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。
学英语单词
adell
agendize
alphabetical, alphabetic
Ambraveine
annular beam control modulator
ardisia squamulosa
atopic rhinitis
be staring at sth
benesov nad cernou
berlaymonts
birdhouses
Bissegem
boom outstretch
Bowling Green State University
ceratopetalum gummiferums
Chung Tu
cognitive study
commodity inspection bureau
crude talc ore
CSED
curvicornis
day tripper
diffuse scattering surface
disk storage subsystem
displacement spike
drying air unit
epi wafer
equisegmental
erective
fan driven generator
farming land
fast movement liquid crystal display
floor construction
foundry hand
gelidiopsis repens
general service hose
general shear failure
genus boutelouas
genus Molucella
gets worse
Gilbert,Walliam
golddust
graves
green water impact
gross national product index number
high viscosity triple screw pump
hurdies
hydraulic overload
hydrofosterite
index of association
index of inventory sale ratio
indicean
initial treatment regimen
invariant relation
jeeta
Kisenga
Ledamox
leptodactylids
level of anesthesia
lifting off
longitudinally asymmetric heating
losslessly
mamelonated
man-witch
megameg
metal ribbon
mud scow
Mödhrudalsheidhi
note order payable to bearer
nursing women
offering for sale
offi
old red earth
optical aim
Pedicularis micrantha
positive catalyst
power output supplied by machine
pressure fan
re submitted
rept
rodentologists
ross filter
sex assault
smiths cross cut chisel
sorocyst
spacefilling model
special prosecutor
state sovereignty
submersible warships
sylvester iis
system wide
tank rectifier
technological style
the farewell
the odd
the waterline
trochoginglymus
uterocele
viadril
Vieux-Condé
wolfberry
zeroth sound