入門級(jí)直接跳到 1 級(jí)，原因是只挑一些喜歡的書籍寫筆記。

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Author：Rowena Akinyemi [英]

書名原文：Love or Money?

羅伊納·阿金耶米是英國(guó)人，但在非洲度過(guò)了許多年。本書是她為英語(yǔ)學(xué)生寫的第一部故事。

//搜不到作者詳細(xì)信息，不過(guò)他的書蟲作品挺多的，以下是 Kindle 美區(qū)中 Goodreads 社區(qū)的評(píng)論，類似豆瓣。

Rowena Akinyemi?

Born: The United Kingdom

Show: Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. She was worked in English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Love or money? Was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms Library, and she has now written several other stories for the series, including Remeber Miranda and The Witches of Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective stories.

——From Goodreads

'Nothing's wrong,' Jackie said. 'Why are you telephoning? You are going to come this weekend? Mother wants everyone to be here.'

//are 在這里使用了斜體，一般是為了標(biāo)注重點(diǎn)。Jackie 可能在電話中重讀了這個(gè)單詞， 想知道 Diane 打電話的目的：你是…打算這周回家？

// Jackie? 文中翻譯為杰基，小杰應(yīng)該也行，不過(guò)音譯與意譯的區(qū)別，人名大多音譯。

?She felt angry because her sister always asked for money. Diane was twenty years old, the youngest in the family.?

//自己二十二啦，還打游戲，伸手啃老，Jackie 做我姐姐能氣死過(guò)去。

'She wants money for her train ticket.'??

Molly closed her eyes for a minute.?

//做過(guò)足球守門員，當(dāng)球來(lái)到身邊時(shí)，會(huì)不自覺(jué)閉眼，逃避痛苦。

' I'm very late. I am sorry,' Albert said.

//可以翻譯為：我很… 抱歉。

//重讀，加強(qiáng)語(yǔ)氣。

//其實(shí)沒(méi)一點(diǎn)抱歉的意思，不然也不會(huì) Always late.，心虛而已，欲蓋彌彰。

Molly closed her eyes for a minute. 'I know that, Albert. I am fifty years old, but I am always her "little" sister. Well, we can talk about it later.'

//在大部分父母眼里，兒女永遠(yuǎn)都是小孩子。在 Albert 眼里, Molly 永遠(yuǎn)是小妹，即使已經(jīng)五十歲了，也是一樣。

//Molly 第二次閉眼。

Diane laughed. 'It doesn't matter, Roger. I don't need your help. Mother always helps me. Mother loves me best.' She suddenly smiled, a quick, beautiful smile. But her eyes were cold.

//嚇人的笑

'One day I'm going to kill that woman,' Diane said quietly.

Roger looked at Diane but said nothing.?

//極端的情緒

The window was open but the room was warm.?

//這一段描寫是什么意思。

'No! You tell them! Nobody loved Mother. You aren't sorry. Look at you! You want her money. That's all.'

Roger suddenly wanted to hit Diane.

//"是你…去告訴他們", 黛安娜在這里已經(jīng)慌到情緒失控了。 重讀的 You 就可以看出此時(shí)所有麻煩都是別人的，自己準(zhǔn)備兩手一攤。

Roger did not move..he thought. 'I am happy about the money.'

//“我很…高興有錢了?！?羅杰盡管很高興，但在這里保持住了理智。

'Dr Pratt, I want to tell you about last night. Everyone was very angry...'

'Be quiet!' Roger said quickly.

//家丑不可外揚(yáng)。

'Oh, no. Later. Let's see Jackie Clarkson next.'

//Inspector 自己餓了就找家里最年長(zhǎng)的 Jackie，期望會(huì)招待他們一餐，真是個(gè)機(jī)靈鬼。

'No, Inspector. Money is not important to me. There are more important things,' Jackie said quietly.

//更重要的事就是書名：愛(ài)情

What a happy family the Clarksons were!

//Diane 抖出了所有糗事，讓外人看笑話，對(duì)家人，對(duì)自己都是自暴自棄，不負(fù)責(zé)。

//在這里就可以看出羅杰當(dāng)初讓黛安娜安靜一點(diǎn)的原因：說(shuō)話心直口快，不動(dòng)腦筋，很容易傷人，還顯得黛安娜愚蠢。要想釜底抽薪的一次性解決這個(gè)毛病，單純的只是不然人說(shuō)話可不是好辦法，因?yàn)榭傆泄懿蛔』蛘卟辉趫?chǎng)的時(shí)候。要想有所改變，最關(guān)鍵的是要做好榜樣，剩下的就看她自己好了。

'Tablets? Oh, yes. I remember. Jackie wanted me to get her mother's tablets from the village. I go to the village on my bicycle—this car doesn't work.'

//看到這里猜到一半誰(shuí)是兇手。

Tom's face went red. 'Who? Oh! That's a friend. It's not... It was a long time ago.'

//看到這里猜出另一半。

'It doesn't matter now!' Diane said. 'Mother is dead and we have a lot of money. You don't need a job.'

Roger's face went red again. 'Be quiet, Diane!'

//整本書最精彩的部分，遍地雞毛。

'No. We found the empty bottle in Diane's room. We told you that. You talked about Diane's bag;

//這就是 Inspector 審問(wèn)的手段嗎，高超。

'Well,' he said to Sergeant Foster, 'in the end, they got the money: Albert, Roger, Diane. They're all rich now. But are they going to be happy?'

