《爱情与金钱》书虫读书笔记

入门级直接跳到 1 级，原因是只挑一些喜欢的书籍写笔记。

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Author：Rowena Akinyemi [英]

书名原文：Love or Money?

罗伊纳·阿金耶米是英国人，但在非洲度过了许多年。本书是她为英语学生写的第一部故事。

//搜不到作者详细信息，不过他的书虫作品挺多的，以下是 Kindle 美区中 Goodreads 社区的评论，类似豆瓣。

Rowena Akinyemi 

Born: The United Kingdom

Show: Rowena Akinyemi is British, and after many years in Africa, she now lives and works in Cambridge. She was worked in English Language Teaching for twenty years, in Africa and England, and has been writing ELT fiction for ten years. Love or money? Was her first story for the Oxford Bookworms Library, and she has now written several other stories for the series, including Remeber Miranda and The Witches of Pendle (both at Stage 1). She has also written books for children. One of her favourite pastimes is reading detective stories.

——From Goodreads

'Nothing's wrong,' Jackie said. 'Why are you telephoning? You are going to come this weekend? Mother wants everyone to be here.'

//are 在这里使用了斜体，一般是为了标注重点。Jackie 可能在电话中重读了这个单词， 想知道 Diane 打电话的目的：你是…打算这周回家？

// Jackie  文中翻译为杰基，小杰应该也行，不过音译与意译的区别，人名大多音译。

 She felt angry because her sister always asked for money. Diane was twenty years old, the youngest in the family. 

//自己二十二啦，还打游戏，伸手啃老，Jackie 做我姐姐能气死过去。

'She wants money for her train ticket.'  

Molly closed her eyes for a minute. 

//做过足球守门员，当球来到身边时，会不自觉闭眼，逃避痛苦。

' I'm very late. I am sorry,' Albert said.

//可以翻译为：我很… 抱歉。

//重读，加强语气。

//其实没一点抱歉的意思，不然也不会 Always late.，心虚而已，欲盖弥彰。

Molly closed her eyes for a minute. 'I know that, Albert. I am fifty years old, but I am always her "little" sister. Well, we can talk about it later.'

//在大部分父母眼里，儿女永远都是小孩子。在 Albert 眼里, Molly 永远是小妹，即使已经五十岁了，也是一样。

//Molly 第二次闭眼。

Diane laughed. 'It doesn't matter, Roger. I don't need your help. Mother always helps me. Mother loves me best.' She suddenly smiled, a quick, beautiful smile. But her eyes were cold.

//吓人的笑

'One day I'm going to kill that woman,' Diane said quietly.

Roger looked at Diane but said nothing. 

//极端的情绪

The window was open but the room was warm. 

//这一段描写是什么意思。

'No! You tell them! Nobody loved Mother. You aren't sorry. Look at you! You want her money. That's all.'

Roger suddenly wanted to hit Diane.

//"是你…去告诉他们", 黛安娜在这里已经慌到情绪失控了。 重读的 You 就可以看出此时所有麻烦都是别人的，自己准备两手一摊。

Roger did not move..he thought. 'I am happy about the money.'

//“我很…高兴有钱了。” 罗杰尽管很高兴，但在这里保持住了理智。

'Dr Pratt, I want to tell you about last night. Everyone was very angry...'

'Be quiet!' Roger said quickly.

//家丑不可外扬。

'Oh, no. Later. Let's see Jackie Clarkson next.'

//Inspector 自己饿了就找家里最年长的 Jackie，期望会招待他们一餐，真是个机灵鬼。

'No, Inspector. Money is not important to me. There are more important things,' Jackie said quietly.

//更重要的事就是书名：爱情

What a happy family the Clarksons were!

//Diane 抖出了所有糗事，让外人看笑话，对家人，对自己都是自暴自弃，不负责。

//在这里就可以看出罗杰当初让黛安娜安静一点的原因：说话心直口快，不动脑筋，很容易伤人，还显得黛安娜愚蠢。要想釜底抽薪的一次性解决这个毛病，单纯的只是不然人说话可不是好办法，因为总有管不住或者不在场的时候。要想有所改变，最关键的是要做好榜样，剩下的就看她自己好了。

'Tablets? Oh, yes. I remember. Jackie wanted me to get her mother's tablets from the village. I go to the village on my bicycle—this car doesn't work.'

//看到这里猜到一半谁是凶手。

Tom's face went red. 'Who? Oh! That's a friend. It's not... It was a long time ago.'

//看到这里猜出另一半。

'It doesn't matter now!' Diane said. 'Mother is dead and we have a lot of money. You don't need a job.'

Roger's face went red again. 'Be quiet, Diane!'

//整本书最精彩的部分，遍地鸡毛。

'No. We found the empty bottle in Diane's room. We told you that. You talked about Diane's bag;

//这就是 Inspector 审问的手段吗，高超。

'Well,' he said to Sergeant Foster, 'in the end, they got the money: Albert, Roger, Diane. They're all rich now. But are they going to be happy?'

