时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2015年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

突破口语之独白(15):A disgruntled traveler一位不满的旅客


“Traveling involves so much stress! Preparation is especially hard - trying to arrange the transportation, accommodation, and time off from work.  Packing isn't easy. How can you possibly know everything you may or may not need in a place that's largely unknown to you? Assuming you ever reach your destination, you have to communicate with people who often don't speak your language and you have to navigate 1 your way around an area you have no idea about. How are you supposed to relax under such conditions? And all that money you're spending! For what? I don't get it at all.” 
--George Threadborne, disgruntled traveler


旅行的压力太大了。准备工作尤其艰难,要安排交通、食宿,还要告假。行李收拾也不容易。在一个你一无所知的地方,你怎么可能预料什么对你有用什么又对你没用?假设你到达你的目的地,你必须和那些通常不和你讲同一国语言的人交流。还要在一个你毫不熟悉的地方探路。在这样的情况下你怎么可能放松?还有,想想旅行要花的钱!这到底是为了什么?我可不知道。
                                                                                                                                                                         --不满的旅客          乔治•斯瑞得


注解 :
1) preparation    n. 准备, 预备
2) transportation   n. 运输工具;交通车辆
3) accommodation    n. 住处, 膳宿
4) destination    n. 目的地



1 navigate
v.航行,飞行;导航,领航
  • He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
  • Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。
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acoustic surface-wave couplers
alternate polarity
animal labor
areogrphic latitude
arma plat. (al urumah)
bacterial extract
bacteriophagia
Biscoe, Mount
bound bitumen
calculating of heat exchange
call outs
canal cover plate
car deck space
carbamylate
categorical labels
cattail family
Christling
cliff dweller
clot buster
CO Lasers
coil spring switch
crossed-field amplifier tube
d'artois
delivery failure
deuterium compound
dirt-daubers
discounted cost
display standard
distractious
dived in
driven wheel
emplastrum belladonnae
end fission chamber
entry for search
fair price shop
galactosyls
graftonite
grain harvester
grass-roots
high temperature cable
hybridizable
infinite product
international standard metric thread
intoning
ixcest
laboratory experiment
lactalbumins
laterotemporal
lehua
magic mortgage
microphyte
multilateral and bilateral programme
multiplicative axiom
multipoint channel
multiregion problem
n-vector model
neural laminae
neutron irradiated
Neuwied
northupite
noumeas
pakoras
palindrome (wilson & thomas 1944)
paper stencil printing
parting of the pass
pitieth
plumbing system
port risks
power shaft
precapillary arteriole
preclarent
prepared plant extracts
prewrite
propeller performance curve
recuperative pot furnace
retrospectical
Rhododendron radendum
screw-propelled
semifake
singular nouns
soil tiller
Solemn Mass
speedwalks
spurnest
Squirrel Cage Induction Motors
standard labour rate
star-glories
stream seepage
studlar
stupid o'clock
synthetizes
tanker casualty statistics
transactivational
two-divisions
unidiomaticity
union movement
unsolicited offers
vertical visibility
wedge-and-sleeve bolt
weigang
whal eie