时间:2019-03-01 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


听播客学英语 188 撇号灾难 - 英语课
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   In a podcast last week, I talked about apostrophes – the little commas that we sometimes write above letters in English. Do you know the rules about when to write an apostrophe, and when not to write one?


  You should write an apostrophe;
  1. when you leave letters out. For example, when you write “I’m” instead of “I am”.
  2. to show possession or ownership. For example, “John’s shirt is red”. “John’s” means “belonging to John” – the shirt belongs to John, so we write an apostrophe before the letter “s”.
  You should not write an apostrophe:
  1. in front of a letter “s” where the “s” is the plural 1 ending of a noun. For example, “I have three books” has no apostrophe – the “s” at the end of “books” simply means that “books” is plural – there is more than one book. So, no apostrophe.
  2. in personal adjectives and pronouns such as hers, his, its, theirs, yours.
  There is an exercise on apostrophes which you may find helpful – if you are listening on iTunes or an iPod you will need to go to the podcast website to find the exercise.
  I have to tell you that many English people get very confused about when to use an apostrophe and when not to. If you visit Britain, you will find lots of examples of public signs, notices in shop windows etc where someone has written an apostrophe which should not be there. The worst offenders 2 are people who sell fruit and vegetables from market stalls You will often see signs saying “apple’s” or “orange’s” with an apostrophe that should not be there. We often call these “greengrocers’ apostrophes” – a greengrocer is someone who sells fruit and vegetables. The picture on the website shows a sign on a market stall in the town of Ely in the east of England.You will also be able to see it on the screen of your iPod. It says, “Top quality hard English conferance pear’s”. ( “Conference pears” are a particular variety of pear that grows well in England – but have you noticed that the word “conference” is spelled wrongly?) And look, there is an apostrophe before the “s” in pears. There should, of course, be no apostrophe, because “pears” here is simply the plural of “pear” – it doesn’t mean “belonging to pear”, nor are there letters left out.
  The second bit of the notice says “3lb for 1.50”. What does “lb” mean? It means “pounds” – not pounds in money, but pounds in weight. In England, until recently, we measured the weight of things in pounds, and in America they still do. A pound is about half a kilo. When I was at school – many, many years ago – we had to learn that 16 ounces made a pound, 14 pounds made a stone, 8 stone made a hundredweight and 20 hundredweight made a ton. Yes, it was very complicated! And we had to learn about pints 4 and gallons for measuring liquids, and inches, feet and yards for measuring distances. Nowdays, children learn metric measurements at school, and since 1995 shops must use metric measurements for everything they sell. We only use the old imperial measurements for beer and milk (where people still measure in pints – a pint 3 is about half a litre), and for distances on roads, which are in miles – a mile is 1.6 kilometers. However, old people like me still think in the old measurements. If I cut a piece of wood, for example, I still measure it in inches and not in centimeters. When I bake a cake, I weigh the flour and sugar in ounces, not in grams. And the greengrocer in Ely market obviously finds all these modern kilos too difficult, so he or she still sells pears by the pound.

n.复数;复数形式;adj.复数的
  • Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
  • Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。
n.冒犯者( offender的名词复数 );犯规者;罪犯;妨害…的人(或事物)
  • Long prison sentences can be a very effective deterrent for offenders. 判处长期徒刑可对违法者起到强有力的威慑作用。
  • Purposeful work is an important part of the regime for young offenders. 使从事有意义的劳动是管理少年犯的重要方法。
n.品脱
  • I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
  • In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前,花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。
n.品脱( pint的名词复数 );一品脱啤酒
  • I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel. 我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Two pints today, please. 今天请来两品脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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'oney
acid nitrile
Alpha Blending
alternating current speed control
anterolateral fontanelle
antiestablishment,anti-Establishment
aspiration biopsy
barlin
barter trading
battering ram
biological fitness
biosemiotics
cahot
canard airplane
candy bar phone
capsine
carnal knowledge
carrier wave component
cell interconnection
cholest-7-enol
clamp loose
client/server
conscientius
corrugated square steel bar
Cumberfan
dietetic therapeutics
discounted account receivable
disilane disilicane
employment contracts
espec.
every so often
expansa
forging flow line
fratricidal
freedom-fighter
fuzzy query
gabbled
gadot
gang piece work system
gear axial plane
get next to oneself
gobiobotia cheni
gray(grey)matter
Hadad
Haydarābād
host platform
hydroxyapatite (hydroxylapatite)
ianni
ingninolabial
large general-purpose computing system
larkhill
lignosulfonate
liquid hole-up
localizer antenna
make a spectacle of yourself
malarrangement
medical monilias
Mischocarpus pentapetalus
monitorless
NOR function
O'Neill
object-object relation
Olivetan
oscillating shaft end
outgushes
overbeaten cloth
overdrive idler
parallel photography
party cell meeting
Pico de Teide, Pico de Teyde
Pidsterol
plagiocephalous
Pluvianus aegyptius
prelims
price per kilowatthour
propylmalonic acid
pseudophotoaffinity
put words into someone's mouth
Rajka
reading enriches the mind
remedial treatment
restrictus
salt plains
scale merit
seasir
secondary lineation
signalling key of push type
spongy particle
station-wagons
symmetrical scalar product
t'uan luan hsuan
trkb
Tulsi Das
unitary matrix
upper half-plane
vicarious authority
with time to spare
woodman
yeastliker
zeiss interferometer
zemana
zonal pricing