NEC3 L2 Thirteen equals one

Grammar

非谓语动词做状语

非谓语(doing, done, to do)作状语时，一般情况下其隐含的主语应该与主句保持一致。

非谓语动词做状语可以还原为状语从句

• Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock,...
• When he looked at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock.

Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower...

• arm sb. with sth.
  • 用。。。把某人装备起来
• Carrying a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower...

介词后必有宾语

You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well as me.

形容词补足语从句

• 三大从句之外
• Still, I'm glad (that) the bell is working again.
• ..., but I'm afraid (that) at one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there is nothing I can do about it.

Given words

Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired.

• be always doing sth.
  • He is always being late
  • People are always talking about the problems of youth.
  • 总是做sht.（带有厌烦的语气和情感）
    • be forever doing sth.
      • He is forever talking about the friendly people, the clean atmosphere, the closeness to nature and gentle pave of living.
    • be constantly / continually doing sth.
      • The boys are constantly / continually doing arguing.
    • keep (on) doing sth.
      • From the moment he arrived there, he kept on pestering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home.
      • In the process, he enjoyed himself thoroughly and kept telling everybody how much he hated hospitals.
    • do sth. all the time
      • ask my friends to wait on me all the time
        • 让我的朋友总为我服务
      • wait on
        • 为sb服务
        • waiter
• cause
• one... or anther
  • 这样或那样
  • My little daughter is always complaining of one illness or another, but she has never managed to get permission to be at home.
• have sth. done
  • 请某人做某事
    • 请的人未知或者不必说
    • I'm going to have my hair cut this weekend.
  • 某种糟糕的经历
    • ... people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
    • King Charles I had his head cut off.
    • The house had its window broken in the explosion.

used to do

• 过去常做
  • I used to get up early.
• be/ become/ get used to n./ doing
  • 习惯（变得习惯）于做
  • 'We'll get used to that, Bill,' said the vicar.
  • Life is not fair, get used to it. --Bill Gates
• be accustomed to (doing) sth
  • For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have been very hard indeed.

strike the hours

• It would strike twelve in twenty minutes.

ever since: adv. / prep. / conj. 

• 从那时以后，一直......（用完成时）
• adv.
  • The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
  • Lao Wang who used to work hard day and night was laid off two years ago and has been lazy ever since.
• prep.+n
  • There are countless people who, ever since their early years, have learned to associate snails with food.
• conj.
  • You know how she feels about you. It's been the same way ever since we were kids.

My little daughter is always complaining of one illness or another, but she has never managed to get permission to be at home.
结构分析：
1. 总是做某事：be always doing sth;
2. 各种各样的病：one illness or another;
3. 成功做某事：manage to do sth;
4. 本句为转折并列句，用but来连接。

Lao Wang who used to work hard day and night was laid off two years ago and has been lazy ever since.
结构分析：
1. used to do 过去经常做某事；
2. day and night 日以继夜；
3. ever since 从此以后；
4. 主句：Lao Wang was laid off two years ago and has been lazy ever since. 定语从句：who used to work hard day and night 修饰老王。

I know (that) you are not satisfied, but I'm afraid (that) there's nothing I can do about it.
结构分析：
本句是用but连接的转折并列句；(that) you are not satisfied 为I know的宾语从句；(that) there's nothing I can do about it 为 I'm afraid的形容词补足语从句。