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Today, Pete and I are meeting with a consultant who will help us with our new show.
今天，皮特和我要去见一位顾问，她将帮助我们完成我们的新节目。
Yesterday, Pete had promised to meet me here at 8:00 am.
昨天，皮特已经答应早上8点在这里见我。
But he did not come on time.
但是他没有准时来。
Uh-oh. It’s bad to be late for a business meeting.
呃-哦。 商务会议迟到是很糟糕的。
But while we wait for Pete, let’s talk about a new verb tense -- past perfect!
但是当在我们等皮特的时候，让我们来谈谈一个新的动词时态——过去完成时!
You know the past tense, right?
你知道过去时，对吧?
Like, "Pete promised to meet me here at 8:00 a.m."
比如"皮特答应早上八点在这里见我"
Past perfect is a little different.
过去完成时有点不同。
When we talk about two things in the past, we can use the past perfect for the first event.
当我们谈论过去的两件事时，我们可以用过去完成时来表示第一件事。
Put "had" before the past participle.
把"had"放在过去分词之前。
"Pete had promised he would meet Anna."
“皮特已经答应早上8点在这里见我。”
Here's your assignment: find sentences with the past perfect tense.
这是你的任务:找出带有过去完成时态的句子。
Remember, look for "had!"
记住，找“had!”
You two are late -- exactly 43 minutes late!
你们俩迟到了，整整迟到了43分钟!
What happened?
发生了什么事?
He had to get his "special" coffee -- SPECIAL coffee!
他要喝他的“特别”咖啡——特别咖啡!
She had to feed her birds -- HER birds!
她要喂她的鸟——她的鸟!
Okay, okay. I can see already that you need my help.
好吧,好吧。我已经知道你们需要我的帮助了。
You can’t both talk at the same time. You have to take turns.
你们俩不要同时说话。你们得轮流说。
Alright, Anna, you go first.
好的，安娜，你先说。
Sure. Kelly, see, Pete and I live in the same building.
当然。凯莉，你知道，皮特和我住在同一栋楼里。
So, we decided to meet at 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. to come to work together.
所以，我们决定早上八点见面-早上八点一起来上班。
I had waited 15 minutes when Pete arrived!
皮特到的时候我已经等了15分钟了!
After Pete had wasted time waiting for coffee, we were late.
皮特浪费了时间等咖啡后，我们迟到了。
I left you a message.
我给你留了言。
Hum. I didn’t get that message.
嗯...。 我没收到留言。
Oh. Sorry.
哦。抱歉。
Pete?
皮特？
Anna left a message. That’s the right thing to do.
安娜留了言。这是正确的做法。
Did you find some examples of the past perfect sentences?
你找到一些过去完成句的例子了吗?
I did. Anna said,
我找到了。安娜说，
"After Pete had wasted time waiting for coffee, we were late."
“皮特浪费了时间等咖啡后，我们迟到了。”
Look at that coffee! It looks more like dessert!
看那杯咖啡! 它看起来更像甜点!
Okay, keep watching for past perfect!
好吧，继续看过去完成时吧!
Yeah, that’s not why we’re late.
是，但那不是我们迟到的原因。
This is why we’re late:
这才是我们迟到的原因:
I had arrived on time at 8:00 a.m. but didn’t see Anna.
我早上8点已经准时到了，但没有看到安娜。
She was standing behind a tree. I think she was hugging it.
她正站在一棵树后面。 我想她正拥抱它。
I always walk to work. But she said that would take too long
我总是走路去上班。但她说这需要很长时间。
and that a scooter would be much faster. It was awful.
摩托车会快得多。这是可怕的。
I hated it. And it added too much time to our commute!
我讨厌它。这也增加了我们通勤的时间!
Then Anna stopped by a pond to feed the birds.
然后安娜在一个池塘边停下来喂鸟。
She had named them after characters from books and yelled the names out loud…
她用书中人物的名字给它们命名后，并大声喊出名字。
Romeo! Juliet! Sherlock!
罗密欧! 朱丽叶! 夏洛克!
By the time she had fed all the birds, we were late.
等到她喂完所有的鸟时，我们迟到了。
This is what I think.
这是我的想法。
You two see the same event very differently.
你们对同一件事的看法完全不同。
Does this happen often with you two?
你们俩经常这样吗?
Yes.No.
是。不是。
No. Yes.
不是。是。
Okay. This is good. This is good! It’s good to see things differently.
好吧。这很好。这很好! 从不同的角度看问题很好。
I have an idea: we will call the show "He Said, She Said."
我有个主意:我们把这个节目命名为“他说，她说”。
For every story, you tell a different point of view.
对于每一个故事，你们都讲述了不同的观点。
That is a great idea, Kelly! Pete, we are different.
这是个好主意，凯利! 皮特，我们不一样。
That’s why I thought of you for this job!
这就是为什么我觉得你适合这份工作!
I think you two understand perfectly.
我觉得你们俩完美理解了。
Let’s get to work!
让我们开始工作吧!
She named the birds? Really?
她给这些鸟起了名字? 真的吗?
Yeah…
是的...
Of course, Anna named the birds! Everyone should have a name.
当然，安娜给这些鸟起了名字! 每个人都应该有个名字。
And everyone should learn past perfect!
每个人都应该学习过去完成时!
Remember, you can use it to talk about two different things that happen in the past.
记住，你可以用它来谈论过去发生的两件不同的事情。
Okay, Prof. Bot signing off.
好吧，博特教授结束广播。
