ACT 3-2 這有可能是任何東西

【故事梗概】

Grandpa在和Arnold和Peggy聊天，他們都對(duì)Pete提到的那個(gè)“驚喜”感到好奇。這時(shí)Pete回來(lái)了，他帶來(lái)了另一位他們的老朋友Lillian Winters女士。

Arnold: How’s your family? Oh, I was sorry to hear about your wife having passed away.

Grandpa: Yes. About four years ago.

Peggy: And you’re living with your children now? In New York? Pete wrote us and told us.

Grandpa: Yup. Retired and moved to New York to live with my son and his family.

Peggy: By the way, what do you think this big surprise is?

Arnold: It could be most anything, knowing Pete.

[Another car arrives. ]

Grandpa: Hey, that must be Pete! Now we’ll find out about the surprise.

[They go to meet the car.]

Pete: So good to see you all!

Peggy: Oh, Pete, Pete! Oh, it’s so good to see you!

Pete: Remember Lillian?

Lillian: I remember all of you. You haven’t changed a bit.

Peggy: Lillian! Oh, my gosh!

Arnold: Lillian Winters. We were together in the Thursday night drama society.

【語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)精講】

1. Oh, I was sorry to hear about your wife having passed away.

噢，我聽(tīng)說(shuō)你夫人已經(jīng)故去了，感到很難過(guò)。

hear about: 聽(tīng)說(shuō)；得知。

pass away: 死去，去逝，逝世。pass away是 die的委婉說(shuō)法。類(lèi)似的說(shuō)法還有“pass on”以及“no longer with us”。

2. Yup.

這是Yes的口語(yǔ)表達(dá)方式。

3. By the way, what do you think this big surprise is?

我問(wèn)一下，你認(rèn)為這叫人意想不到的事是什么？

by the way: 順便說(shuō)說(shuō)，順便問(wèn)一下。by the way是常用的插入語(yǔ)，在提到臨時(shí)想到的事，與當(dāng)時(shí)所說(shuō)的話題無(wú)關(guān)的事，或?qū)σ颜f(shuō)的話添加一些說(shuō)明時(shí)使用。

4. It could be most anything, knowing Pete．

知道Pete這個(gè)人（的脾氣），就知道這有可能是任何東西。意思是說(shuō)，Pete這個(gè)人點(diǎn)子多，他說(shuō)的驚喜到底是什么，這很難猜準(zhǔn)了。

knowing Pete: 這里的動(dòng)詞現(xiàn)在分詞短語(yǔ)起狀語(yǔ)作用，表示原因。

5. Oh, my gosh!

啊呀，天哪。

這句話用來(lái)表示驚奇。gosh是為了避免直接說(shuō)God而轉(zhuǎn)的音。

6. You haven’t changed a bit.

你們一點(diǎn)也沒(méi)有變。這也是久別重逢時(shí)常用的寒暄語(yǔ)。

7. We were together in the Thursday night drama society.

我們當(dāng)年一起參加周四晚上的戲劇社。

society: 這里指的是社團(tuán)，團(tuán)體。