At the age of eight, be joined a group of child dancers, and at seventeen he set off for the USA with a group of comedy actors. 8岁时,他参加了儿童舞剧团;17岁时,他跟一些喜剧演员去了美国。
1) 年龄表达方式:
He was a boy of sixteen.
When he was sixteen, he went to college.
By the time he was ten, he had built himself a chemistry lab. 十岁时,他已建成了自己的化学实验室。
At (the age of ) twelve he began to sell newspapers on the train. 十二岁时,他开始在火车上卖报。
When he was in his early / middle / late thirties, he began to learn Russian. 他三十出头/三十五六/年近四十时开始学俄语。
2) set off = set out, start, leave动身,出发;类似的表达有:
start for A 动身前往A地 leave B for A 离开B地前往A地
set out for A出发前往 A地 set off for A 动身前往 A地
sail for A 起航前往 A地 head for A 向 A地进发
make way for A向A地移动
以set为中心构成的常见短语还有:
set about着手做,set up 搭起,建起,set sb. free释放, set out 出发;着手,set an example to sb. 给……树立榜样, set fire to 放火
3) child儿童舞蹈员child名词作定语,修饰另一个名词时须用单数。如:two book stores 两家书店 three shoe shops三家鞋店 their boy friends 他们的男性朋友
注意:two men doctors 两位男医生 three women teachers 三名女教师
As early as his second film, Chaplin had developed his own manner of acting, the one that was too become world famous. 早在他拍第二部影片时,卓别林就形成了自己的表演风格,就是闻名于世的那种风格。
1) his own manner of acting = his own acting style他自己的表演风格.
manner (n.) 指文艺上的“风格”或“手法”。
2) the one是不定代词,在句中作his own manner of acting的同位语,而that引导的从句是定语从句,修饰the one.
3) was too become 意为“就要成为”。这种由[be+动词不定式]的结构相当于be going to do sth., 常用来表示“按