时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Feifei:大家好,欢迎收听《地道英语》节目。我是冯菲菲,今天和我一起主持节目的是 Rob. Rob, what are you doing?


Rob:(counting out money) Oh hi, I'm just counting up all my money… actually, could I borrow £100 please?


Feifei: £100? That's a lot of money. What do you need it for?


Rob: Well, with all my savings 1 plus your £100, I'll just have enough.


Feifei: For what?!


Rob: To invest in this new company my friend is setting up. He's invented this machine where you can talk to people anywhere in the world and there are no wires or cables. It's going to be a huge success.


Feifei: Rob, that sounds to me like a mobile phone – that's already been invented.


Rob: Yeah but you can also type messages on it and send them to other people. Amazing! If this is successful my investment is going to make me millions of pounds!


Feifei: Rob 觉得投资他朋友的公司肯定能有很多钱赚。Don't put all your eggs in one basket.


Rob: What? I'm not investing in eggs – this is real money – and what do you mean about one basket? I wasn't going to put the money in a basket!


Feifei: It's a saying! Don't put all your eggs in one basket 的意思是不要把所有的钱都放在一个篮子里,也就是我们常说的不要孤注一掷。我觉得 Rob 不应该把钱全都投在一个生意里。 Rob, don't use all of your savings on this one idea – it might fail.


Rob: Fail? Do you really think so? Are you really saying putting all my eggs – or all my money - in one basket is too risky 2?


Feifei: Exactly. 把所有的钱都放进一个投资项目里并希望有所回报的风险是很大的。Here are some more examples of the idiom in action:


I know you're confident about getting that job but I don't think you should put all your eggs in one basket. Why don't you apply for a few more, just in case?


My dad says I should buy shares in a lot of different companies, and not put all my eggs in one basket.


Feifei: 所以说千万不要孤注一掷 don't put all your eggs in one basket! Have you got the message Rob?


Rob: Yes, I think so. I mustn't depend on one idea to make me rich. I'm not so sure about my friend's new idea. But does that mean you won't lend me £100?


Feifei: No.


Rob: What about for my other cracking good idea - one that you really will need a basket for?


Feifei: Rob 还有一个能赚钱的办法。What is it?


Rob: I have bought a chicken. It means I won't have to buy eggs at the supermarket anymore. It will save me lots of money. Oh look, she's just laid her first egg… here, Feifei, catch. Can you put that in the basket for me?


Feifei: Watch out, you nearly hit me.


Rob: Ha, then you would have had egg on your face!


Feifei: Excuse me?


Rob: That's another saying, I'll explain another time. Come on, let's go and boil this egg.


Feifei: How egg-citing! 好了,感谢收听,下次《地道英语》节目再会啦。Bye.


Rob: Look! She's laying another one.



n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
adj.有风险的,冒险的
  • It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险,但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
  • He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
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absolute zero temperature
addition of failure rates
Aldreth
anorexy
arsonous
arthonia tumidula
backstep welding
basic subroutine reference
bearded seal
Bible-clerk
Bifrost
biochemical degradation
Birch Hills
black clip
bleaching agent I for wool
boom cut
buried wire
businesses-to-businesses
Caltra
carvan
catechol-oxydase
char combustion
cluster fly
communifaking
constant value conrol
cordyceps sinensis (berk) sacc
depaves
divisibleness
Djerba, I.de
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external definition symbol
frankl
frequency response testing
gelled patterning and gilding
hazeless
hexamethyl
hole semi-conductor
human T-cell leukemia virus
hump day
iatrogenic impotence
inclination angle of an orbit
information processing systems
internal beam current
kernel of multi-microprocessor operating system
Kira-gawa
latern (ring)
liquid-saturation curve
long keeping
luster of wood
mailbox name
malleable cast-iron
manganese(iv) hydroxide
mareogram
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metellis
Middenmeer
mucilago tragacanthae
myeloparalysis
Newaygo County
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nuristans
osyter bed
Pacahuaras, R.
paganised
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panentheist
pantomycin
peck and hale
photoefficiency of photocathode
photreceptors
piosity
preamble clause
prioritisings
Purnea
relative growth method
repeating circle
retromandibular
scroll bone
second level interrupt
securities market line
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simke
Sinnamary
spectrohelioscope
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St Andrews's cross
starded
sulcus infrapalpebralis
tatkal
team project
tetrachordos
tige
unloaded spring
unsightliest
urodelian
Valdemembra, R.
vehicle actuated signal
wature
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wild purslanes
with a yawn