Lesson 29 Taxi!

taxi n.出租車
同義詞:cab n.出租車
相關:taxi meter計價器
taxi stand = taxi rank 出租車站
call ataxi 叫車，打車
例句:對不起,請問出租車站在哪里?
Excuse me, do you know where the taxi rank is please?

land v.著陸，登陸n.陸地
搭配: land on …在…著陸
highland 高地
motherland 祖國
很多地名都有land構成:
Iceland 冰島
Greenland 格陵蘭
Ireland 愛爾蘭
Thailand 泰國
Scotland 蘇格蘭
例句:宇宙飛船最終在地球著陸。
The spaceship finally landed on the earth.
例句:我家門前有一片濕地。
There is a piece of wetland in front of my home.
例句:無論我身在何處，我深深地愛著我的祖國。
Wherever I am, I deeply love my motherland.

plough v.耕地，開墾 n.耕地，北斗七星
搭配:plough on 堅持不懈
例句:在古羅馬時期，11月是辛勤耕耘和播種的月份。
In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.
例句:如果我們一直犁到天黑,就可以把這塊地犁完了。
If we plough on until it’s dark, we should get this field finished.

lonely a.偏僻的，人跡罕至的,孤獨的
搭配:lonely hearts 交友廣告
區別:alonea.一個人的[沒有感情色彩]
例句:在陌生的城里只身一人，
我感到不知所
措、孤單寂寞。
I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone.
例句:他在一份雜志上刊登了征友廣告。
He placed a lonely hearts ad in a magazine.

roof n.屋頂，口腔頂部
區別:ceiling n.天花板
搭配:go through the roof 非常高 暴跳如雷
例句:昨晚，其中幾個犯人出現在房頂上。
Last night some of the prisoners appeared on the roof.
例句:韓國藝術品的價格飛漲。
Prices for Korean art have gone through the roof.

block n.一座大樓，街區，塊 v.阻擋
搭配: a block of … 一塊…
put one’s head on the block 鋌而走險
例句:他繞著這個街區轉了3圈。
He walked around the block three times.
例句:Vincent鋌而走險槍銀行。
Vincent put his head on the block to rob the bank.

flat n.公寓a.平的
相似: apartment 公寓
unit 公寓
house大房子
town house 兩層房子
villa 別墅
搭配:flat shoes 平底鞋
high heel shoes高跟鞋
flat feet 扁平足

desert v.廢棄
例句:年輕職工對不喜歡的工作容易擅自離職。
Young workers are more willing to desert
jobs they don’t like.
例句:他們驅車600英里穿越沙漠。
They drove 600 miles across the desert.

課文部分

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The ‘taxi’ is a small Swiss aeroplane called a ‘Pilatus Porter’. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett’s first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

語言點

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
笨機長入手的士兮，運營一項新業務。
unusual a.不尋常的
構成:un-否定前綴“不”usual a.普通的
相關:usually adv.經常地
帶“un”的詞:
lock v.鎖定 unlock v.解鎖
comfortable a.舒服的 uncomfortable a.不舒服的
unreal a.不真實的 unfriendly a.不友善的
unwelcome a.不受歡迎的 unhouse v.趕出家去

The ‘taxi’ is a small Swiss plane called a ‘Pilatus porter’
的士與眾不同兮，出身原是瑞士出產小飛機。
引號的用法:英文中單引號和雙引號區別不大
直接引語 He said, “Hello, girl!”
特殊含義或者表示強調He is so “good”
書名號“Gone with wind”
Swiss a.瑞士的n.瑞士人，瑞士語
Switzerland n.瑞士

It can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.
飛機著陸無敵兮，風雪河流耕地全駕馭。
even ad.甚至，即使，更加 a.公平的，平等的,平坦的
例句:他特別喜歡讀書，在早晨，在下午，甚至在半夜。
He likes reading so much: in the morning, afternoon, or even at midnight.
例句:Conan說得比平常還要慢。
Conan was speaking even more slowly than usual.
例句:我需要一個平坦的桌子面。
I need an even desk surface.

Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
機長堅守原則兮，商賈刁蠻被鄙夷。
refuse v.拒絕
用法:refuse to+動詞原形拒絕做… from+人
refuse+名詞/代詞 柜絕.
搭配:too good to refuse難以拒絕[條件太好]
例句:他請我再喝一杯，我沒有接受。
He offered me a second drink which I refused.
例句:他給我們的禮物太難柜絕。
He qave us a qift which is too good to refuse.