My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland.

She never thought of it again, but ten months later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland.

新概念二4課

I have just received a letter from my brother, Tim.

收到來信

新概念二34課

Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.

新概念二85課

I have just received a letter from my old school, informing me that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week.

新概念二11課

He gets a good salary, but he always borrows money from his friends and never pays it back.

借

He has never borrowed money from me.

I have never borrowed any money from you

新概念三23課

they had escaped from the paper bag and had taken complete possession of the hall!

它們從紙袋裡逃出來，佔據了整個大廳

新概念三50課

An all-night party on New Year's Eve provided me with a good excuse for not carrying out either of these new resolutions on the first day of the year,

excuse from/for理由藉口

新年前夕一個整夜的party在新年頭一天為我提供了一個很好的不執行這兩項任務的理由

新概念二68課

I had to think of a way of preventing him from following me around all morning.

我必須想一個不讓他一整個上午都纏著我的辦法

新概念三44課

The journey is so smooth that there is nothing to prevent you from reading or sleeping.

旅程是如此的平穩以至於沒有什麼能影響你閱讀和睡覺

新概念三54課

Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.

知道勤奮的螞蟻生活在具有高度組織性的社會里，也阻擋不了當我們看到大群螞蟻在我們精心準備的午間野餐上爬行內心充滿的厭惡

新概念二90課

Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.

現在他們做了特別的籠子用來保護他們免受這些怪物的侵害

新概念三42課

To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber suits.

為了在冰冷的水裡保護自己，他們必須穿戴特殊的橡膠衣服

新概念三53課

Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from highhanded or incompetent public officers.

瑞典已經發展了一種完善的制度以保護每個公民不受專橫的和不稱職的政府官員的欺壓

新概念三36課

After having been wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit.