Sometimes were go upstream to a favourite backwater, sometimes we have our party at the boathouse,
有時，我們溯流而上來到我們喜愛的回水河汊舉辦；有時在船塢舉辦。
新概念英語第三冊
Lesson 56 Our neighbour, the river
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
adv. 有時，間或;時而;
?? sometime某一時間的+s表副詞 →有時
"Even friends disagree sometimes."
即便是朋友有時也有分歧。
近義：occasionally, oft, once, rarely, betweentimes, betweenwhiles
反義：invariably, periodically, repeatedly, steadily, usually, consistently
upstream
[??p'stri:m]
adj. 向上游的;逆流而上的;（石油工業等）上游的;
adv. 向上游;逆流地;
n. 上游部門;
"The nearest town is about ten miles upstream."
最近的城鎮大約在沿河向上十英里處。
近義：upriver
反義：downstream
favourite
['fev?r?t]
adj. 特別受喜愛的;
n. 特別喜愛的人（或物）;
"The foreign minister has become everybody's favourite Aunt Sally."
外交部長已成為眾矢之的。
近義：minion, darling, favorite, pampered, pet, preferred
backwater
['b?k?w?:t?]
n. 回水，回流;滯水，死水;閉塞的地方;不受外界事件或新思想影響的地方;
v. 倒開船;食言;
"I find this town too much of a backwater."
我覺得這個城鎮太閉塞.
近義：backwash, undertow, countercurrent, crosscurrent
n. 社交聚會;黨，黨派;當事人;同類，伙伴;
v. 為…舉行社交聚會;為…請客;參加社交聚會;
adj. 政黨的，黨派的;社交的，聚會的;共有的，共同的;
?? 派對(諧音): 聚會{開party} 部分(part)丫頭(y) 集會組 黨
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
兩黨制的對抗性
近義：roister, carouse, celebrate, feast, revelry, bash
反義：bore