 比 the signs in the street 来得简洁
• keep for 这里用得很强. 原话是 this note is only a reminder.

Remembers

• 违停: illegally park(v.); illegal parking (adj.)
• phenomenon [fə'nɒm.ɪ.nən] common/universal/widespread

(作文时间: 2017-xx-xx, 耗时: xx 分钟)

30天后修改意见

修正 usual的错误表达
修正 the illegal parkings 的错误表达
优化 keep traffic moving 的表达

(修改时间: 2017-01-30, 耗时: 15 分钟)