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
'Alyā'
acid store room
advancing colo(u)r
Altenheim
anisonormocytosis
anthropologies
Apeldoorn
armiferous
Azelik
battle taxi
Bayt 'Imrān
be of age
beam rotation
bisoxatin
blue-printing-apparatus
bowsprit chock
buccoclination
buffer circuit
cargo allotment
casual clothing
Cauchy directed set of points
charge state
Committee on International Ocean Attairs
computerized society
cotortfeasors
deadweight charters
default browser
demand filter
die casting alloy
diesel automobile
digit wave form
disloigned
door seal
duckbilled platypus
easily
experimental geobotany
feather check
feedback transformator
flame nettles
fleeker
forward shifting
friction barker
from the start
gagong
general regulation
halseny
heavy draft vessel
house organs
imaginary component
in dismay
intrinsic thromboplastin
Kasuguti
kinotheodolite
Kinsele
language independent error recovery method
limitation limit
mail day
mfy
motorcycle taxi
muff clamp chuck
navigable channel
necromancies
Nkouda
non-iron finish
nontextual matter
offputs
on your mark, get set, go
open-doored
packed decimal number
parity coefficient
periodic events
planed signal
Plaski
PMH
polling ID
pottingers
precision processing
presse
prinia inornata flavirostris
Publ'n
pure phenolic boat topping paint
radioacoustic position finding
red pimpernel
residential density
soft material in the center of a culm
solenite
subtectum
supramarginalis
suspended call position
tar poisoning
television-monitored production
tittuping
trivious
trot ... out
turbostratic
unbolstered
unclubbable
uncrashworthy
Uthlede
vital process
Water finds its own level.
zinc-carbon