A.Useful expressions:

1. recogniz/se (not used in the continuous tenses) know sb/sth again

Jeanne didn't recognize Mathilde at the first sight because she had

changed too much.

2. accept v. take sth offered willingly *refuse

receive v. get or take sth sent or given

I received the invitation and I've accepted it.

3. after all = in spite of what has been said, done or expected 畢竟, 終究

After all, this ball is very important.

4. marry sb be/get married to sb marriage n.

She married a man with a lot of money.

She was married to a man with a lot of money.

*They've been married for 30 years.

5. call on sb = visit sb. call on sb. to do sth = appeal to sb to do sth

So I called on you and asked if I could borrow some jewellery.

The UN is calling on the two sides to stop fighting.

6. pretty adj. (esp. of a woman, a child, or a small thing) pleasing or nice to look

at, listen to, etc. charming but not beautiful or grand

She looks prettier with short hair than with long hair.

pretty adv. in some degree, rather, quite though not completely

My grandma is in her eighties, but she is still in pretty good health.

7. day and night

During the next ten years we both worked day and night to pay back the

money.

8. pay back/off = to return what one owes

Well, after all these years we've at last paid back all the money.

9. worth adj.

It was worth 500 francs at the most.

The place is worth a visit.

*I don't think this book is worth reading.

10. not ... any more = not any longer

On my way home that night I looked down and saw that the necklace was not

around my neck any more.

B. Sentence patterns:

1. I don't think I know you.

But I don't think we can go to the ball.

這是否定轉(zhuǎn)移句。一般用于有禮貌地否定，使說(shuō)法較為客氣，把客觀事

實(shí)說(shuō)成主觀意見(jiàn)。

如：He is a dishonest man. 為了減少貶義的直接說(shuō)法，先把這句變?yōu)?/p>

He is not an honest man. 然后再變?yōu)?I don't think he is an honest man.