Key content points:
What are the selling points of the man seeking marriage partner?
How was the response to his ad?
What is each of the three girls like in terms of looks, education, personality etc.?
What does girl A like? What can she offer to the man?
What does girl B like? According to her, how is she a good match for him?
What can girl C do? In what ways is she mysterious?
Which of the three girls do you think the man picked? Or none of them?
Key language points:
1. long modifiers before a noun and their English equivalents:
找一位家住本市,会社交,长得较好,24 岁到30岁,具有高中以上文化水平,能作秘书
工作的姑娘。
find a girl that 。。。。
2. 是 [emphasic element] + verb + 的:
是优越的经济条件吸引我来应征的;房子是借钱盖的。
3. emphatic uses of 就(是) and (才):
才过了三天,就收到了四百封信。
来大上海找伴侣就是一种冒险。这就是我要追求的。
4. emphatic repetition:
非常非常想见到你;平平淡淡地度过一生,
5. measure words:
一则启事,一则广告;一封信,一封电报,一份报纸,一位姑娘
6. style of language in ads and telegrams
a. cryptic. 某男,
b. omission of subject. 14日晚7时咖啡馆等。
c. written style/formality 本市,为伴侣,余,未,
7. 着 for state and process:写着,接着,回答着,
8. Intensifiers: 非常,十分,
9. Literary elements: 与,寻找,具有,日,时,未,为,余,所,
10. Dispensible 所 (remnant of classical Chinese):有所作为,所学到的知识,(vs. 所用非
所学)
11. In terms of/with respect to: 上,方面:企业管理方面的问题,事业上有作为,
12. In the midst of: 正在:正在热恋中,正在感到奇怪的时候,正在上电大学,
13. Different pronunciation/meanings:
应该,应征,答应,
因为,为什么,作为,为伴侣,
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