1. Would you mind giving a talk today about DNA? 你今天可以作一個關于脫氧核糖核酸的報告嗎？

　　would you mind + doing 是禮貌提出請求的句型你干某事好嗎？。要特別注意它的回答：表示同意用Certainly not或Of course not. 表示不同意，用Im sorry, but 如：--- Would you mind lending your new bicycle to me? --- Certainly not. 當然可以。--- Would you mind waiting for some time? --- Im afraid not, for I have something important to do right now. 恐怕不行，因為我有重要的時馬上要做。

　　2. If Dr Baker is in the hall, will he please make himself known to me? 如果貝克博士在這個大廳里，請他給我作個自我介紹，好嗎？

　　make oneself known自我介紹：Here are my friends. Would you make yourself known to them? 這兒都是我的朋友，你愿意向他們作自我介紹嗎？掌握其它幾個類似結構: make oneself understood使自己被理解; make oneself heard使自己被聽到; make oneself seen 使自己被看到。如: Speak louder or you cant make yourself heard. 大聲點，否則別人聽不到你的聲音。The baby always make himself understood by the way of crying. 嬰兒總是通過哭來讓大人們了解他的需求。

　　1. Can you ring up the bus company? 你能給汽車公司打個電話嗎？給打電話有幾種說法: call sb. (up) on the telephone; telephone sb. /phone sb.; give sb. a phone call; ring sb. up; give sb. a ring

　　2. Can I take a message? 要不要留個話？message 常和下列動詞搭配：take a message 帶口信；give a message 傳達口信；leave a message　留口信，如：Would you like to give a message to him? 請你給他捎個口信，好嗎？

　　3. Dr Baker replied to the invitation, accepting it. 貝克博士答復了請帖，接受了邀請。reply ①不及物動詞：Please reply to my question. 請回答我的問題。②及物動詞：He replied that he knew nothing about it. 他回答說這件事他一點也不知道。③名詞： He made no reply to this question. 對于這個問題他沒作回答。

　　4. He decided to attend the meeting though he was still a bit surprised. 他還是決定出席這個會議。attend 表示參與、參加, 和 join / take part in 的區別: join: 加入到某一組織、團體或人群中去，成為其中的一員：join the club 加入俱樂部; take part in: 指參加某一活動: take part in the discussion 參加討論; attend: 參加或出席會議、聚會、講座，上課: attend a meeting 參加會議; attend the concert 出席音樂會; attend the lecture聽講座。

　　5. He wondered why they had invited him. 他納悶的是，他們為什么邀請他。掌握動詞wonder 的兩個意思①自問ask oneself：I wonder who he is. 我不知道他是誰。常用來表示請求 I wonder if you could give me a hand? 請問你是否可以幫我一個忙。②驚奇：I wondered to hear her voice in the next room. 我聽到隔壁她的聲音，十分驚訝。We wonder at the fact that you werent killed. 你竟未遇難，令人驚奇。wonder也可作名詞: the wonders of modern medicine 現代醫學奇跡 No wonder you were late!　難怪你來晚了!

　　6. I hope very much that he will be able to give a talk on a different subject. 我非常希望他能就另一個不同的課題作個報告。give a talk on 作關于的報告：The doctor gave a talk on family health. 那位醫生作了關于家庭保健方面的報告。

　　7. Everybody knows that youre an expert on the subject. 大家都知道你是這一課題方面的專家。an expert on 是的專家；an expert in/at 表示擅長某技能：His father is an expert on foreign affairs. 他是一個國際事務專家。He is an expert at medicine. 他精通醫學。

　　8. The organizer had put Dr P Bakers name on the list of speakers, but when the invitation list was being done, someone had made a careless mistake and had written Dr D Baker instead. 組織者曾將P?貝克博士的名字列入演講人的名單,但是,在開列請名單時,有人粗心大意弄錯了,寫成了D?貝克博士。副詞instead(替代)常位于句末，漢譯時不譯出,如：Today we wont have rice for supper; well take noodles instead. 今天晚餐我們不吃米飯，而吃面條。

　　9. Im doing research in ENT at Lincoln College in Tennessee. 我正在田納西州林肯學院從事耳鼻喉方面的研究。do research in/on 從事研究工作：He has done a lot of research on that subject. 他對那個課題進行了大量的研究。

　　10. But Dr Lively was going to talk on that very subject today. 而萊芙莉博士今天要談的正是這個題目。這句中的very 是形容詞，就是、正是，表示強調: This is the very thing I want.　這正是我想要的東西。He is the very man Im looking for. 他正是我要找的人。

