时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:大忙人学社交口语


英语课

 What's that you're reading?


你在看的那本是什么书?
This? Oh, it's the latest novel by Pam Wheeler.
这本吗?哦,这是帕姆.惠勒最新的小说。
Oh, right. Any good?
原来如此。好看吗?
Yes, it's not bad. It got a gripping 1 plot, and the dialogue is quite witty 2.
嗯,还不错。它的情节不赖,对白也写得很好。
What's it about?
它在讲什么?
It's about sex and shopping, really. It really gets across the mood of the 1980s.
它其实是在谈两性与购物。很能反映出19世纪80年代的心情。
Yes, I read her first book.
的确,我看过她的第一本书。
Oh, yes, that's a classic 3 of its kind. Did you like it?
对啊,它可说是同类的经典之作。你喜欢吗?
It was certainly a page-turner.
它绝对是一本引人入胜的书。
So what are you reading?
那你在看什么?
I'm reading this travel book, about a train journey across Mongolia.
我在看这本旅游书,它谈的是横穿蒙古的火车之旅。
Wow, sounds good.
哇,听起来不错。
Yes, it's really interesting, full of wonderfully vivid descriptions of landscapes.
是啊,有趣得很,里面充满了对景色极为生动的描述。
The only trouble is it's taking me ages to read.
唯一的麻烦是,
Oh, why's that?
我得花很长的时间来看完。
Well, it's a really heavy book, and the binding's broken, so I can't carry it around with me.
哦,为什么会这样?

1 gripping
adj.吸引注意力的v.抓紧( grip的现在分词 );吸引;引起;使感兴趣
  • a gripping Victorian melodrama 动人心弦的维多利亚时代情节剧
  • a gripping narrative of their journey up the Amazon 他们沿亚马孙河而上的扣人心弦的描述
2 witty
adj.机智的,风趣的
  • Her witty remarks added a little salt to the conversation.她的妙语使谈话增添了一些风趣。
  • He scored a bull's-eye in their argument with that witty retort.在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害。
3 classic
n.经典作品;adj.经典的,一流的;古典的
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
  • The football match was a classic.那场足球比赛堪称典范。
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Abelian function field
abnegate
acoelomate
Agallas
airer
al-rashid trusts
algerian dinars
aluminum cable steel reinforced
applausometer
aqar
Arillus longanae
brackish water fish pond
Bryce
calibration rig
clouds of dust
coastal zone
CSR (control shift register)
deichman
dip of load curve
distillation trap
economize raw materials
ended piece
ends down
endurance rupture
feline panleukopenia (fpl)
flag setting peripheral
flaunchings
flustrate
full water cooling generator
gipped
give a for instance
Glamorgan sausage
graptolite shale facies
growing the same crop
house of ill repute
Hubble effect
hull valve
ichththymal
inequitable
internal bucket elevator
internet protocol data unit
kissability
La Loche
laser-inertial navigation system
light-sensitive semiconductor material
load time deflection curve
loose face
lumber ship
manipulate unit
maximum hourly demand
meta-arteriole
metallicas
milk-walk
negative screening
neotokoronin
nigella
nime
non-assimilation
nonthrust
nuclear distintegration
oil sardine
omikuji
oper-ating distance
override price
pantech
pear-switch
perfact fungi
perfect transfer press
petrogeometry
plywoods
post-Keynesian mainstream economics
post-psoriatic
product analysis pricing
radial drilling machines
radiating area
Ramersbach
relieve from
retromoderators
scurfy
self restraint of boundary stress
self-sterility plant
shrubby cinquefoil
social evolutionism
soft wired NC
split body valve
spoused
ST_moving-in-particular-directions_changing-direction
static magnification
structural insensitive
supertype
taken a hit
Teng, Nam
tilting gate
tracking-error propagation and orbit prediction (tepop)
Ulakhan-Sis, Khrebet
video portal
virtualized desktop
visual fatigue
vssomotor
Zenapax
zoster frontalis