//擁有了金錢，擁有了愛(ài)情，變得快樂(lè)了嗎，變得幸福了嗎。最后的落腳點(diǎn)放在了心想事成上，要是全部都要按照心里想的方式來(lái)，稍有不慎就會(huì)跌入不可挽回的深淵。還是理想與現(xiàn)實(shí)所沖突的問(wèn)題。

Exercises

A Checking your understanding

Chapter 1 Which person in the chapter...

1 ... went into the kitchen to get a drink of water?

//Jackie

2 ... went to the doctor?

//Molly

3 ... has no money for the train ticket?

//Diane

4 ... made some sandwiches?

//Jackie

5 ... is very angry with Molly?

//Peter Hobbs

Chapter 2 Who said these words in the chapter?

1 'It's very difficult and very expensive, you know.'

//Albert?

2 'I want to go to America. Can you help me, Roger?'

//Diane

3 'It's a lot of work for you. The house is big, too. '

//Roger?

4 'Nobody is getting more money from me, not before I die!'

//Molly

5 'One day I'm going to kill that woman.'

//Diane

Chapter 3 Write answers to these questions.

1 Who brought Molly a cup of coffee?

//Diane

2 Who phoned the doctor?

//Diane Clarkson

3 When did Molly have a new bottle of tablets?

//Thursday?

4 Was Molly ill on Thursday?

//No, I don't think so. The reason one is Jackie's replies in Chapter 1.?

1: She's at the doctor's, Jackie answerd, Nothing is wrong.

and the reason two is the doctor Pratt's tells in Chapter 3.?

2: I don't know. Your mother wasn't ill. I saw her on Thursday and she was very well. Why did she die? I don't understand. I want to find out.

Chapter 4 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 Sergeant Foster usually played tennis on Sunday mornings.

//Personal opinion: True?

//He was not very happy this morning because he usually played tennis on Sunday mornings.

2 Molly got her sleeping tablets from a shop in Cambridge.

//Personal opinion: False

'Tell me, did your mother get her tablets from the shop in the village?'

'Yes…'

3 Jackie made hot milk and took it to Molly.

//Personal opinion: False

Diane made hot milk and took it to Mother.

4 Money was not important to Jackie.

//Personal opinion: False…

'No, Inspector. Money is not important to me. There are more important things,' Jackie said quietly.

Chapter 5 Find answers to these questions in the text.

1 Who wanted to build ten houses in the garden?

//Roger

Roger's face was suddenly afraid…A friend and I want to build ten houses here, in this garden.

2 What did the police find in Diane's room?

//The empty bottle of sleeping tablets

We found the empty bottle of sleeping tablets, Mr Clarkson, in Diane's room.

3 Who did Jackie love a long time ago?

//The gardener

He was the gardener. Jackie loved him very much, but Mother said no.

4 Who was in the kitchen on Saturday night?

//All the Clarksons, Peter Hobbs, Tom Briggs

All the family were in the kitchen last night. Peter Hobbs and Tom Briggs were there, too.

Chapter 6 Who said these words in the chapter?

1 'I lost my job, my first job, because of her.'

//Peter Hobbs

2 'Now tell me about the tablets.'

//Inspector Walsh

3 'I'm losing money on this farm and I need more land.'

//Tom Briggs

4 'It was a long time ago.'

//Tom Briggs

Chapter 7 How much can you remember? Check your answers.

1 Who visited Molly every month and took money from her?

//Diane

2 Where did the police find the empty bottle?

//bag

3 Where was Jackie's picture?

//Mr Briggs' house.?

4 Who loved Tom Briggs?

//Jackie

B Working with language

Use these words to join the two sentences together.

so　　and then　　because

1 Jackie felt angry. Her sister always asked for money.

//Jackie felt angry because her sister always asked for money.

2 Roger got out of bed. He opened the door quietly.

//Roger got out of bed and then he opened the door quietly.

3 Inspector Walsh always felt cold. He wore a coat.

//He wore a coat because Inspector Walsh always felt cold.

4 Diane opened the back door. She went out with the dogs.

//Diane opened the back door and then she went out with the dogs.

5 I'm losing money on this farm. I need more land.

//I'm losing money on this farm and then I need more land.

6 I don't need your help. Mother always helps me.

//I don't need your help because mother always helps me.

Put these sentences in the right order. Then check your order with chapter 3 .

1 Molly's arm was cold. She was dead.

2 Dr Pratt phoned the police.

3 Early next morning there was a cry from the room next to Roger's.

4 Roger went to tell Albert and Jackie about Molly... and about the police.

5 Diane phoned the doctor.

6 Dr Pratt went upstairs and looked at Molly's body.

//315624

C Activities

1 Write Inspector Walsh's diary for Sunday.

//What a terrible day, I could not go to cinema with my girlfriend.?

Today’s work is about the Clarksons. Somebody was murdered.?

Believe it or not, I knew the person who killed Molly, and let us see tomorrow.

2 Write about a person that you do not like in the story.

//破題。

REVIEW

愛(ài)情與金錢本來(lái)有一件就可以使人快樂(lè)、幸福，書中人物幾乎全部得到了自己想要的，可是似乎沒(méi)有一個(gè)人快樂(lè)。即便得到自己夢(mèng)寐之物也未必快樂(lè)，又何必因?yàn)闆](méi)有得到而獨(dú)自傷悲。

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