——他比预料的要回来的早。

He came home earlier than expected.

——He came home earlier than he was expected.

6) be expected to do

eg. We’re expected to work hard.

预计你将六点到达北京。

You’re expected to arrive in Beijing at 6:00.

2. enter

1) come or go in

eg. 进门前你应先敲门。

You should knock the door before you enter.

检查客人们的邀请函，有邀请函的就让他们进来。

Check their invitation cards and let the ones with the invitation cards enter.

2) enter a place

eg. 小偷们从后门进入了大厦。

The thieves entered the building through the back door.

当法官走进法庭时，每个人都站了起来。

Everybody stood up when the judge entered the court.

3) put information into a computer

eg. 她将数据输进了电脑文档。

She entered data into the computer files.

3. surprise n./vt.in surprise     vs     in horror

to one’s surprise

be surprised to do

他们喜欢吃蜗牛，这让我很吃惊。

I was surprised to see that they were fond of eating snails.

We saw that they were fond of eating snails in surprise.

To my great surprise, they were fond of eating snails.

What greatly surprised me was that they were fond of eating snails.

surprised/surprising        adj.

感情类动词   -ed

-ing

eg. move, tire, please, surprise, astonish, excite, amaze, etc.

Exercise:

The NBA match in Beijing was __________ (excite). People got ________ (excite) when they saw Yao Ming score.

From the ________(surprise) look on his face, I know that he hasn’t prepared well.

She has such a ____________(please) look that she has won a lot of favor from teachers.

From the ________(please) look on her face, I know she has done well in the exam.

Keys: exciting, excited, surprised; pleasing; pleased

4. followed by a big dog