【英语早间课堂】If S did, S might do.

 Morning！I am Juliet. Nice to meet you on the air. Hope we could spend a wonderful morning together. An hour in the morning is worth two hours in the evening.

一天之计在于晨，若您有个美好晨间生活，相信您一天的生活都是美好的。A hard beginning makes a good ending. 常言道：善始善终。

【习题答案及点评】

Last time we talked about Sentences of Real Condition¹ and Sentences of Unreal Condition. We've got the following sentence patterns².1 If S did so, S would do something. 2 If S were somebody, S would do something. 3 If S were to do , S would do something. 【PS: S = 主语】

1 如果我把头发染成蓝色，大家都会笑话我。

If I dyed³ my hair blue, everyone would laugh at me.

2 如果我住在办公室附近，我就步行上班。

If I lived near my office. I would walk to work.

3 如果你晚上把单车放在外面，有人会偷的。

If you left your bike outside in the evening ,someone would steal it.

【今日主题】

This morning I would like to tell much more sentence patterns used⁴ to express something spoken of is impossible to be real. It's just a speaker's subjective⁵ wishes or conjectures⁶. It is "If S did, S might do." 表示对某人将来或是现在做某事的可能性很小甚至机会没有。

Jenny明知道John的这次试验是不会成功的，但是为了不打击John的积极性，还是鼓励John说到：If you tried again, you might be successful. 如果你再试一次，你可能会成功的。

Mary由于对电脑一窍不通，因此做起事来比同事们慢很多，于是自言自语到：If I know how to use computer inside and out, I might save a lot of time.如果我会电脑的话, 我可能会节约很多时间。

【温故知新】

Please translate the following sentences, using the sentence patter: if + s+ did, s+might do.

1 如果可能,我或许会去美国进修美国文学。

2如果可能，我可能体验一次。

3 如果我能在明天下午4点之前完成我的工作，我可能会改在在明天下午4 点去你办公室和你见面。

 

转自可可英语

 

1 condition   

n.条件，状况，情况，地位；v.调节，制约，以…为条件

参考例句：

• The house is in a good condition.房子条件良好。
• His condition has more or less improved.他的情况多少有些改善。

2 patterns   

榜样( pattern的名词复数 )； 样品； 花样； 方式

参考例句：

• changing patterns of behaviour 行为变化模式
• a rightward shift in voting patterns 选举格局的右倾化转变

3 dyed   

给…上色，着色( dye的过去式和过去分词 )； 能染上颜色

参考例句：

• She dyed her hair blonde. 她把头发染成了金黄色。
• He'd dyed his hair, which was almost unheard-of in the 1960s. 他染了头发，这在20世纪60年代是罕见的事。

4 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。

5 subjective   

a.主观(上)的，个人的

参考例句：

• The way they interpreted their past was highly subjective. 他们解释其过去的方式太主观。
• A literary critic should not be too subjective in his approach. 文学评论家的看法不应太主观。

6 conjectures   

推测，猜想( conjecture的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• That's weighing remote military conjectures against the certain deaths of innocent people. 那不过是牵强附会的军事假设，而现在的事实却是无辜者正在惨遭杀害，这怎能同日而语！
• I was right in my conjectures. 我所猜测的都应验了。