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。
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A Chorus Line
academic requirements
anorectal stenosis
Art Institute of Chicago
aster rugulosus maxim.
autocapacity coupling
autocrimes
Avnyugskiy
azerbaidjans
be separated
blttle neck effect
carrying charge on investment
cobalt ferrite
commercial community
common collector amplifier
conditional short-circuit current
constant current transformator
continuous recirculation
coolant gas loss make-up
corticopinum cum zinco
cug (abbreviation)
dark currentvoltage curve
depleted uraniumDU
digastric branch
direct surface runoff
drive ratio
dyo-
equip
erythrol
Etionizin
Facebook Timeline
granulated fertilizers
graphicrecording
Gugu Yimidhirr
have a suck of
hilyer
homoplasy
hydrogen refrigerated
independent probability
indian madders
industrial and provident societies
intake canal
Iridoviridae
Japan current
kolong
late-acting
lift strut
limited-area prediction
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Lonicera gynochlamydea
made a martyr of myself
main undercarriage assembly
maximum traverse of boring spindle
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neomorph
new high key
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overtanned
OWV
partition equilibrium
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PES
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rare earth fluoride
reach out to somebody
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scrotumed
searchers
shock line
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square reticle
SSSC
subsurface pump
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target routine
task driver
thermal compensation
thermoelectric actinograph
thermoplastic phenolic resin
thiopeptide
torsion module
tubenose
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tylee
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xo gonadal dysgenesis