副词aloud表示"出声', loudly表示 "大声"。注意loud可以当作副词和talk, speak, laugh连用,例如:They laughed loud and long. Can you speak a little louder?
2. You can't write exactly the way people speak.
你不能原封不动地按照人们日常说话的习惯来写。
the way people speak在这里是方式状语,people speak是定语从句,修饰先行词the way。这句话较正式的写法可以是:
You can't write exactly in the way that people speak.
You can't write exactly the way in which people speak.
3. But I don't think you are being fair at all.
但我觉得你这样做一点也不公平。
Be+being 构成了be动词的进行时,后面跟形容词或名词,表示主语当前的状况,也可以表示进行时的被动语态。例如:
You are silly.你很蠢。(对人的评价,在这里是一种人身攻击)
You are being silly你现在的行为或想法很蠢。(就事论事)
He is polite.他有礼貌。
He is being polite.他这样做是出于礼貌。
Many rivers and lakes are being polluted through out China.
4. I understand you used to spend a lot of time together back when Christina was younger.
据我所知当克里思蒂娜小的时候你和她一起度过很多时光。
I understand是访谈节目和外交场合中一个常用的辞令,它比I know, I hear, I guess更灵活,对所提及信息的来源和可信度都没有明确的说法,可以根据上下文译成"据我所知、我听说、我猜、我个人的理解是...等", 也可以说My understanding is.......。
Back= in the past, 常出现在口语当中。
5. Many people in families become upset with each other over small problems.
许多家庭成员之间因为一些小问题彼此不愉快。
Upset 作vt/ vi 时重音在第二个音节上,过去式和过去分词同形,表示"弄翻、倾覆、扰乱