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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
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?Listen to paragraph 1.
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?Listen to paragraph 3.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
不到两周, 我就要毕业了 。
1,In less than two weeks,I’ll have graduated.
(Para 1)
This is an example of the use of the future
perfect tense,The future perfect tense tells us
something that will be past at or before a
certain time in the future.
I’ll have graduated within two weeks.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
By this time next week,you’ll have taken your
examination.
I hope it will have stopped raining before we have
to go.
I hope that everything I have told you will not
have been forgotten by the next lesson.
Examples:
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
2,I can still remember the first day of classes,looking
on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes
and asking where the classroom building was.
(Para 1)
我依然记得第一天去上课时的情景, 我一边望着课
表背面的地图, 一边打听教学楼在哪儿 。
Being a freshman of the university,the author was
not familiar with the school resources,That was
why he asked of others the location of the classroom
building on the first class day.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
3,Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the
next two weeks go more slowly,(Para 1)
每天我都祈愿时间会凝滞, 接下来的两周过得更
慢一些 。
“wish” is followed by a subjunctive clause here.
I wish it were cooler,(It is not cool,It is hot.)
I wish you had been to the cinema with us last
night,( You didn’t.)
Examples:
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
4.,.,and through many triumphs and failures I came
to know more about myself,(Para 2)
历经多次的成功与失败使我对自己有了更多的了
解 。
I had experienced many successes and many
failures,It was through these successes and
failures that I got to know myself better.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
5,As I walk down the familiar routes on campus,I
found myself doing a lot of soul-searching and
reminiscing,(Para 3)
走在校园熟悉的路上, 不知不觉中就陷入了深深的
反思和对往昔的回忆中 。
soul-searching,a deep examination of one’s mind
and conscience.
As I walk on the familiar campus road,I find myself
thinking about the passed days I spent at the college.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
6,The world is enormous and the possibilities are
endless,(Para 3)
世界如此之大，可能发生的事情太多太多。
The world is so big and who knows what will
happen (after graduation).
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
7,I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every
time I think about the fact that I’m going to be
graduating,(Para 4)
每每想到就要毕业, 我就打心眼儿里感到不安 。
I feel quite uneasy at the idea that I will
graduate from college.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
Every time I catch a cold,I have a pain in my
back.
Stormy applause broke forth the moment the
pop star appeared on the stage.
Examples,
None phrases like every time / the moment / next
time can also be used to introduce adverbial
clauses of time.
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
8,It’s too difficult to even contemplate the idea that
soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not
have a class to which I should be going,(Para 4)
It is so difficult for me to understand that soon I
will be waking up in the mornings and find there is
no class for me to go to.
甚至不敢想像早上醒来没有课上会是什么样的情形 。
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
Click and listen to the text.
?Listen to the whole text,
?Listen to paragraph 1.
?Listen to paragraph 2.
?Listen to paragraph 3.
?Listen to paragraph 4.
?Listen to paragraph 5.
?Listen to paragraph 6.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
不到两周, 我就要毕业了 。
1,In less than two weeks,I’ll have graduated.
(Para 1)
This is an example of the use of the future
perfect tense,The future perfect tense tells us
something that will be past at or before a
certain time in the future.
I’ll have graduated within two weeks.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
By this time next week,you’ll have taken your
examination.
I hope it will have stopped raining before we have
to go.
I hope that everything I have told you will not
have been forgotten by the next lesson.
Examples:
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
2,I can still remember the first day of classes,looking
on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes
and asking where the classroom building was.
(Para 1)
我依然记得第一天去上课时的情景, 我一边望着课
表背面的地图, 一边打听教学楼在哪儿 。
Being a freshman of the university,the author was
not familiar with the school resources,That was
why he asked of others the location of the classroom
building on the first class day.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
3,Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the
next two weeks go more slowly,(Para 1)
每天我都祈愿时间会凝滞, 接下来的两周过得更
慢一些 。
“wish” is followed by a subjunctive clause here.
I wish it were cooler,(It is not cool,It is hot.)
I wish you had been to the cinema with us last
night,( You didn’t.)
Examples:
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
4.,.,and through many triumphs and failures I came
to know more about myself,(Para 2)
历经多次的成功与失败使我对自己有了更多的了
解 。
I had experienced many successes and many
failures,It was through these successes and
failures that I got to know myself better.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
5,As I walk down the familiar routes on campus,I
found myself doing a lot of soul-searching and
reminiscing,(Para 3)
走在校园熟悉的路上, 不知不觉中就陷入了深深的
反思和对往昔的回忆中 。
soul-searching,a deep examination of one’s mind
and conscience.
As I walk on the familiar campus road,I find myself
thinking about the passed days I spent at the college.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
6,The world is enormous and the possibilities are
endless,(Para 3)
世界如此之大，可能发生的事情太多太多。
The world is so big and who knows what will
happen (after graduation).
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Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
7,I am getting a queasy feeling deep down every
time I think about the fact that I’m going to be
graduating,(Para 4)
每每想到就要毕业, 我就打心眼儿里感到不安 。
I feel quite uneasy at the idea that I will
graduate from college.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
Every time I catch a cold,I have a pain in my
back.
Stormy applause broke forth the moment the
pop star appeared on the stage.
Examples,
None phrases like every time / the moment / next
time can also be used to introduce adverbial
clauses of time.
Notes to the Text
Passage B Wish for Freshman Year
Experiencing English 1
8,It’s too difficult to even contemplate the idea that
soon I will be waking up in the mornings and not
have a class to which I should be going,(Para 4)
It is so difficult for me to understand that soon I
will be waking up in the mornings and find there is
no class for me to go to.
甚至不敢想像早上醒来没有课上会是什么样的情形 。
