时间:2019-03-01 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   Today we will learn something about the word “arrive”. I will tell you when to say “arrive at” and when to say “arrive in”. And I will also tell you that you must never say “arrive to”!


  Kevin and Joanne are going to visit their friend Amy, who lives in Glasgow , the largest city in Scotland. They arrange when they will come, but then need to decide how to travel. Kevin does not want to drive. It is a long way, and there are roadworks on the M6 motorway 1 which will cause delay, frustration 2 and bad temper. (There are always roadworks on the M6 – it is part of the traditional British way of life).
  So they decide to take the train. Now, in Britain train fares are often very expensive unless you buy your tickets at least a week before you travel. Kevin is lucky – he finds some cheap tickets on the internet.
  On Friday, Kevin and Joanne set off; they take a bus and arrive at the railway station. Miraculously 3 their train is on time. Four hours later they arrive in Glasgow. They take a taxi and arrive at Amy’s flat at about 4pm.
  On the way home they are not so lucky. When they arrive at Glasgow Central station, they find that their train is late. Moreover, one of the carriages is missing, so the train is overcrowded and some passengers have to stand for their journey. The train arrives in Birmingham, at New Street Station, about an hour late.
  The rule with “arrive” is this. If we are talking about a big place – a country or a town for instance – then we say arrive in. For example:
  Kevin and Joanne arrive in Scotland
  They arrive in Glasgow
  They arrive back in Birmingham
  But when we are talking about a small place, an individual house or building, for example, we say arrive at. For example:
  Kevin and Joanne arrive at the railway station
  They arrive at Amy’s flat
  They arrive at the airport
  Kevin arrives at work
  The children arrive at school
  Some English learners say “arrive to”. For example, “I arrive to Paris tomorrow”. This is wrong. You should say “I arrive in Paris tomorrow” (“Arrive in” because Paris is a big place).
  You will sometimes hear people say “I arrived at Birmingham at 3pm” or “I arrive at Paris in the afternoon”. Is this OK? Surely they should say “in Birmingham” and “in Paris”? Well, it is OK if they are saying “Birmingham” to mean “Birmingham railway station” or “Paris” to mean “Paris airport”.
  I know that this is complicated. But do not despair. Remember that you can use get to instead of “arrive in / at”. Kevin and Joanne get to the railway station, they get to Glasgow, they get to Amy’s flat, they get to the airport, Kevin gets to work, the children get to school. It is always “get to”. Easy. English people use expressions with “get” all the time, so it is a good idea to practice using them.
  Trains in Britain are often overcrowded, but not generally as overcrowded as the one in the picture above.

n.高速公路,快车道
  • Our car had a breakdown on the motorway.我们的汽车在高速公路上抛锚了。
  • A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.一个疯狂的司机以每小时110英里的速度在高速公路上逆行飙车35英里。
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
ad.奇迹般地
  • He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。
  • A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。
学英语单词
aeger
amatriciana
anne mansfield sullivans
banked radiators
beat the streets
biosy of brain tissue
bluenose
Burkitt('s) tumour
C.-E. mixture
car yard
cash a cheque
chilled wheel
clock circuit
coastwaiter
cognitive limits
conly
cyclic terrace
Damyangho
deep incised wound
diabetic neuropathy
dichroic layer
discretional order
dysoxidative carbonuria
eating shit
echinid
Euro-dollar deposits
fair employment practices
fat mass
five-tire car
fixed brush type motor
foistiness
fold filament
foramina papillaria renis
forcefield
frequency exchanger
frontings
fund management company
funiculuss
gas station
get your teeth into something
have only self to thank
hear, hear
high speed level recorder
incoherent analogy modulation
indapamides
insecure work
integrated tool
janty
jet head
knock test
lanthanum complex
Lib-Labbery
make head or tail of
manganese (ortho)silicate
manure and slurry cleaning equipment
mckeller
measurement of elevation
metrology grating
muskie
n.r.a.d.
nai (iran)
nar-mer
nonrapist
nonsensitized
organic polymer
oropesa sweep
out-citizen
over-the-hill
palaelodid
pan-ice(floe-ice)
peytrel
pin point colony
play the angel
plexus venosus vaginalis
plutonic intrusive facies
Popish Plot
pre-breeding
propedeuse
quadrature amplifier
radial development
response spectrum envelope
separate function
slipper plant
slop up
solar system meteor
split heating
stannic nitride
stationary medium
stripper clip
structural geology and tectonics
substenance
Thabaung
thirty-eighth
tourn
trading dividends
transformation of electricity
uroanthelone
USB ports
Virgilia oroboides
weak-tea
wedges method
welshnut