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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adjustment curve
airborne artillery
ball head
bar up
beam-accessible memory
benzo fast red 8BL
boundary layer buildup
break something in pieces
cam lobe material
canaliculi of bone
channel sampling
cinquillo
clockwork (clock mechanism)
closed throttle
congresses
core rope
cystocele
deposit weld
dhuodas
dichotomy of variable
Douarnenez
Downstream enterprise
drop shots
dust coats
EBCT
electron attachment coefficient
evolutionary zoomorphology
false papers
fancy edge scissors
Fieux's tests
forced-draft control
gamini
gave forth
growth and decline
hatch survey
HNoMS
Hut'iba
hyperpolarisation
ice caloing
inclined trajectory
infinitivally
input output section
isidiose
joint hinges
key-scheme
Krasang
Liu Shaoqi
lotteries
machinery repairman
mains frequency coreless induction melting furnace
marcles
mechanical cutting method
Meidelstetten
metrothosis
Morrua
mouthier
Nageotte cell
neofabraea populi thompson
Nesterovskiy Rayon
non intersecting
nonabsorbent
Penzoldt's tests
poley-mountain
prepps
preradical
pretilt
propeimine
prosy
representative sampling horizon
retractest
ringeth
Riverina
sale by tender
scenery plot
season of rice transplanting
secondary hypothyroidism
secondary spine
semi-dwarf varieties
Sibirskiy
simmondsia california
six feet under
soil shear strength
spacing for insulation
sphenomorphus taiwanensis
split range positioner
spondylodesis
standard cover paper
Stanton Banks
stress effects
stress strain relation
supercompiler
supersynchronous speed
tanacetifolia
technical commission
telescopic jack
the short end
thermocouple element
Triakis
under-voltage open phase relay
units of variance
unsurety
zinkists