S2 - Lesson 15 - Good news

Words

 secret

secretary

 

nervous [紧张的]

nerve

irritable [易怒的]

 

 afford

can/be able to + afford + sth./to do sth.

The firm could not afford to pay such large salaries.

 

 interrupt

 

 

 

 

 

Content

 Good news

The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me. I felt very nervous when I went into his office.

He did not look up from his desk when I entered. After I had sat down, he said that business was very bad. He told me that the film could not afford to pay such large salaries. Twenty people had already left. I knew that my turn had come.

'Mr. Harmsworth,' I said in a weak voice.

'Don't interrupt,' he said.

Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!

 

 

 

 

直接引语 变 间接引语

宾语从句

he says, 'I am a fool.'

he says that he is a fool.

 

he said, 'I will go to Italy.'

he said that he would go to Italy.