华尔街高级英语Lesson 22

Miss Annie Peters
26 Chernobyl Avenue
42232 Washdon
GREAT BRITICA Tokyo, Japan       12 March
Dear Annie,
I know this will come as an enormous¹ surprise to you, I hope it will be a pleasant rather than an unpleasant² one. As you can see. I didn’t die in Trinidad although I came very close to it, and I have taken the opportunity during these past few years to look at my life and what really matters to me.
I have realized, Annie, that my only purpose in life for as long as I can remember has been to make money as much as possible and as quickly as possible paying no attention to my relationships with other people
This is why your mother left me and this was why I was on the point of losing contact with both you and David.
I want you to understand first of all that I have decided³ to change. Annie because I have realized how much I really care about you and David.
For various obvious reasons, I can’t tell you in this letter how to get in touch with me but I’ll try and get a personal message to you or David in the next couple of weeks.
You will easily understand that I may not be able to come to Washdon myself, but I hope we can meet somewhere not too far away. I’m sure you have hundreds of questions to ask me. I look forward to answering them more than I can tell you in words.

Your loving father,
Hugo

1 enormous   

adj.巨大的；庞大的

参考例句：

• An enormous sum of money is injected each year into teaching.每年都有大量资金投入到教学中。
• They wield enormous political power.他们行使巨大的政治权力。

2 unpleasant   

adj.使人不愉快的，使人厌恶的，煞风景的

参考例句：

• A very unpleasant thing has happened.一件令人很不愉快的事发生了。
• The kind advices are often unpleasant to the ear.好言常常不入耳。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。