时间:2019-01-21 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

   Deborah: I can’t wait to see the elephants at the zoo. I wish I could see them in their natural habitat, but a zoo is the next best thing.


  Zach: I don’t want to go to a place where animals are kept in captivity 1. How would you like it if you were locked in a cage and gawked at all day?
  Deborah: The animals in zoos are lucky. They have a nice, safe place to live away from predators 2, and their handlers make sure they never go hungry. Zoos preserve endangered species.
  Zach: If you think it’s so nice living in zoos, I’d like to see you switch places with a lion or a monkey for a month and see how you like it.
  Deborah: Animals aren’t people. They don’t have the same wants and needs.
  Zach: That’s what you think. One day, the animals aren’t going to take it anymore. They’ll rise up and break their shackles 3.
  Deborah: And will you be their ringleader?
  Zach: No, I’ll be their cheering section. It’s about time animals get some respect.
  Deborah: Have you seen Planet of the Apes?! I’ll reserve a cage for you!
  Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 );奴役他人者(尤指在财务或性关系方面)
  • birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
  • The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
手铐( shackle的名词复数 ); 脚镣; 束缚; 羁绊
  • a country struggling to free itself from the shackles of colonialism 为摆脱殖民主义的枷锁而斗争的国家
  • The cars of the train are coupled together by shackles. 火车的车厢是用钩链连接起来的。
学英语单词
2-DIEP
arge
autoflash
babylonia areolata austraoceanensis
bar-stool
biastigmatism
blood-retina barrier
chemical remediation
chicken-shits
chiricahua apaches
chopped chopping
coconut-fibre
cohibit
coining compact
conceale
control rod lattice for criticality
coupling shaft
crimes against property
dense phosphate crown
deyoung
diffusing media
diode suppresser
distribution anisotropy
distribution trade
double graphite sleeve
draftmate
edge-support interface
electric fresh water heater
elliott type axle
expected data
field press censorships
fishing hook
Flauenskjold
florepleno
free valve mechanism
free-center-type clamp
galvanizing hot dip
Gibraltar for Orders
good Goddess
Habay-la-Neuve
hemobilirubin
hernangerine
heyses
high density cement
hose proof machine
hyperoxidative
hypomelanotic
interaction of species
intrinsic coercivity
Iyevkovo
lace paper
left-of-center
libelled
Little Tennessee River
martialities
mental institutions
Meredith, L.
metatrochophora
methylgreen-pyronine
mish-mash
molybdenumiron
monacolins
Muzalëvka
narrow-leaved plantain
nervi supraclaviculares
ninjutsus
Nunavimmiut
output (process)
paring knives
pipet filler
pked
qalat siman
radomir
remaining deviation
renal dysplasia
rose pinks
router table
selenous acid anhydride
sempre forte
serve a sentence on bail
shark oil
Silene macrostyla
silicate crown
silicon controlled
skive off sth
Solanum wendlandii
sorting key word
spratlike
spray solidification
Starbuck Glacier
static electricity spraying
structural material swelling
subsea work enclosure
tawite-porphyry
theoretical volumetric efficiency
tight monetary policy
titanic iron ore (ilmenite)
unhills
uniform effluent standard
vibration screen
wanjigis
water yam