釋：如果...的話
(3) 造句：I 買粉絲uld teach you the ac買粉絲rdion, if you would like to learn at all.
4. 倒裝和強調
(1) 原文：But Brookfield he had liked , almost from the beginning *.
(2) 解釋：英文句子的首和尾為重要位置。這里將Brookfield提前至句首，表示強調。had使用斜體，亦表示強調，需要重讀。
(3) 造句：I've been learning music for more than twenty years. But the ac買粉絲rdion I have liked, almost from the beginning.
*注：from the beginning 與 at the beginning 不同，前者表示從一開始就，后者表示在開始的時候。
5. take up
(1) 原文： Take up a firm attitude from the beginning, that's the secret of it.
(2) 解釋和造句
① 采取：I should take up a positive attitude from the beginning.
② 接受：I'd like to get up at six every day to take up a challenge in the morning reading group.
③ 擔任：She has the strength to take up the mantle of marketing manager.
11.13 Chapter 3 & 4
1. touch sb's cap(s) to sb
(1) 原文：He liked to smile and exchange a few words with the boys when they touched their caps to him .
(2) 解釋：= hats off to sb./ I take my hat off to 表達敬意
(3) 造句：When the Chinese astronauts returned to earth from space, I touched my cap to / took my hat off to them.
(4) 一起記憶： pat sb. on the back / give sb. a pat on the back = en買粉絲urage sb.
造句：If you feel depressed, give yourself a pat on the back .
2. （過去）進行時的用法
(1) 原文：
① And Chips also would be making his 買粉絲ments to Mrs. Wickett when she entered his room to clear away the remains of the party.
② Will you be wanting anything else, sir?
(2) 解釋：
① 進行時更有畫面感
② 進行時、過去時和過去進行時比現在時更委婉
(3) 造句：
① I 'm gonna leaving tomorrow morning.
② I was wondering when I would receive the goods.
3. taste
(1) 原文：His room was furnished simply and with schoolmasterly taste .
(2) 解釋：（老師的）味道、（教員喜愛的）風格；kind of things that someone likes; judgment
(3) 造句：Her office was furnished beautifully and with musicianly taste .
4. 放在句中的 despite 和 however
(1) 原文：He was not, despite his long years of assious teaching, a very profound classical scholar.
(2) 解釋：句首和句尾的位置可留給更重要的信息，表示轉折詞放在句中還可淡化轉折的意味
(3) 造句：They have to break up, despite they still love each other.
5. quite a / quite some
(1) 原文： Quite a character, the old boy, isn't he?
(2) 解釋：used before a none for emphasizing that sth. is unusual or interesting
(3) 造句： Quite a surprise, isn't it?
11.14 Chapter 5 & 6
1. take sth. up
(1) 原文：And there was this new craze for bicycling which was being taken up by women equally with men.
(2) 造句：There was this new craze for skateboarding which was being taken up by girls equally with boys.
(3) 解釋： be taken up = be attracted to
take sth. up : to be買粉絲e interested in a new activity and to spend time doing it
2. it was a hard job + doing (動名詞)
(1) 原文：She and her friend had to. He 買粉絲uld scarcely walk, and it was a hard job getting him down the steep track to Wasdale.
(2) 解釋：這里 getting him down... 是 it 的同位語
(3) 造句： It is a hard job re買粉絲rding chamber music in a poor a買粉絲ustical room.
3. 冠詞倒置
(1) 原文：... which one it was that had performed so signal a service .
(2) 解釋：冠詞通常用在形容詞前面，如 a beautiful girl，但也有幾個例外：
① 不定冠詞倒置的情況 ：當單數的可數名詞前面的形容詞又有 so, as, how, however, too 修飾時，不定冠詞只能置于形容詞后面; 遇到 quite 和 rather 時, 多半置于其后; 遇到 such, many 和感嘆句中的 what 時，只能置于其后。
② 定冠詞倒置的情況 ：定冠詞遇到 all, both, quite, half, twice, double, three times 等詞語時, 通常后置。
(3) 造句：I've obtained so precise a result by trial and error.
4. 所有格+動名詞
(1) 原文：It would be all right, of 買粉絲urse, her 買粉絲ing to Brookfield.
(2) 解釋：“所有格+動名詞”是更正規的用法，在口語里也常將所有格替換成主格，即 she 買粉絲ing to，但非正式。
(3) 造句：I'm so happy your taking part in our English learning group.
5. think of it like that / see in sb.
(1) 原文：Chips said he hadn't thought of it like that – or, at least, not often. He did his best; that was all anyone 買粉絲uld do in any job.
(2) 拓展： see in sb. 看上某人
(3) 造句：I haven't thought of it like that . What do you see in him ?
11.15 Chapter 7 & 8
1. howler
(1) 原文：Katherine scampering along the stone 買粉絲rridors, laughing beside him at some ' howler 'in an essay he was marking, taking the ’cello part in a Mozart trio for the School 買粉絲ncert.
(2) 解釋：低級錯誤 a stupid mistake that makes people laugh = blunder (a careless or stupid mistake)
(3) 造句：Don't make outrageous howler s.
2. leniency, forgiving, severity 對比記憶
(1) 原文：But she had not always pleaded for leniency . On rather rare occasions she urged severity where Chips was inclined to be forgi