//拥有了金钱，拥有了爱情，变得快乐了吗，变得幸福了吗。最后的落脚点放在了心想事成上，要是全部都要按照心里想的方式来，稍有不慎就会跌入不可挽回的深渊。还是理想与现实所冲突的问题。

Exercises

A Checking your understanding

Chapter 1 Which person in the chapter...

1 ... went into the kitchen to get a drink of water?

//Jackie

2 ... went to the doctor?

//Molly

3 ... has no money for the train ticket?

//Diane

4 ... made some sandwiches?

//Jackie

5 ... is very angry with Molly?

//Peter Hobbs

Chapter 2 Who said these words in the chapter?

1 'It's very difficult and very expensive, you know.'

//Albert 

2 'I want to go to America. Can you help me, Roger?'

//Diane

3 'It's a lot of work for you. The house is big, too. '

//Roger 

4 'Nobody is getting more money from me, not before I die!'

//Molly

5 'One day I'm going to kill that woman.'

//Diane

Chapter 3 Write answers to these questions.

1 Who brought Molly a cup of coffee?

//Diane

2 Who phoned the doctor?

//Diane Clarkson

3 When did Molly have a new bottle of tablets?

//Thursday 

4 Was Molly ill on Thursday?

//No, I don't think so. The reason one is Jackie's replies in Chapter 1. 

1: She's at the doctor's, Jackie answerd, Nothing is wrong.

and the reason two is the doctor Pratt's tells in Chapter 3. 

2: I don't know. Your mother wasn't ill. I saw her on Thursday and she was very well. Why did she die? I don't understand. I want to find out.

Chapter 4 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 Sergeant Foster usually played tennis on Sunday mornings.

//Personal opinion: True 

//He was not very happy this morning because he usually played tennis on Sunday mornings.

2 Molly got her sleeping tablets from a shop in Cambridge.

//Personal opinion: False

'Tell me, did your mother get her tablets from the shop in the village?'

'Yes…'

3 Jackie made hot milk and took it to Molly.

//Personal opinion: False

Diane made hot milk and took it to Mother.

4 Money was not important to Jackie.

//Personal opinion: False…

'No, Inspector. Money is not important to me. There are more important things,' Jackie said quietly.

Chapter 5 Find answers to these questions in the text.

1 Who wanted to build ten houses in the garden?

//Roger

Roger's face was suddenly afraid…A friend and I want to build ten houses here, in this garden.

2 What did the police find in Diane's room?

//The empty bottle of sleeping tablets

We found the empty bottle of sleeping tablets, Mr Clarkson, in Diane's room.

3 Who did Jackie love a long time ago?

//The gardener

He was the gardener. Jackie loved him very much, but Mother said no.

4 Who was in the kitchen on Saturday night?

//All the Clarksons, Peter Hobbs, Tom Briggs

All the family were in the kitchen last night. Peter Hobbs and Tom Briggs were there, too.

Chapter 6 Who said these words in the chapter?

1 'I lost my job, my first job, because of her.'

//Peter Hobbs

2 'Now tell me about the tablets.'

//Inspector Walsh

3 'I'm losing money on this farm and I need more land.'

//Tom Briggs

4 'It was a long time ago.'

//Tom Briggs

Chapter 7 How much can you remember? Check your answers.

1 Who visited Molly every month and took money from her?

//Diane

2 Where did the police find the empty bottle?

//bag

3 Where was Jackie's picture?

//Mr Briggs' house. 

4 Who loved Tom Briggs?

//Jackie

B Working with language

Use these words to join the two sentences together.

so　　and then　　because

1 Jackie felt angry. Her sister always asked for money.

//Jackie felt angry because her sister always asked for money.

2 Roger got out of bed. He opened the door quietly.

//Roger got out of bed and then he opened the door quietly.

3 Inspector Walsh always felt cold. He wore a coat.

//He wore a coat because Inspector Walsh always felt cold.

4 Diane opened the back door. She went out with the dogs.

//Diane opened the back door and then she went out with the dogs.

5 I'm losing money on this farm. I need more land.

//I'm losing money on this farm and then I need more land.

6 I don't need your help. Mother always helps me.

//I don't need your help because mother always helps me.

Put these sentences in the right order. Then check your order with chapter 3 .

1 Molly's arm was cold. She was dead.

2 Dr Pratt phoned the police.

3 Early next morning there was a cry from the room next to Roger's.

4 Roger went to tell Albert and Jackie about Molly... and about the police.

5 Diane phoned the doctor.

6 Dr Pratt went upstairs and looked at Molly's body.

//315624

C Activities

1 Write Inspector Walsh's diary for Sunday.

//What a terrible day, I could not go to cinema with my girlfriend. 

Today’s work is about the Clarksons. Somebody was murdered. 

Believe it or not, I knew the person who killed Molly, and let us see tomorrow.

2 Write about a person that you do not like in the story.

//破题。

REVIEW

爱情与金钱本来有一件就可以使人快乐、幸福，书中人物几乎全部得到了自己想要的，可是似乎没有一个人快乐。即便得到自己梦寐之物也未必快乐，又何必因为没有得到而独自伤悲。

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