第一， 迷你对话

A: Anything wrong with Tom?

Tom有什么不对劲吗？

B: Why do you ask?

为什么这么说啊？

A: I saw him sign once or twice and then he went away without a word.

我看见他叹了几次气，没说一句话就走了。

B: What had happened? Let me think.

发生什么事情了？我想想。

A: Is there anything we can do to help him?

我可以帮助他什么呢？

B: Let’s call him out, OK?

我们把她约出来，好吗？

A: Right.

好啊。

第二， 地道表达

once or twice

1. 解词释义

One or twice的意思是“有几次”“一两次”。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. Whom I think you've met once or twice before.

我想你以前见过他一两次面。

e.g. Once or twice she looked over her shoulder at me.

有一两次她回头看看我。

e.g. She looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her.

她回头看了一两次，希望他们还会叫她回去。

e.g. We stumbled once or twice but we got there quite quickly.

我们绊了一两跤，但很快就到了那儿。

第三， 咬文嚼字

go away ：离开

e.g. It makes me sad to hear that you have to go away.

听说你一定要走，我很难过。

e.g. Maybe if I'm polite to him, agree with him, he'll go away.

也许我随和点，敷衍他两句，他就会走开了吧。

without a word：一言不发

e.g. Tom swept up the broken glass without a word of reproof to his son.

汤姆把碎玻璃扫乾净, 没说一句责备儿子的话。

e.g. He walked straight by without a word or without even raising his hat.

他照直走了过去，一句话也不说，甚至也没有举帽致敬。