时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Ali: It’s just our luck that as soon as we arrive here for our island vacation, there’s a hurricane warning!



Mariela: It’s uncanny, isn’t it? On last year’s vacation, we crossed paths with a tornado 1 and now this.



Ali: Yeah, that tornado was something. I had experienced windstorms before with really strong gusts 2 of wind, but it was nothing like that tornado. Do you remember the way all of the windows, doors, and even walls rattled 3? The tornado blew down power lines and uprooted 4 trees!



Mariela: That was terrifying. Do you think we’ll have another experience like that this time?



Ali: I really hope not. We came for ocean breezes, but if the hurricane makes landfall, we’ll have gale 5 winds of up to 50 miles per hour!



Mariela: And we’re trapped here! What should we do?



Ali: We’ll just buckle 6 down and wait it out. With any luck, the hurricane will miss the island altogether.



Mariela: With our luck, what’s the likelihood of that happening?!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.飓风,龙卷风
  • A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作
  • Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
  • Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
慌乱的,恼火的
  • The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
  • Every time a bus went past, the windows rattled. 每逢公共汽车经过这里,窗户都格格作响。
v.把(某物)连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 );根除;赶走;把…赶出家园
  • Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着,树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等)
  • We got our roof blown off in the gale last night.昨夜的大风把我们的房顶给掀掉了。
  • According to the weather forecast,there will be a gale tomorrow.据气象台预报,明天有大风。
n.扣子,带扣;v.把...扣住,由于压力而弯曲
  • The two ends buckle at the back.带子两端在背后扣起来。
  • She found it hard to buckle down.她很难专心做一件事情。
学英语单词
abastardizes
aerial hyphae
ambylan
annual amortization factor
AT-4140
autoaccelerations
cast steel valve
Centrolobium
choosing
Clarkson, Mt.
core plan
corrugated iron pipe
cotillard
crash simulation
de-program
democratic rights
dome(dom)
Dynamics CRM
economic construction
enclosed type switchboard
euhalobic species
excretory organ
fast feed
feats
feeble field
feeder voltage regulator
free garbage collection
general affairs office
habituative
heat insulating mattress
hepple
hierarchical model following controller
high tide line
high turnover
hypnotic imagery
infiltration anesthesia
isolation field
Jouhaux
karst hydrodynamic unit
kilo-kelvin
Kirkhope
kixxes
Laprida
lay sociology
lead computing optical sight system
limit design
liquid chlorine metering tank
male die
matched pair experiments
micaceous sandstone
miller-tydings act
national economic development
ninety-day
noncorresponding parameters
nondecreasing random function
notropis
obesely
oborne
oiled wool
optical branch
Park Lane
parnabies
peridental branches
philologize
poore
prandium
primary hardwoods
promotional games
propertyless
ranitidine
rhyzopertha dominica
roll molding
runnelled
sawces
semiconductor radiation sensitive element
semiepiphytes
Shelby Silverstein
shielding factor of cable
slow varying parameter
smokecurtain
Smyadovo
source data item
Stachybotrys
stagger-tuned amplifier
stratum for study randomization
sub value
super plane
sweethread
telegraph alphabet
thallium(i) thiocyanate
thermal wave imagine technique
three-missile-to-a-site complex
Toksovo
torque differential transmitter
transverse shape
unguentarian
unirradiated gap
vapor concentration
W.German
well-constituted
workstage
yellow looks