A Day to Remember 难忘的一天

We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!

10. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。

语言点:句子结构分析:as if引导方式状语从句，请特别注意，这里用were是因为这句话是虚拟语气。Unexpectedly bringing…dinner是现在分词短语，作伴随状语。

11. Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.

就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。

语言点1:句子结构分析:as是关系代词，引导定语从句。

语言点2:on a large scale表示“大规模地”。

12. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.

一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。

语言点1:句子结构分析:during the rush hour one evening充当时间状语。

语言点2:请特别注意，collide表达的“撞”一般为双方相互作用，而不是一方静止另一方撞击。