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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aichis
alloy magnet-head
apogon angustatus
aqtobe
askability
atomistic simulation
autowind
base classes
basic chrome sulfate
belt magnetic separator
bendeth
boohooed
branch and hang
cast-
chemical-waste
child-births
cholepoietic
cipolla
clear-cut finish
cry out for
data marshaling
diamond formation
dipseys
dry pregnant mature cows
dynamic stability
ear trumpet
electric fence controller
enantiosymmetric polymerization
extortionately
extra high molecular polymer
exundated
filling compound
film cleaning
flax meal
folk ballads
fumble for
FWG
gesticulators
ghetto marketing
gigameter
grab linkage
great circle distance
grouped pass
gyro scope
half-lights
helium 1
hexamethylmelamine
high-temperate material
hydroscopic
in-towner
influent seepage
Kluane L.
laser tip
last figure
light-dependent control element
lip-plumping
Loveland Pass
melanhydrite (palagonite)
menthene
minimum run-off year
mmself
monolithic concrete
n.s.w
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porta potty
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redemption by drawing
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rehearses
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Riesz transform
Salmon P. Chase
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speaker independent recognition
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stand structure
steelmaking technology
streem
technocausis
telex station
Tetany-psychosis
the Gray Lady
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trenching machine
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vice chairman, vice-chairmen
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wildlife habitat index
wise-like
zero caustic condition
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