新概念第二册课文重难点解析：第31课
1.Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company,but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时侯却在一家小铺里做工。
(1)head在此处的意思不是人或动物的“头部”，而是“首领”、“头目”，一般出现在“the head of +名词”结构中：\
John is the head of the family.
约翰是一家之主。
Frank is the head of that firm
弗兰克是那家公司的总裁。
(2)as在这里为介词，表不“当……时”，as a boy相当于 as he was a boy。
2.It was his job to repair bicycles…
他那时的工作是修理自行车……
it为“先行主语”，句子的真正主语为to repair bicycles。
3.He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his
own.
他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。
(1)for years表示“许多年”。
(2)of one's own为固定短语，表示“自己的”、“属于自己的”，own为代词：
He wanted a room of his own.
他想要一个自己的房间。
Do you have a house of your own?
你有自己的房子吗?
4.in one's twenties
(在某人)二十多岁的时候
one's
twenties/thirties/forties…，二十多岁/三十多岁/四十多岁……10的倍数的复数形式可用于表达近似的、非确定的数量，与所有格形容词(my等)连用时表示大约的年龄：
My aunt Jennifer is in her late thirties/early forties, but she often
appears on the stage as a young girl.
我的姑妈詹妮弗已接近四十岁/四十出头，但她却常在舞台上扮演小姑娘。
5.Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to
success.
弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路，微笑了。
(1)hard意思很多，在这里指“艰难的”、“困苦的”：
She lived a hard life in those years.
那些年她的生活很艰难。
(2)one's early years指某人的早年(生活)，意义相近的表达方式为early in one's life。
(3)the long road to
success是一种比喻的说法，因为success是抽象名词。to在这里表示方向、目的地，意义为“朝”、“往”、“向”等，这个短语的字面意义为“通向成功的漫漫长路”。
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