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第 13 期
一、視頻課
趣味動漫
瘋狂動物城 三
BBC英語大破解
Electric car island 電動汽車島
要點
有關 「energy （能源）」 的詞彙
問題
What is the electricity in the cars used for at nighttime?
文稿
The savage beauty of Porto Santo attracts tourists who love nature. But people need energy and the way it's generated here is damaging nature. This pollution's coming from the diesel generator which powers the island's homes. Transporting the diesel is expensive and it's fuelling climate change.
波爾圖桑塔的原始美景吸引著熱愛大自然的遊客。但是人們的生活需要能源，而這裡製造能源的方式正在破壞自然環境。（畫面中的）這種汙染來自島上居民使用的柴油發電機。運輸柴油非常昂貴，運輸過程也加劇了氣候變化。
The local government want clean, renewable energy instead. But wind power and solar power ebb and flow, so they need a way of storing energy for use at nighttime. Here's the chosen solution - the electric car, but not as we know it.
當地政府想要的是清潔的、可再生能源。但是風能和太陽能不夠穩定，所以它們需要一種儲存能量的方法，以供夜間使用。這就是他們選擇的解決方案——電動汽車，但不是我們所知道的那種電動汽車。
In future, electric vehicles here will be fitted with a reversible battery that stores energy for the electricitygrid. So how does a reversible battery work?
未來，這裡的電動汽車將配備一種可逆電池，為電網儲存能量。那麼可逆電池是如何工作的呢？
When the Sun is shining, the electricity flows out of the grid, down the cable and into the car. Then it's stored in the battery until nighttime, when it flows back out of the car, up the cable and into the grid to power people's homes. The car is smart, so it keeps enough power for itself to be driven.
當陽光充足時，電力從電網中流出，順著電纜流入汽車。然後它被儲存在可逆電池裡，直到夜晚，它再流出汽車，通過電纜進入電網，為用戶家庭供電。這輛汽車很智能，所以它還能保持足夠的動力供駕駛使用。
On Porto Santo, some police [cars] are already powered by electricity. To run an effective backup for the local grid, half the cars on the island, like this electric taxi, will need to store power as well as using it.
在波爾圖桑塔，一些警車已經靠電力驅動。為了給當地電網提供有效的電力備份，島上一半的汽車，比如這款電動計程車，需要儲存和使用電力。
So is this the road to the future? Well, a couple of years ago, if you'd suggested that car batteries could play a major part in supporting an electricity grid, a lot of people would have laughed. But that is exactly what’s happened. The electricity revolution is going to create a lot more surprises.
這是通往未來的道路嗎？幾年前，如果你說汽車電池可以在支持電網方面發揮重要作用，很多人都會覺得這是個笑話。但事實正是這樣。電力革命將帶來更多的驚喜。
詞彙
generated 產生，製造（能量）
renewable 可再生的
reversible 可逆的
electricity grid 電網
powered 驅動，為……提供動力
答案
At nighttime, the stored electricity flows back out of the car, up the cable and into the grid to power people's homes.
二、口語題
可以避免的口語小錯誤，你都知道嗎？
今天為大家總結了中國學生常犯的一些口語錯誤，這裡給大家高亮一些也許你們都會中槍的……
1. 我等會兒順道去你家把你的東西給你。I will drop by at your house and give your stuffs to you.(×)
這個句子中，順道去…順便拜訪…可以直接使用 drop by somewhere。
需要注意的是：drop by後面不能加介詞短語，可以直接「地方」，比如：drop by your place, drop by your office。
也可以用stop by和swing by來表示。
而「順便把東西給某人」，可以用drop off。這個短語很地道，可以表示「把某個東西送到某個地方」或者「把某人送到某個地方」例如：
Just drop me off at the next intersection.就在下個路口把我放下吧。
所以「我等會兒順道去你家把你的東西給你。」這句話正確的說法應該是：
I'll drop by your place and drop off your stuff later.
2. 我們一起吃晚飯，聊聊近況吧。Let's have dinner together and talk. (×)
"talk"這個詞就是you use spoken language to express your thoughts, ideas, or feelings.意思是談話，說話，講話。和聊聊近況還有點差距。
聊聊近況，敘舊，我們有個很簡潔的詞：catch up。例如：
I promise you to catch up with you later.我保證晚點跟你聊聊近況。
如果catch up 後面跟具體的人，要用介詞with。例如：
和某人敘舊 catch up with sb.
聊聊彼此的近況 catch up with each other
所以「我們一起吃晚飯，聊聊近況吧。」這句話正確的說法應該是：
Let's have dinner and catch up.
Let's catch up over dinner.
3. 你能把剪刀遞給我嗎？Could you please hand me over that scissors? (×)
這句英文錯就錯在，犯了「意象思維」的錯誤，「遞給…」意象性的理解為「hand over」。但其實hand over的意思是把…上交給某人。例如：
Hand over the phone to the teacher.把手機交給老師。
如果表示「把…遞給某人」可以說：
Hand sb. sth.
Hand sth. to sb.
Pass sb. sth.
Pass sth. to sb.
所以正確的說法是：
Can you pass/hand me the scissors?
Can you pass me those scissors?
4. 你要這個平板幹嘛？What do you need the tablet for? (×)
首先我們先好清楚「用…做…」可以用 「want…for…」 或「need…for…」 。如果對for後面的內容進行提問，相對應的特殊疑問句就應該用what引導。或者不用介詞for, 疑問詞用why。
Why do you need this tablet?
正確表達：你要這個平板幹嘛？我們可以說：
What do you want the tablet for?
注意不要所有的平板都用「iPad」來表示哦，iPad只是眾多品牌中的一種。
5. 我整晚都在寫這篇論文。I cost whole night writing this paper. (×)
「花費…時間」我們可以說：Sb. spend some time on sth. 例如：
I spent two hours on this puzzle.我花了兩個小時做這個拼圖。
或者spend time doing…
I spent two hours solving the puzzle.
或者 it takes sb. some time to do sth.
這個拼圖花了我兩個小時。It took me two hours to solve the puzzle.
而一般不使用cost。Cost主要表示花費錢財，或者付出一定代價。例如：
It cost me a lot to get there.去那裡花了我不少錢。
所以「我整晚都在寫這篇論文。」 這句話正確的說法應該是：
I spent the whole night on this paper.
I spent the whole night writing the paper.
I worked on this paper the whole night.
I was writing this paper the whole night.
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