新概念英语第三册 Lesson 40(课文5)

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9.Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.
背诵句型
Pretending to 假装做...
make a telephone call   打个电话
10. Permission was granted and a policeman accompanied him to a pay phone.
背诵句型
11.Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.
Only when 直到...才... Only 为副词,起强调作用.  只有当Only +状语 这样的结构在句首时,句子(或主句) 的谓语部分才需要使用倒装的语序.
Ex
Only if you've been through such agony will you believe it.
From a scientific point of view, work is done only when the applied force produces motion.