【英语早间课堂】Not another word.

 Not another word.

Good morning, everyone. This is the morning programme on KeKe Net Radio. I’m Juliet.

【口语讲解】

We have a short sentence which is often said by parents and can mean “Stop talking right now or you’ll be punished.” What’s it? Don’t worry about it , let’s listen to a simple situational dialogue and I’m sure you can find it.

Mike : Mom, Tommy pushed me. Jane : You children, stop fighting. Not another word.

Now have you spotted¹ it? It is “Not another word.” What’s more , if we want to ask a person to stop talking right now or he’ll be punished, how should we put it? Okay , easy, we just put a preposition² “from” or an adverbial phrase “out of ” after “word”, then it comes that “Not another word from (out of ) you. ”.

In addition, we should pay attention to the situation in which it’s often used. It is often said by a patent angrily when his children are quarrelling .

So much for the explanations to this conversational³ expression.

【学以致用】

And now I’m wondering if you’ve got it, so let’s put it into practice. Please translate the following scripts⁴ from hit American films.

（1）翻译下列美剧的经典语句。

1. 你什么都别说了。难道你没做过一件让自己后悔的事吗？

2 . 够了。打住。你们一个不要再说了。

Think them over and to answer are gonna be uncovered⁵.

美剧原句：

1. Not a word outta you. You don’t have anything to be sorry about?

Here, outta. o-u-t-t-a is the written form in American slangs which equals to “out of ”.

2. Enough! Stop! Not a word from any of you.

（2）用所学短语以及以上美剧句子创作情景对话。

We have a more difficult practice. Would you like to challenge it？Please think hard to make a situational dialogue with the above two conversational sentences from American films. The suggestive dialogue will be given later.

Sister: You should have hit the books when you were at school and you aren’t between jobs. So it’s beneath to complaint. Brother: Shut the fuck up. You don’t have anything to be sorry about?

Sister: Be nice, brother.

Mom: Enough! Stop! Not another word from any of you. You guys cannot just keep it down for a while?

【对话精彩点拨】

Here there are two American slangs. The first one is “hit the books” which means “to study hard”. The second one is “between jobs” which means “to be out of one’s job.

Except for those, here are three key sentences. They are as follows:

1. Shut the fuck up!

We’ve learnt it which means to shut you mouth and stop talking that .

2. It’s beneath your complaint.

It means there’s nothing to complain about. You ask for it.

3. Just keep it down. It means “to quiet down.”

so much for today's programme. Thanking for your listening . See you next time.

 

转自可可英语

1 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

2 preposition   

n.介词

参考例句：

• You should cancel this preposition in the sentence.你应该删去句子中的这个介词。
• We use different preposition to talk about time,days,months and seasons.我们用不动的介词来谈论时间，日，月和季节等。

3 conversational   

adj.对话的，会话的

参考例句：

• The article is written in a conversational style.该文是以对话的形式写成的。
• She values herself on her conversational powers.她常夸耀自己的能言善辩。

4 scripts   

剧本( script的名词复数 )； 文字； 笔迹； （一种语言的）字母系统

参考例句：

• Many felt he was prostituting his talents by writing Hollywood scripts. 许多人觉得他给好莱坞写剧本是滥用自己的才华。
• The scripts had a rather tired plot. 这部陈旧的剧本的情节是非常俗套的。

5 uncovered   

adj.无盖的，未保险的v.揭开…的盖子( uncover的过去式和过去分词 )；揭露，发现

参考例句：

• His head was uncovered. 他光着头。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police. 暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。 来自《简明英汉词典》