1. Welcome to the world of JK Rowling!
欢迎来到罗琳世界
welcome v./ n./ adj./ interj. 欢迎。常用句型有：
1)welcome to…欢迎来到……
[例]Welcome to our school！欢迎来到我们学校！
注意：此句型常误用为Welcome you to our school.
2)give sb a warm welcome 热烈欢迎某人。
[例]Let’s give Mr Jackson a warm welcome. 让我们热烈欢迎杰克逊先生。
3)You are welcome. 不用客气。不用谢。
2. Harry also learns to be brave and to do things he used to be afraid of.
哈利也变得大胆了, 敢于做过去不敢做的事情。
used to 过去常常（但现在不再如此）。
[例] I do not go to the movies so often as I used to.
我不像以前那样常去看电影了。
注意：used to 和be used to的区别。be used to/ get used to 习惯于
[例]I don’ t think I am used to the life here.
我觉得不习惯这里的生活。
3.Where someone is born and what a person looks like is not as important as what he or she grows up to be.
一个人的出生和长相并不重要, 重要的是他和她长大后将成为什么样的人。
句中的Where someone is born，what a person looks like和what he or she grows up to be.
是名词性从句。名词性从句由who, what, which, whom, whose等连接代词和when, where, why, how
等连接副词以及that, if, whether等引导，在句中可作主语、表语、宾语和同位语。
Whether she’s coming or not doesn’t matter too much.她来不来关系不大。
The fact is (that) I have never been there.事实是我从未去过那里。
We haven’t decided when we will start off.我们还没决定何时动身。
He holds the view that we should not give up the plan.他认为我们不应该放弃这个计划。
4. If only they could find a way to get to the room, or whatever it was, behind the door.
要是他们能找到一条通道进入墙后的那个房间，或无论什么地方，该有多好！
1）if only用于感叹句中，表示愿望，意为“要是……就好，但愿……”。句中常用虚拟语气谓语动
词形式，用一般过去时表示对现在的愿望，用过去完成时或could have done表示对过去的愿望，
用过去将来时表示对将来的愿望。
[例] If only he arrives in time!
但愿他能及时赶到。
[例]If only you had worked with great care!
你要是更仔细一些该多好啊！
[例]If only you could/If you could only have seen it!
我真希望你当时能看到它！
[例] If only she would marry me!
但愿她能嫁给我！
2）if only “只要”，引导条件状语从句。
[例]If only it clears up, we’ll go.只要天一放晴，我们就去。
5. He was just about to say something when Pete turned around.
他刚想说什么, 这时, 皮特转过
身来。 be about to do sth. 即将。
[例] I was just about to leave when the telephone rang.
我正要离开，电话铃响了。
