The end of a dream
Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress. Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculouslyunhurt. When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.
【课文翻译】
德黑兰的一个年轻人由于对睡地板感到厌倦, 于是积蓄多年买了一张真正的床. 他平生第一次自豪地拥有了一张既有弹簧又带床垫的床. 由于天气很热, 他便把床搬到了他的屋顶上. 头两天晚上, 他睡得非常好. 但第三天晚上起了风暴. 一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来, 把它摔碎在下面的院子里. 那年轻人直到床撞到地上才醒了过来. 尽管床摔成了碎片, 但年轻人却奇迹般地没有受伤. 他醒来时, 仍然躺在床垫上. 年轻人看了一眼周围的碎木片和碎金属片, 伤心地捡起了床垫, 把它拿进了屋. 他把床垫往地板上一放, 很快又睡着了.
【生词汇总】
spring n.弹簧
mattress n.床垫
gust n.一阵狂风
sweep v.扫，刮
courtyard n.院子
smash v.碰碎，摔碎
miraculous adj.奇迹般的
glance v.扫视
promptly adv.迅速地
【短语汇总】
be tired of厌倦，苦于，受够了，如：I am tired of your lies.我受够了你的谎言。
save up攒，存(钱)
for the first time第一次，首次
pick up捡起来，接走(某人)，如：my father will pick me up today. 今天我爸爸回来接我的。
【知识点讲解】
1 Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed.
德黑兰的一个年轻人由于对睡地板感到厌倦, 于是积蓄多年买了一张真正的床.
(1)tired adj. 辛苦的，厌倦的
这个词由名词tire变化而来。tire是轮胎的意思，如“spare-tire”就是我们常见的“备胎”。轮胎一直转，是汽车磨损最快的一个部件，所以它对应的形容词自然就是“劳累的”“辛苦的”的意思
I strongly advised my boss to hire a "spare-tire", because I am so tired. But he refused.
我强烈建议我们的老板再招一个人，我实在是太累了。但是他拒绝了。
(2)Teheran
伊朗首都德黑兰。世界上各个国家的首都记忆是一项很重要的工作，应按照区域记忆。如，中东区域的几个国家(尤其是新闻中经常涉及的)放在一起进行记忆，效果事半功倍。
(3)for+时间段的时间状语
一般我们讲这样的时间状语对应的是完成时且只能对应完成时，但是在新概念中经常会涉及到这样的情况：save up“存款”这样一个概念是没必要强调其时态是完成时的，存款本身意思上就不可能是瞬间，只可能放在时间段内。
时间段类时间状语包括：since+时间点，for+时间段，from…to…这样三个
2 he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress
他平生第一次自豪地拥有了一张既有弹簧又带床垫的床.
专讲定语从句中which这样一个连接词的用法。当定语从句中的先行词(也就是我们常讲的“被定词”)是一个非人的东西的时候，我们常用which 和that作为其后的衔接词。只用which的情况包括两种：衔接词前有介词，如“in which”“within which”等;衔接词前有“，”。
3 The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground.
那年轻人直到床撞到地上才醒了过来
not…until和not…unless类似，都是主句否定，后句采用这两个词，所以要注意not一词的添加;如果没有not，until用when代替，如果没有not，unless用if代替。
