情人节送礼三大件:cards, flowers and chocolates,记得卡片的落款要写from your Valentine,巧克力要送包装精美的名牌货,花儿要新鲜,尤其要注意是千万别送错了颜色:
People often give roses to the people they love, but different colors have different meanings. For example, white roses are a symbol(象征) of innocence(纯真). Red roses mean deep love, and pink roses are for happiness. As for yellow roses, they mean envy(嫉妒).
希望大家都有个浪漫的情人节,Happy Valentines Day!
「读书笔记」
St.是Saint的缩写,放在名字前表示圣,比如St. George is the Patron Saint of England. 圣乔治是英格兰的守护神。同时,saint作为一个名字还表示圣徒,虔诚的人,天使,比如:You would need to be a saint to put up with(容忍) her children. 只有圣人才能容忍她的那几个孩子。
St. Valentine是一个神父,什么样的神父呢? 后面由who引导的定于从句告诉我们:who helped marry young lovers in secret.他帮忙给年轻的恋人们证婚,这里的in secret意思就是secretly(秘密地),现在按照中国人的语序把它翻译出来就是:St. Valentine是个秘密位年轻恋人主持婚礼的神父。
Caught是catch的过去分词,put是现在时、过去时、过去分词同形,你一定看出来了,第二段的第一句用的是被动语态,动作有两个,be caught和be put in jail(被抓和被送进监狱),用and连接,省略了一个be.
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