节目寄语：
每日床头啃一段语篇，您的生活质量更加高。
特别声明：
该文章中的讲解为可可签约编辑根据改编的名著所编写的辅助阅读资料。如有出入，请给予指正。
啃嚼语段：
The next day he tried to beg for money, but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison.
第三天,他不得不乞讨小钱了。但在一些村子,他能看到大的牌子,上面写着警告说,任何乞讨的人,一旦抓住后,将被送进监狱。
Travellers on the road refused to give him money；they said he was a lazy young dog and didn"t deserve anything.
路上的行人拒绝给他钱；他们说他是一条小懒狗,不应得到任何东西。
Farmers threatened to send their dogs after him．
农夫们威胁说要放出狗来追他。
When he waited outside pubs, the pub－owners chased him away because they thought he had come to steal something．
他站在小酒店外面时,酒店老板也要赶他走,因为他们认为他是来偷东西的。
only two people were kind enough to feed him：an old woman and a gate－keeper on the road.
只有两个好心人给了他东西吃：一位老妇和一个路上的看门人。
If they had not given him some food, he surely would have died like his mother.
如果不是他们给他东西吃,他肯定会像他母亲一样死去的。
语段精讲
第一、词汇学习
1 deserve vt.应受（奖赏﹑ 特殊待遇等）; 应得
范例：She deserves a reward for her efforts.
她积极努力, 应得到奖赏。
He richly deserved all that happened to him.
他得到这一切确是受之无愧。
2 threaten vt. 恐吓或威胁某人
范例：The boss is always threatening an employee with dismissal.
老板总是以开除要挟雇员。
My attacker threatened me with a gun.
攻击我的人用枪威胁我。
3 chase vt. 露骨地向某人求爱
范例：He's always chasing after women.
他不断地追逐女人。
4 feed vt. 给（人或动物）食物
范例：She has a large family to feed.
她要养活一大家人。
What do you feed your dog on?
你用什么喂狗?
第二、短语学习
1. beg for：乞求，乞讨
范例：May I beg for an interview?
我可以求见吗？
She lifted up her paws to beg for mercy.
她举起她的双掌祈求怜悯。
The proud man said he would starve rather than beg for food.
那个骄傲的人说他宁愿饿死也不愿讨饭。
2. chase away：赶走，驱逐
范例：What can we do to chase her gloom away?
我们有什么法子能消除她的抑郁呢?
She opened the windows to chase the smell of cigarettes away.
她打开窗子驱散香烟气味。
They began to chase me away and I finally had to flee the country.
他们开始赶我走,最后我不得不逃离这个国家。
Let's chase the bees away.
我们一起把蜜蜂赶到远处去吧。
3. be sent to prison：送进监狱
范例：At the thought of being sent to prison, he shook with fear.
他一想到被送进监狱，就吓得发抖。
He was sent to prison for damaging public property.
他因破坏公共财产被处监禁。
She was let off with a fine instead of being sent to prison.
没让她入狱, 而是罚款了事。
He certainly deserves to be sent to prison.
他确实应该被送去坐牢。
第三、写作语汇
1. send their dogs after him：放出狗去追他
2. outside a pub：在酒馆外，在酒吧外
3. keep a door：看门，守门
第四、语法点拨
If they had not given him some food, he surely would have died like his mother.
要点解析：这个句子是非真实条件虚拟句。主句和从句都使用了虚拟语气。从句是have not given，主句是would have died。因为是表示对过去的事情的相反的事实，所以主句用的是would+过去完成时，从句用的是过去完成时。
