时间:2019-01-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Larry开车接李华去看医生,路上堵车迟到了。李华今天要学两个常用语,meltdown和make up.


LL: I'm really sorry I am late, Li Hua. But there is no need for you to have a meltdown about it.


LH: (生气地)如果meltdown是生气的意思,那没错,I am having a meltdown.


LL: (Sheepishly) Well, Li Hua, perhaps now isn't the best time for an English lesson, but a meltdown is an excessively emotional response to a disappointment or a crisis 1.


LH: (还是有点生气)meltdown是融化的意思,跟遇到挫败或是危机,情绪过分激动有什么关系呢?


LL: Well, the term meltdown refers to the melting of the core of a nuclear reactor 2. When that happens, the nuclear reactor becomes unstable 3 and may explode.


LH: 噢,原来是从核反应堆来的。Well, I guess I did have a meltdown. 你今天迟到,我确实很生气。


LL: I must say, it is very unlike you to have a meltdown. You are usually so calm and understanding.


LH: 我生气可是有理由的。你迟到了不是一会儿,而是整整半个小时。看来我去看医生也要迟到了。


LL: I understand why you had a meltdown, Li Hua. But honestly, there is nothing I could do about it. You know how unpredictable the traffic is in New York City.


LH: 也是,我刚才太急了,没有给你解释的机会。你在路上遇到什么状况了吗?


LL: Well, there was a car accident that blocked traffic for a long time. It wasn't very serious accident, but when the two drivers got out of their cars, there was a total meltdown in communication.


LH: 你为什么说这两个司机之间发生了total meltdown呢?


LL: Well, one driver was really angry. He was all red in the face and was yelling 4 loudly. I could tell he was having a meltdown.


LH: 啊,脸红脖子粗的大吵大闹,真是够吓人的。那另外一个司机呢?他们俩没打起来吧?


LL: The other driver ended up having a meltdown, too - but in a different way. When the first driver started yelling at her, she started to cry.


LH: 原来还是个女的,真可怜。警察来了吗?


LL: By the time the police arrived, the two drivers had recovered from their meltdowns and were calm. The police officers were very professional.


LH: 还好最后得到了圆满解决,最重要的是没有人受伤。对不起,Larry,我刚才不问青红皂白就对你大发脾气。


LL: Don't worry about it, Li Hua. Everyone has a meltdown every once in a while.


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LL: Well, after that meltdown, don't you think it is time for you and me to make up, Li Hua?


LH: Make up? 吵完架为什么要化妆呢?


LL: No, no. To "Make Up" means to get back to being friends after a fight.


LH: 我已经向你道歉,你也接受了,这就等于是和好了吧?


LL: Yes, I think we have made up. We are still friends, right, Li Hua?


LH: 我们当然是朋友,你也知道,我不会真跟你生气的。I am glad we've made up. 真希望Janet也能跟她的男朋友Tom和好。他们上星期吵架,到现在都不说话。Janet痛苦极了。


LL: Well, sometimes it is hard to make up with some one - especially when the argument is over something serious or someone is really stubborn 5 and won't listen to the other person.


LH: Janet倒并不固执,她很想跟Tom和好,可是Tom好像没有和好的意思。他们是因为Tom跟另外一个女孩子很接近才吵架的。


LL: Hmmm...Well, if Tom hasn't tried to make up with Janet in a week, maybe he is more interested in that other girl.


LH: Larry, 快别说了,我们还得赶去看医生呢!


LL: Don't have another meltdown, Li Hua. I'll get you to the doctor's appointment. I think it was worth taking the time to make up and be friends again, don't you, Li Hua?


今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是meltdown, 是情绪过分激动的意思。另一个是make up, 是和好的意思。

 



n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
n.反应器;反应堆
  • The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里,大分子裂变为小分子。
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的现在分词 )
  • The coach stood on the sidelines yelling instructions to the players. 教练站在场外,大声指挥运动员。
  • He let off steam by yelling at a clerk. 他对一个职员大喊大叫,借以发泄怒气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.难以移动,去除的,固执的,顽固的
  • I can not cope with that boy;he is stubborn.我对付不了那个孩子,他很固执。
  • When he's in his stubborn mood,he isn't easily talked round.他那股牛劲上来了,一时不容易说服。
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address-book
agglutinating
agryban
at (one's) pleasure
autoequivalences
Baccaurea
banana-leaf
Bartholomew doll
bass flute
blood-spattered
brown rice belly
buttered someone up
caridina brevicarpalis
circuit tourism
clomiphenes
closed circuit filling system
coleocela
constrictor naris
corneal abrasion
cosmic microwave radiation
Dalby's carminative
decentred lens
degree of polymerization of a polymer
derrick erecting truck
diachronic public relations
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
ear tick
focal reducer
Fortcinolone
gafiating
glans of clitoris
gourd vegetables
graphic control
Green Cay
Grosa, I.
heat analysis
high modulus weave
homotharicrine
hosecock
house-party
i-hoked
induced homomorphism
indurain
infant-toddler
infantile oxyuriasis
integral joint casing
Jiantizi
Kombinat
Krasnovodsk
lepiota alba
liverer
low frequency electrical porcelain
mcgarvey
mercurification
nearest neighbor search
nerve cement
non-convertible
off-keier
one group critical equation
ony
orris-powder
palew
palmatipartite
partially hanging rudder
petrophytes
phase accumulator
photohobia
phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Piper betle L.
platismatia formosana
pledge card
plumpline
preset potentiometer
profitability index
propylene glycol alginate
public-address systems
randonnee
reflected radiation
relocating loader
ricebird
rolled joint
roof baggage rack
rubber sleeve core barrel
sea otter fur
shore-fast
sight bill
sodium ethyl sulfate
somlich
spell-binders
stabilized sulphur trioxide
synandrium
tan sb's hide
tank drainback
time correction circuit
too littlest
turbine low vacuum protection
two-way latticed grid
video-tapeds
well-carved
woodland pasture
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