英语口语每天说008

　　Eight: Cause

　　1. They failed to go outing because of the weather.

　　2. He was late that’s a result of the snow.

　　3. The damage resulted from the fire.

　　4. I was in the bus with a result that I didn’t hear the telephone.

　　5. The new computer has more memory and is therefore faster than the old one.

　　6. We stayed at home because it rained.

　　7. Why didn’t you stop him?

　　8. Everybody likes him as he’s kind and honest.

　　9. Since you insist, I must go.

　　10. I can not see anything for the fog.

　　Dialogue One

　　Why didn’t you call me last night?

　　Because I went out.

　　Why didn’t you call me from a CallBox?

　　I didn’t have any change.

　　Tell me why you didn’t come to see me tonight then.

　　I don’t like all your questions. That’s why.

　　Dialogue Two

　　It’s over.

　　What is over?

　　Our relationship. I mean my friend and I…

　　Any reasons?

　　The cause is another boy.

　　Oh, that’s too bad.

　　Dialogue Three

　　John, I ’m sorry, the air tickets for the International Day are sold out.

　　Really? I didn’t expect that.

　　It’s possible because everyone wants to travel during the holiday weekend.

　　I should have booked the tickets in advance.

　　Take it easy. I’ll like you know if anyone decides to cancel his reservation¹.

　　That’s all right. Maybe I’ll change my plan. Thank you all the same.

　　Well, I think that these problems of teenagers getting into troubles with a law is mainly caused by unemployment². You see, because of the high level of the unemployment, so many teenagers nowadays leave school and find that they have no choice of getting a job. And this obviously³ makes them feel bored and frustrated⁴. And other result of this, they’re much likely to get drunk⁵ and so on. Another thing of cause is that you get groups of unemployed⁶ teenagers wondering around streets with nothing to do which can easily lead to trouble of one sort or another.

1 reservation   

n.保留条件，限制条件；预订座位

参考例句：

• The instruction should be carried out without any reservation.应当不折不扣地执行这个指示。
• I accept your statement without reservation.我完全相信你的话。

2 unemployment   

n.失业，失业状态

参考例句：

• The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.政府将研究如何降低失业率。
• He gave a talk on the theme of teenage unemployment.他就青少年失业的主题作了一次报告。

3 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

4 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 drunk   

adj.醉酒的；(喻)陶醉的；n.酗酒者，醉汉

参考例句：

• People who drives when they are drunk should be heavily penalised.醉酒驾车的人应受重罚。
• She found him drunk when she came home at night.她晚上回家时，经常发现他醉醺醺的。

6 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。