情景会话口袋书人际篇86:搬家(2)

 　　5. I can help you to move the house on that day.

　　那天我可以帮你搬家。

　　还能这样说：

　　I can give you a hand to move the house that day.

　　I volunteer to help you move on that day.

　　应用解析：

　　bring the house down 使观众或听众喝彩或掌声如雷；

　　on the house 由店家或公司负责费用

　　6. I am very thankful that you can come to help us move.

　　非常感谢你能来帮我们搬家。

　　还能这样说：

　　Thank you for helping¹ move our house.

　　I appreciate your help for us to move the house.

　　应用解析：

　　How comes it that? 为什么？怎么回事？

　　7. We had better find some movers to help us move.

　　我们最好找些搬家工人帮助我们搬家。

　　还能这样说：

　　We will call the movers and ask them to move the ouse for us.

　　Some movers are needed to help us move.

　　应用解析：

　　find it difficult to explain 觉得难以说明；

　　find great satisfaction in 在……中得到很大满足；

　　find expression in 在……表现出来；

　　find sb. guilty 断定某人有罪

　　8. We moved a lot when I was young.

　　在我很小的时候我们经常搬家。

　　还能这样说：

　　We often moved from pillar² to post when I was a child.

　　In my childhood, we often moved.

　　应用解析：

　　young at heart 人老心不老；

　　not get any younger 变老的；

　　young and old 老老少少；不分老少

1 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 pillar   

n.柱子，柱状物；有力的支持者；栋梁

参考例句：

• He was a pillar of the club for over thirty years.30多年来他一直是这个俱乐部的顶梁柱。
• I fell asleep against a pillar.我靠在一根柱子上睡着了。