DOING THE GARDENING   做园艺

Jacl, Paula, jenny 三个人在园艺用品店买了很多东西。现在大家要开始做园艺了。

Paula  What does that do, Jenny?

Jenny  It makes the flowers grow more quickly.

Paula  Oh.

Jack  Jenny, let me borrow your gloves for a moment, please.

Jenny  Sure. Paula, can you do me a favour? Take these gloves to your father, please.

Paula:  OK.

Jenny  Thank you.

Paula  What are you doing, Daddy?

Jack   I’m planting grass seed, to make the lawn bigger.

Paula  How long does it take to grow?

Jack   It takes just a few weeks, but it takes years to make a good lawn.

Jenny  Jack, let’s make an arch here.

Jack   Do you think we have time to do that?

Jenny  Why not?

Paula  What do we have to do?

Jenny  Well, if I bend this over, it should make an arch. Then, I’ll plant a rose bush here. And we’ll see if we can make the roses grow over the arch.

Paula  That soumds great.

Jenny  Oh, no. It’s fallen over.

Jack   let em help you. Paula, would you get me my hammer and some nails from the shed, please?

Paula  Sure.

（响亮的雷声）

Jack   Oh, no! When thought about a nice Engliash garden, we forgot about the not- so-nice Engliash weather!

Jenny  never mind. Let’s go in and have a nice English cup of tea!

*gloves  n. 手套    *seed 种子      *arch  n.拱门，拱形门      *rose bush玫瑰花丛      *snail 铁锤，榔头    

*nail  n. 钉子      *shed  n.小库房

 

                                  学习重点

‘let’, ‘have’, ‘come’ and ‘go’     let, have, come和go         ‘make’ and ‘do’                make和do

 

‘let’, ‘have’, ‘come’ and ‘go’    let ,have, come和go

1．    let + 直接宾语+ 动词不定式（不带to）

I don’t want to let Peter borrow my car. 我不想让彼特借我的车。

Let’s go to the cinema.我们去看电影吧。

Let me see. 让我看看。

2．    let + 动词不定式(不带to)

My philosophy is‘live’ and let live.’. 我的人生哲学是“相互关爱”。

I must open this door. Please let go. 我必须打开这扇门。请松开手。

The woman let fly a torrent of abuse at him. 这个女人冲着他就是一顿谩骂。

第二种句子构成只限于几个固定的惯用句型中。请不要使用这个句子结构来擅自编造新的表达方法。