Drop out of 辍学；退出
Talk things over 交谈，交流 keep lines of…保持渠道畅通
in peace and quiet：calmly; in a peaceful and silent state平静地
The man looked at his wife in peace and quiet when she was to leave for another country.
妻子就要出国，丈夫平静地看着她。
full of knots: full of puzzles 充满困惑，
e.g. We are still in the dark about the cause of the disease, with our minds full of knots.
a hard knot 难题 the Gordian knot 难办的事
the marriage knot 夫妻婚姻 a true-lover’s knot 同心结
knots in the mind 思想上的疙瘩 to cut the knot 快刀斩乱麻
make one’s blood boil: make one angry 使（某人）生气
他们在无辜的动物身上做实验的方式使我非常愤怒
It makes my blood boil the way they experiment on innocent animals.
4) knots in one’s stomach : feeling nervous, tense; unwell 不安
e.g. What’s the matter with her ? She seems to have the knots in her stomach.
她怎么啦，好像很不安似的。
to have an influence on sth/sb: 对某人/某事有影响
The development in computer science has had a great influence on the teaching of English.
计算机科学的发展已经对英语教学产生了重大的影响。
drop out of : leave (school) without finishing one’s studies 辍学；退出
由于国家经济的发展，因为经济原因辍学的学生数量逐年下降。
Thanks to the country’s development in economy, fewer students drop out of school for financial reasons every year. Stop Six Sentences Analysis 1. Anyway, you are right. (Line 38) 不管怎么说，你还是说得对。
Paraphrase: Regardless of what I have said, you are right. anyway: adv. anyhow; regardless of everything 1) Anyway_______, Sandy has her own reason for liking rock music.
不管怎么说,桑迪喜欢摇滚音乐有她的理由。
2) Really I wasn’t suited for the job, _________________.but I got it anyway 说实在的,我并不适合干这项工作, 可不管怎么样,我还是干上了。
2. Soon she’ll be dating and going out but I don’t want her wasting her time talking on the phone and watching TV.
(Line 46) 用不了多久，她就会去约会,会走出这个家,可我不想她老是打电话, 看电视, 浪费时间。 *she’ll be dating and going out 为将来进行时,此处带有“自然要发生”的含义. Henry will not be able to attend the meeting tonight because he______ a class.
A) must teach C) must be teaching D) will have been teaching
waste time (in) doing 浪费时间做······ waste…on 浪费······在······上
浪费时间去讨论这事怎么发生的是没有用的。
There is no use wasting time in discussing how it happened.
我不想把时间和金钱浪费在这么无益的事上。I don’t want to waste my time and money on such useless things. Step Seven Listening and RetellingYou are going to hear 3 sentences. Each will be read ten times. Write down the sentences according to the dictation.
1. Green Waves is a fictional name for a musical group made up by the writer for use in this story.
“绿浪”是作者在这个故事中使用的一个虚构的音乐组合名字。