一、Reading
There are several foreign student in my class. John is American. He's from the United States. Laura is Spanish. She's from Spain.
Chen and Huang are Chinese, but they are not from China. They're from Malaysia. They're overseas Chinese.
We're from different countries, but we all get along well.
二、解析
■ There are several foreign student in my class.
句型:
There is + 单数名词 + 表场所的介词短语。
There are + 复数名词 + 表场所的介词短语。
- 表:There
- 系:are
- 定:several foreign
- 主:student
- 地状:in my class.
- 介:in
- 宾:my class.
■ John is American.
- 主:John
- 系:is
- 表:American.
■ He's from the United States.
- 主:He
- 系:is
- 表:from the United States.
- 介:from
- 宾:the United States.
■ Laura is Spanish. She's from Spain.
- 主:Laura
- 系:is
- 表:Spanish.
- 主:She
- 系:is
- 表:from Spain.
- 介:from
- 宾:Spain.
Spanish:形容词作表语。
Spain:名词作表语。
注:大多数情况下是使用形容词作表语。
■ Chen and Huang are Chinese, but they are not from China
- 主:Chen and Huang
- 系:are
- 表:Chinese
- 主:they
- 系:are
- 状:not
- 表:from China.
- 介:from
- 宾:China.
■ They're from Malaysia. They're overseas Chinese.
- 主:They
- 系:are
- 表:from Malaysia.
- 介:from
- 宾:Malaysia.
- 主:They
- 系:are
- 定:overseas
- 表:Chinese.
■ We're from different countries, but we all get along well.
- 主:We
- 系:are
- 表:from different countries
- 介:from
- 定:different
- 宾:countries.
- 主:we
- 定:all,修饰 we
- 系:get,渐变类系动词。
- 表:along,副词做表词
- 状:well. 副词修饰之前的 get along
all用法:
此处的 all 是形容词,译成“全部的”或“所有的”,修饰三个或三个以上的人或东西。
- 与代词连用时,置于该代词之后;
- 与普通名词连用时,通常置于该普通名词前;
- 与专有名词连用时,通常置于该专有名词之后;
both用法:
both也是形容词,用来修饰两个人或东西,可译成“二者都”。