重点词汇词组：

Mrs March, the girls and Laurie¹ were sitting² together on a dull November afternoon³ when Hannah hurried into the room with a telegram⁴.

长难句分析

解：1主语+2谓语+3状语+4时间状语从句

析：本句中包含一个句型“...was/were doing...when sb. did”表示主句动作发生的过程中，另一个意想不到的动作突然发生了。此处的when不可以用while替换，因为while后通常用延续性动词，而hurried为非延续性动词。

1. dull 阴沉的；多云的

eg. The first day of our holiday was dull.

我们度假的第一天天空阴云密布。

【近义词】

cloudy，overcast

2. hurry 匆忙

eg. You'll have to hurry if you want to catch that train.

如果你想赶上那趟火车就得抓紧时间了。

【常见短语】

hurry (sb./sth.) up （使）加快，催促

eg. Could you hurry the children up, or their dinner will get cold.

你能不能去催催孩子们，要不他们的晚饭都凉了。

【近义词】

rush，hasten

3. drop （使）落下

eg. She dropped her keys.

她把钥匙掉了。

【常见短语】

①drop behind 落后，掉队

eg. She stopped going to classes and dropped behind in her schoolwork.

她不去上课，功课也就落了下来。

②drop out 退出；中断

eg. He dropped out of the race after two laps.

在跑了两圈后他退出了比赛。

③drop by/in/in on sb. 顺便拜访某人

eg. I dropped in on George on my way home from school.

在放学回家的路上我去看了一下乔治。

【相关俚语】

①be fit/ready to drop 快累趴下了

eg. I'd just walked ten miles and was ready to drop.

我刚走完10英里的路程，都快累趴下了。

②drop sb./sth. like a hot potato 立即摆脱，马上放弃

eg. He dropped the plan like a hot potato when he realized how much it would cost him.

当他意识到这个计划的代价后立即就放弃了这个烫手的山芋。

4. pick sth. up 拿起，捡起；学会

eg. He picked his cap up from the floor.

他从地板上拾起帽子。

【常见短语】

①pick sb. up 接（某人）

eg. Whose turn is it to pick the children up after school?

该谁去接孩子放学了？

②pick sb./sth. out 辨认出；认真挑选出

eg. See if you can pick me out in this photo.

看你能不能把我从这张照片上认出来。

【相关俚语】

①pick sb.'s brains 请教（某人）

eg. I was picking Simon's brains about which computer to buy.

我正请教西蒙该买哪种电脑。

②pick a fight/quarrel/argument 寻衅，找茬

eg. He'd had too much to drink and tried to pick a fight with the bartender.

他酒喝得太多了，想找酒吧侍者的茬。

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