[词汇]（6）

dinning room(hall)       饭厅

coin                     n. 硬币

mouth                    n. 嘴

swallow                  v. 吞下

later                    adv. 后来

toilet                   n. 厕所，盥洗室

★swallow   v. 吞下

① v. 吞下，咽下

Tommy had swallowed the coins.

② v. 抑制，使不流露

I tried hard to swallow my doubts.  我强忍着不露出怀疑的神色。

She swallowed a smile and sat there still.  她忍住没笑，静静地坐在那里。

③ v. 吞并；侵吞

Our company was swallowed up by an American company last year.

我们公司去年被一家美国公司吞并了。

Nazi Germany nearly swallowed up the whole Europe in World War II.

第二次世界大战中，纳粹德国几乎吞并了整个欧洲。

 [语法]

过去进行时

概念:

1、在过去某个特定的时间正在进行或发生的动作。

2、当过去的一个动作发生的时候另外一个动作正在进行。

结构：

主语+ was（were）+ doing

S+ wasn’t（weren’t) +Ving

Was（Were） +S +Ving?

I was reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday.

I wasn’t reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday.

Were you reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday?

What were you doing at 7 o’clock yesterday?

连接时间状语从句的词：when 当……的时候；while 当……的时候（强调两个动作的同时进行）

when和while大多数情况下可互换，当强调两个动作的同时进行和发生，只能用while。

just as 正当……

时间状语从句主句放前面，用连接词连接，时间状语从句放前面时，要用逗号隔开。

I was reading a book while my wife was working in the garden at two o’clock yesterday afternoon.

While my wife was working in the garden at two o’clock yesterday afternoon, I was reading a book.