Sometimes were go upstream to a favourite backwater, sometimes we have our party at the boathouse,
有时，我们溯流而上来到我们喜爱的回水河汊举办；有时在船坞举办。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 56 Our neighbour, the river
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
adv. 有时，间或;时而;
💡 sometime某一时间的+s表副词 →有时
"Even friends disagree sometimes."
即便是朋友有时也有分歧。
近义：occasionally, oft, once, rarely, betweentimes, betweenwhiles
反义：invariably, periodically, repeatedly, steadily, usually, consistently
upstream
[ˌʌp'stri:m]
adj. 向上游的;逆流而上的;（石油工业等）上游的;
adv. 向上游;逆流地;
n. 上游部门;
"The nearest town is about ten miles upstream."
最近的城镇大约在沿河向上十英里处。
近义：upriver
反义：downstream
favourite
['fevərɪt]
adj. 特别受喜爱的;
n. 特别喜爱的人（或物）;
"The foreign minister has become everybody's favourite Aunt Sally."
外交部长已成为众矢之的。
近义：minion, darling, favorite, pampered, pet, preferred
backwater
['bækˌwɔ:tə]
n. 回水，回流;滞水，死水;闭塞的地方;不受外界事件或新思想影响的地方;
v. 倒开船;食言;
"I find this town too much of a backwater."
我觉得这个城镇太闭塞.
近义：backwash, undertow, countercurrent, crosscurrent
n. 社交聚会;党，党派;当事人;同类，伙伴;
v. 为…举行社交聚会;为…请客;参加社交聚会;
adj. 政党的，党派的;社交的，聚会的;共有的，共同的;
💡 派对(谐音): 聚会{开party} 部分(part)丫头(y) 集会组 党
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
两党制的对抗性
近义：roister, carouse, celebrate, feast, revelry, bash
反义：bore