A. Useful expressions:
1. fair adj. treating each person, side, etc. equally and according to the law,
rules, etc. antonym -- unfair
What you said is not fair to her.
2. design v. designer
His job was to design new machines.
3. to one's surprise/disappointment/joy/excitement
To everyone's surprise, Mr King refused.
Everyone was surprised that Mr King refused.
4. refuse = not accept
Mr King refused to take off his trousers.
5. at work -- at the place where one works 在工作的地方
If anyone at work discovers my secret, I shall lose my job.
If anyone who works in my company doscovers my secret,I shall be fired.
6. pretend ─ make oneself appear to be (doing) sth in order to deceive others
Mr King had to pretend to be a man in order to get a job.
She pretended not to see me.
7. call at a place *call on sb.
Mr Pattis called at the hospital after work.
*Mr Pattis called on Mr King at the hospital after work.
8. for a moment or two 一会儿
For a moment or two everyone was quiet.
9. look down upon/on sb. ─ consider sb/sth lower in quality, importance, rank,
etc. than oneself
The boss looked down upon women.
10. think of consider; 考虑 have the idea of 对谋事有见解, 想到
think about consider; 考虑 recall sb/sth 回想
That's because we never thought of it.
*They are thinking of/about moving to South America.
11. get a job with 后跟单位，如等， 解释为“成为该...的一员”
It seems that she lied in order to get a job with our company.
I hear that he is with YAHOO now.
B. Sentence patterns:
1. giving opinions 表达意见
I’m sure / think / guess / believe + that clause
It seems that …
In my opinion, …
2. have + object + doing doing 表示该动作有一种延续性, 或表示动作正在
进行。
But we have never had women working in this part of company before.
In harvest time we have our tractors working day and night.
收获时节, 我们让拖拉机不分昼夜一直开着。