　　1. Would you mind giving a talk today about DNA? 你今天可以作一個關于脫氧核糖核酸的報告嗎？

　　would you mind + doing 是禮貌提出請求的句型你干某事好嗎？。要特別注意它的回答：表示同意用Certainly not或Of course not. 表示不同意，用Im sorry, but 如：--- Would you mind lending your new bicycle to me? --- Certainly not. 當然可以。--- Would you mind waiting for some time? --- Im afraid not, for I have something important to do right now. 恐怕不行，因為我有重要的時馬上要做。

　　2. If Dr Baker is in the hall, will he please make himself known to me? 如果貝克博士在這個大廳里，請他給我作個自我介紹，好嗎？

　　make oneself known自我介紹：Here are my friends. Would you make yourself known to them? 這兒都是我的朋友，你愿意向他們作自我介紹嗎？掌握其它幾個類似結構: make oneself understood使自己被理解; make oneself heard使自己被聽到; make oneself seen 使自己被看到。如: Speak louder or you cant make yourself heard. 大聲點，否則別人聽不到你的聲音。The baby always make himself understood by the way of crying. 嬰兒總是通過哭來讓大人們了解他的需求。

　　1. Can you ring up the bus company? 你能給汽車公司打個電話嗎？給打電話有幾種說法: call sb. (up) on the telephone; telephone sb. /phone sb.; give sb. a phone call; ring sb. up; give sb. a ring

　　2. Can I take a message? 要不要留個話？message 常和下列動詞搭配：take a message 帶口信；give a message 傳達口信；leave a message　留口信，如：Would you like to give a message to him? 請你給他捎個口信，好嗎？

　　3. Dr Baker replied to the invitation, accepting it. 貝克博士答復了請帖，接受了邀請。reply ①不及物動詞：Please reply to my question. 請回答我的問題。②及物動詞：He replied that he knew nothing about it. 他回答說這件事他一點也不知道。③名詞： He made no reply to this question. 對于這個問題他沒作回答。

　　4. He decided to attend the meeting though he was still a bit surprised. 他還是決定出席這個會議。attend 表示參與、參加, 和 join / take part in 的區別: join: 加入到某一組織、團體或人群中去，成為其中的一員：join the club 加入俱樂部; take part in: 指參加某一活動: take part in the discussion 參加討論; attend: 參加或出席會議、聚會、講座，上課: attend a meeting 參加會議; attend the concert 出席音樂會; attend the lecture聽講座。

　　5. He wondered why they had invited him. 他納悶的是，他們為什么邀請他。掌握動詞wonder 的兩個意思①自問ask oneself：I wonder who he is. 我不知道他是誰。常用來表示請求 I wonder if you could give me a hand? 請問你是否可以幫我一個忙。②驚奇：I wondered to hear her voice in the next room. 我聽到隔壁她的聲音，十分驚訝。We wonder at the fact that you werent killed. 你竟未遇難，令人驚奇。wonder也可作名詞: the wonders of modern medicine 現代醫學奇跡 No wonder you were late!　難怪你來晚了!

　　6. I hope very much that he will be able to give a talk on a different subject. 我非常希望他能就另一個不同的課題作個報告。give a talk on 作關于的報告：The doctor gave a talk on family health. 那位醫生作了關于家庭保健方面的報告。

　　7. Everybody knows that youre an expert on the subject. 大家都知道你是這一課題方面的專家。an expert on 是的專家；an expert in/at 表示擅長某技能：His father is an expert on foreign affairs. 他是一個國際事務專家。He is an expert at medicine. 他精通醫學。

　　8. The organizer had put Dr P Bakers name on the list of speakers, but when the invitation list was being done, someone had made a careless mistake and had written Dr D Baker instead. 組織者曾將P?貝克博士的名字列入演講人的名單,但是,在開列請名單時,有人粗心大意弄錯了,寫成了D?貝克博士。副詞instead(替代)常位于句末，漢譯時不譯出,如：Today we wont have rice for supper; well take noodles instead. 今天晚餐我們不吃米飯，而吃面條。

　　9. Im doing research in ENT at Lincoln College in Tennessee. 我正在田納西州林肯學院從事耳鼻喉方面的研究。do research in/on 從事研究工作：He has done a lot of research on that subject. 他對那個課題進行了大量的研究。

　　10. But Dr Lively was going to talk on that very subject today. 而萊芙莉博士今天要談的正是這個題目。這句中的very 是形容詞，就是、正是，表示強調: This is the very thing I want.　這正是我想要的東西。He is the very man Im looking for. 他正是我要找的人。