NPR边听边练18:生活在科幻世界里
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：NPR边听边练
英语课
【NPR边听边练】致力于提供新鲜有趣、饶有意味的时讯资料，致力于通过精听的方式促进听力提高，致力于不断开阔眼界和深入了解美国观点。
精听建议：
先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。
下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？
（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）
From outside it looks just like a regular old apartment, inside it is a full-scale recreation of the Starship Enterprise. The place is strange, and so is the tale of how it came to be. “My wife left me in 1994, and I kind of___1___for a couple of years, was kind of a little bit down, a little bit depressed 1, and taking tranquillizers and antidepressants as a result of that traumatic experience.” To ___2___ funk, a friend loaned him a copy of Star Trek 2: The Next Generation technical manual. A book that documents all the details of how the fictional 3 starship EnterpriseD was constructed. “So I just ___3___the manual and decided 4 to like, like it did to have a go at building the transported control console.” The project that was to ___4___ his breakup misery 5 took off ___5___.
答案：
1.lost in a way
2.pull him out of that
3.fell in love with
4. transport Tony out of
5.at warp speed (warp speed-An extremely rapid speed or state of activity)
adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的
- When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
- His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行
- We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
- It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。
adj.小说的，虚构的
- The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
- The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。