PETS二级考试语法复习精讲（58）
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Time for high tea.
Anne: It's 4 o'clock, time for high tea.
Elisabeth: So early? Six o'clock or thereabouts is high tea time.
Anne: What? Tea, sandwiches and cakes at 6 o'clock? That's surely far too late.
Elisabeth: No, no. I think you're mixing up high tea and afternoon tea.
Anne: Aren't they the same?
Elisabeth: No, not at all. Afternoon tea means tea, perhaps sandwiches and definitely cakes around 4.
Anne: What's high tea, then?
Elisabeth: That's a proper meal, often with meat or fish, but also of course with tea to drink.
安：四点钟了,是傍晚茶时间了。
伊莉萨白：这么早?六点钟左右才是吃傍晚茶时间。
安：什么? 六点钟吃茶、三明治和蛋糕?那太晚了。
伊莉萨白：不对,不对,你一定是把傍晚茶和下午茶混为一谈了。
安：傍晚茶、下午茶不是一样的吗?
伊莉萨白：不一样,完全不一样, 下午茶是指四点钟左右喝茶,也许还有三明治,蛋糕则一定有。
安：傍晚茶又怎样?
伊莉萨白：傍晚茶是正餐,一般有鱼或肉,当然也有茶喝。
伊莉萨白说: Six o'clock or thereabouts is high tea time.读者请勿见tea字就以为high tea只是简单茶点。High tea其实是把下午茶（afternoon tea）和晚餐（dinner）合而为一的正餐,一般有鱼或肉、牛油面包或蛋糕,茶则当然不可缺。这傍晚茶通常是五六点钟吃的。We had high tea at half past five, and then we had a bedtime snack. 即'我们五点半吃傍晚茶,睡前再吃了些点心'.下午茶和晚餐合而为一的叫high tea,早午餐合而为一的则叫brunch,以breakfast（早餐） 、 lunch（午餐）两字合成,例如:Brunch is served at 11:00am in the hotel（旅馆上午十一时供应早午餐）。
Six o'clock or thereabouts一语,可以改作six o'clock or so.Or so和or thereabouts都有'大约'、'左右'的意思,但只用于数字, or thereabouts则可用于数字或地方,例如: （1）I will be away for two weeks or so / or thereabouts（我会离开两个星期左右） .（2）The child was last seen at the bus terminal or thereabouts（最后一次有人看到,是那孩子在巴士终点站或终点附近）。第二句的or thereabouts不可用or so取代。Thereabouts 也作thereabout. 和thereabout（s）相近的字,有hereabout（s）（在这里附近）和whereabouts（大概在哪里?）这两字都限于说地方, 例如: （1）I lost my wallet hereabouts（我在这里附近丢了钱包） .（2） Whereabouts are we?（我们大约在哪里?） [NextPage] I didn't know it showed documentaries.
Giles: Have you seen the movie Fahrenheit 9/11?
Tony: No, what is it, a science fiction adventure?
Giles: No it's a documentary about American politics after the World Trade Center tragedy in September 2001.
Tony: Did you see it on television?
Giles: No, at our local movie theater. It's been on all this week.
Tony: I didn't know it showed documentaries.
Giles: It doesn't normally, but there has been huge demand to see this one.
贾尔斯: 你有没有看过《华氏九一一》这部电影？
东尼：没有。那是什么样的电影，是科幻历险之类吗？
贾尔斯：不是，那是部纪录片，讲二○○一年九月世界贸易中心悲剧之后的美国政治。
东尼：你是在电视上看的吗？
贾尔斯：不是，是在我们城里的电影院。电影已放映了整个星期。
东尼：我不知道这家电影院会放映纪录片。
贾尔斯：一般不会，但这部电影很多人都想看。
'纪录片'英文叫documentary movie/film或documentary，例如'战争纪录片'是war documentary，'野生动植物纪录片'是wildlife documentary等。此外还有fly-on-the-wall documentary.A fly on the wall直译是'墙上一只苍蝇'，常用来比喻'悄悄在旁观察的人'，例如：I would like to be a fly on the wall at their closed-door meeting（他们举行闭门会议，我真想变成苍蝇，在墙上观看）。
A fly-on-the-wall documentary是人物纪录片，片中人物不知道或不理会自己是在镜头之下，作息一如日常，例如：He made a fly-on-the-wall documentary on/about the everyday life of the retired president（他拍了一部纪录片，照实纪录那个退休总统的日常生活）。
留意纪录片的主题可用on或about带出。读者大概都知道document作名词，可解作'文件'；但这个字其实还可作动词，指用文字、电影等写实纪录，例如：The photographer spent two whole days documenting the everyday life of the retired president from a fly-on-the-wall angle（那摄影师花了整整两天，照实纪录那个退休总统的日常生活）。贾尔斯说《华氏九一一》放映已有一个星期：It's been on all this week.On是指电影、戏剧等上映或上演，come off则是放映期结束，例如：" I think there's a cops and robbers film on at the cinema." " Oh, no, it has come off."（'似乎有一部警匪片在上映。''啊，没有，放映已经结束了。'）
