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| 第5輯 第14課 Something has come up that I have to talk to you about. |
| 在現代商業社會裡，有一個不成文的規定，如果你想和人家洽談 業務的話，一定要先做好預約。不可以直接貿然跑過去，這是很沒禮貌的事情，但是如果你是那種很不小心的人，不想再來一趟的話，你可以跟他 說："Something has come up that I have to talk to you about."「有一些緊急的事件我非跟你談一談不可。」 |
| 對話 A：May I help you? 甲：有甚麼可以幫你的﹖ B：I´d like to see Mr. Brown. My name is Mr. Smith. 乙：我想見布朗先生，我叫史密夫。 A：Do you have an appointment? 甲：你有預約嗎﹖ B：No, I don´t, but I have some very important business to talk about. 乙：沒有，但我有一些很重要的事情要跟他說。 A：Just a moment. Mr. Brown, Mr. Smith wants to talk to you on the phone. 甲：請等一下。布朗先生，史密夫先生要跟你通電話。 B：Thank you. Mr. Brown, something has come up that I have to talk to you about. Thanks. 乙：謝謝。布朗先生，發生了一些事情，我一定要跟你談一談。 剛才我們教了大家："Something has come up that I have to talk to you about."這個"Something"千萬要記住，一定是非常緊急的事件，是突發而且重要，你才可以這麼講。否則你如果騙人，到時把人開罪了我可不負 責！ |
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| 關係代名詞 Something has come up that I have to talk to you about. 是「有事發生了，得跟你談談。」這句話本身就值得談談。 Come up是動詞片語 (phrasal verb)，有多種意思。其一是「發生」，例如Problems are bound to come up. 即「問題一定會出現」。Something has come up that I have to talk to you about. 是較隨便的口語，嚴謹的寫法是Something has come up, about which I have to talk to you. 這是甚麼句式？按that、which都是關係代名詞 (relative pronoun)，可以把兩個獨立句子接連或「關係」(relate)起來，作用有如「連接詞 (conjunction，例如and、but) + 代名詞（pronoun，例如it）」。譬如說：Something has come up. I have to talk to you about it. 這兩句用and連接起來，就是Something has come up, and I have to talk to you about it. 用which或that連接起來，and和it字就都不用了。 但為甚麼about一字，和that連用則見於句末，和which連用則見於which之前？ 原來根據正式用法，about等介系詞 (preposition) 須置於關係代名詞之前，例如：I went to the small town in which he lived.（= He lived in a small town. I went to that town. 我去到他居住的小鎮。）不過，作關係代名詞的that之前卻不可用介系詞；假如用that，介系詞就仍居動詞之後：I went to the small town he lived in. 這是較不正宗但較順口的說法，所以多用於口語。 |
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