05_The_Facts
05 The Facts¶
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began:'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall (which surrounds the president's palace).' The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax (informing the journalist that {if he did not reply soon he would be fired}). When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax (in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps (leading to the 15th foot wall (which surrounded the president's palace))).
Words¶
- statistics /stəˈtɪstɪks/ 统计学
- journalist /ˈdʒɝnələst/ 记者
- instructed /ˌɪnˈstrʌktəd/ 委派
- palace /ˈpæləs/ 宫殿
- republic /riˈpʌblək/ 共和国
- fax /fæks/ 传真
- reluctantly /rɪˈlʌktəntli/ 不情愿地
- originally /ɚˈɪdʒənəli/ 起初,原来
- poor /pur/ 可怜的
not only¶
not only + will/can ...¶
And you will not only have to pay him to do this, far more important, you'll have to agree with him.
And not only will you have to pay him to do this, far more important, you'll have to agree with him.
not only + have/has/had ...¶
You not only have done your work, but it looks like you've done Anderson's work as well…
Not only have you done your work, but it looks like you've done Anderson's work as well…
not only + do/does/did...¶
Well, the good news is I not only know men, but straight guys are my specialty.
Well, the good news is not only do I know men, but straight guys are my specialty.
not only + am/is/are/was/were...¶
'Cause she is not only pretty, but... she'll make all your decisions for you.
'Cause not only is she pretty, but... she'll make all your decisions for you.
部分倒装¶
句首否定词: 包括但不限于
- not/nor/neither
- not only
- never
- no
- hardly
- little
- no sooner ... than seldom
- not until
Expressions¶
- go to extreme(s) to do sth. 不惜一切代价去做某事
- publish + a book/an article/report... 出版书/发表文章/报告
- send sb. a fax… 给某人发传真
- get impatient 变得不耐烦
- get/be fired 被解雇
- provide sb. with sth. 给某人提供某物
- sb. be instructed to do sth. 某人被指示做某事
- instruct sb. to do sth. 指示某人做某事
- write an article on/about sth. 写一篇关于/关于某事的文章
- find out sth. 查明某事
- sb. take a long time to do sth. 某人花很长时间做某事
- go to press 送印
- inform sb. that + 句子 通知