When was it built?
在博物馆里有许多模型汽车展出，现在有些古老的东西正在出售。上周她到北京出差去了，她的助理也正在休假。她下周可以带你转转。
2. They were all invented hundreds of years ago.
它们都是几百年前发明的。
Hundreds of… 意思是“数以百计的，成百上千的”。hundreds, thousand, million等词与of一起用时，表示不定量的数目，必须用复数形式，而且前面不能有具体的数字。例如：
He has received thousands of letters. Hundreds of people are still waiting for him.
他收到了成千上万封信。数以百计的人还在等他。
当hundred, thousand等用来表示具体的数字时，要用原形，表示“一百/千……”时其前常有基数词或“a”，后面直接跟所修饰的复数名词。例如：
three hundred / thousand people / students
三百人/学生 三千人/学生
five hundred goats / sheep
五百只山羊/ 绵羊
3. But I don’t know the way to the museum.
但是，我不知道去博物馆的路。
the way to… 意思是“去……地方的路“，关于问路的常用句式有：
(1) Could you tell me how I can get to…?
Would you tell me which is the way to…?
Could you tell me how to get to…?
Will you please show me the may to…?
请你告诉我到……怎么走好吗？
(2) Could you tell me where the school is?
Where is the school, please?
请你告诉我学校在哪儿？
当然问路的表示法还有很多，在此不可能全归纳出来。
4. Have you ever seen dinosaurs on display in museum?
你在博物馆里看过恐龙展览吗？
on display意思为“陈列，展出”。这是一个介词短语，在句中可作表语和定语。同义词组是on show。如：
Some of her paintings are on display / on show in the local art galley.
她的一些画正在本地的美术馆展出。
The things on show / on display were all a hundred years ago.
展览的物品都有上百年的历史了。
5. There you can see the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs.
在那里你能看到许多中恐龙的化石。
fossil意思为“化石”，是不可数名词；口语中还可指“守旧的人；落伍的人”。例如：
My grandpa doesn’t want to be an old fossil.
我爷爷可不愿做个落伍的人。
6. These eggs were found in the Gobi Desert by a group of scientists in the 1920s.
这些蛋是一群科学家于二十世纪二十年代在戈壁大沙漠发现的。
in the 1920s意思为“在二十世纪二十年代”。年代的表达法：在年份前加the，年份后加s。如：in the 1840s在十九世纪四十年代
7. So these eggs were laid long long ago by dinosaurs.
这些恐龙蛋是很久以前恐龙孵化的。
句中laid是动词lay（产卵）的过去分词。
— How many eggs does your hen lay every week?
— Her hen is laying well，about three every week..
— 你的母鸡每周产多少颗鸡蛋？
— 我的鸡正常下蛋，大约每周三个蛋。
注意区别以下几个动词，它们的原形，过去式，过去分词及现在分词。现将这三个词的四种形态列表如下：
原形 现在分词 过去式 过去分词
lay（摆放；产卵）laying laid laid
lie（躺） lying lay lain
lie（说谎） lying lied lied
(1) It’s ten o’clock now. Don’t lie in bed all morning.
都十点钟了，别一上午都躺在床上。
(2) She is an honest girl. She won’t lie to me. She has never lied to me.
她是个诚实的姑娘。她不会说谎的。她对我从来都没撒过谎。
8. That means dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared!
那就是说恐龙在人类出现之前就存在了。
appear不及物动词，意为“出现”，反义词是：disappear意思为“消失”。它们的名词形式分别是appearance和disappearance。如：
When we reached the top of the hill, the town appeared below us.
当我们到达山顶时，市镇就呈现在我们脚下。
Dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Scientists try to explain their disappearance.
恐龙大约在六千五百万年前就消失了。科学家试着解释它们消失的原因。
9. I say it is special because the dinosaur was covered with feathers!
我说它特别，是因为恐龙身上长有羽毛。
be covered with在句中意为“被……覆盖”，有时还用be covered by。例如：
The road was covered with yellow leaves. The fields were covered by flood. The ground was covered with the white snow.
道路曾被黄叶盖住了。洪水曾淹没了田地。大地曾覆盖着白雪。
另外，cover… with…为主动形式，意思为“用……覆盖”。例如：
The beautiful girl often covers h
《When was it built?(第6页)》
★读了本文的人也读了：