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、迷你对话 A: I was just about to go to bed when the telephone rang last night. 昨晚我正要上床睡觉，电话铃响了。 B: Who was it? 是谁打来的？ A: Kate. She said she was too excited to go to sleep. 凯特，她说她自己兴奋得睡不着。 B: She never cares about others. 她从不替别人着想。 A: It’s true. Guess what we were talking about last night. 是呀，你猜我们昨晚在说什么。 B: Her new boyfriend, right? 她的新男友，对吧？ A: Yeah, how do you know about that? 是的，你怎么知道呢？ B: I was also interrupted by her last week because of such a thing. 她是因为此事上周也打搅过我。 第二、地道核心表达 【核心短语】be about to 【解词释义】此语的意思是“刚要，即将”。有时候be可以用seem来代替。此语的否定形式not be about to do something则是强调“无意做某事”。 【典型例句1】 He was about to speak.Again he bottled himself up. 他想说话又忍住了。 【典型例句2】I had an intuition that something awful was about to happen. 我直觉感到要出乱子了。 【典型例句3】 His company was about to fail, but the bank saw him through. 他的公司几乎破产, 但银行帮他渡过了难关。 【典型例句4】 He called at an inopportune moment, when we were about to go out. 他来得真不是时候，我们正准备外出。 第二、词海拾贝 care about：担心.......，关心...... 【典型例句1】A selfish person does not care about other peoples problem. 自私的人是不关心别人的困难的。 【典型例句2】 You say you care about the poor, but you dont help them. You hypocrite! 你说你关怀穷人, 可你并不帮助他们, 你这伪君子! 【典型例句3】 I dont care about what you think; save your breath to cool your porridge! 我不在乎你怎么想, 你省点力气,别白费口舌了! 【典型例句4】The capitalists only care about the accumulation of wealth. 资本家只顾积累财富。 know about：知道，了解......的情况 【典型例句1】 Keep quiet, we dont want the whole world to know about it. 安静些，我们可不想让人人都知道这件事。 【典型例句2】Now I want to know about this thing from beginning to end. 我现在想源源本本地了解此事。 talk about：谈论...... 【典型例句1】 He delights to talk about his family in the office. 他喜欢在办公室谈论他家里的事。 【典型例句2】 The class separated into several smaller groups to talk about the subject. 这个班的学生分成了几个小组讨论这个问题。 第三、 句海拾贝 【句型模板】Somebody is too+adj.+to do something. 【指点迷津】too...to是太........而不能......。 【句型操练】I am too tired to hit a shower. 我太累了，连洗澡都没力气了。