时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Natalie: Hi I'm Natalie and welcome to On the Town. Today I'm at the world-famous Edinburgh festival. Now the festival runs every year and attracts many tourists from all over the world. So let's go and talk to some performers and find out a bit more.


Feifei: 今天的《都市掠影》我们跟随 Natalie 一起来到了一年一度的爱丁堡艺术节。爱丁堡艺术节是世界大型综合性艺术节之一,每年受邀来参加的除了有著名的音乐家和剧团以外,还有很多喜剧表演艺术家也前来为成千上万的观众献上他们的精彩艺术表演。


"My name's Lucy Elcliff and I'm doing two fantastic comedy musicals, one called Plague about the Black Death and we're also doing a brand new musical about pirates, called Piromania. And it's tongue-in-cheek, the songs are fantastic - very catchy 1, there're some beautiful ballads 2 in there, some duets, there's a romantic story as well as comedytastic full-blown in-your-face panto."


Feifei: Lucy 说她参加演出的这两个喜剧音乐剧都是 tongue-in-cheek, 就是说这些音乐剧都是闹着玩儿的,不能当真的玩笑。


她用单词 catchy 来形容这些音乐剧。Catchy 在这里的意思是说一个曲调或歌曲容易记住。


Lucy 还说这些喜剧音乐剧 comedytastic. 这是一个由 comedy 和 fantastic 组成的合成词。


咱们再来听一次,注意听我们上面讲到的词。


"And it's tongue-in-cheek, the songs are fantastic, very catchy there're some beautiful ballads in there, some duets, there's a romantic story as well as comedytastic full-blown in-your-face panto."


Feifei: 下面请听 Natalie 在街头的采访,注意听单词 togas 宽大的外袍和单词 premise 3 前 提。


Natalie: Ok I'm just standing 4 here on the Royal Mile and I've just gone past a lot of people wearing togas, so can you tell me more about what you're promoting here today?


"So we're doing a show called When In Rome, which is a new musical comedy which is set in ancient Rome, it's got like eighties and nineties kind of cheesy music and it's just a lot of fun and that's the premise really and that's why we're wearing bed sheets and singing silly songs."


Feifei: 原来这是以古罗马为背景的一个喜剧音乐剧。Set in 是以什么为背景;ancient Rome 是古罗马。这个音乐剧的音乐非常 cheesy, 我们通常用 cheesy 来表示过时的但是大家仍然很喜欢的东西。


咱们来接着听 Natalie 的采访,这次请注意听单词 flyering 发送传单。在艺术节有很多人在街头发送传单来 promote 宣传他们的演出。


Natalie: Now I can hear the rest of the cast in the background there singing away, I mean this really does bring a great atmosphere to Edinburgh doesn't it?


"Yeah absolutely. I think we're really lucky in the sense that we've got a really big group so we can have a lot of fun all singing together and flyering like that, which I think makes a big difference but I think we've all really really enjoyed the festival, it's been so much fun."


Natalie: So let's go and talk to some people who are visiting the festival.


Feifei: Natalie 接下来采访了一些来参加这次艺术节的观众。不知道大家对今年的艺术节有什么看法?注意听单词 vibrant 5 和短语 thriving with culture.


"It's really vibrant and there are so many people from so many different countries here."


"We definitely want to come back, I mean this whole place is thriving with culture around here."


Feifei: 听清楚了吗?上面受采访的一位观众说今年的艺术节 really vibrant 活力十足,人气很旺。


"It's really vibrant and there are so many people from so many different countries here."


Feifei: 最后一位受采访的观众说他一定会再来,还说今年的艺术节 thriving with culture 文化气息非常浓厚。


"We definitely want to come back, I mean this whole place is thriving with culture around here."


Feifei: 下面我们一起来复习一下今天学到的单词和短语:


你还记得用来形容闹着玩儿的,不能当真的玩笑的那个短语是什么吗?对了,是 tongue-in-cheek.


我们还学习到了两个用来形容音乐的单词 catchy 和 cheesy.


Vibrant 用来形容艺术节活力十足,人气很旺。


Natalie: Bye!



adj.易记住的,诡诈的,易使人上当的
  • We need a new slogan.The old one's not catchy enough.我们需要新的口号,旧的不够吸引人。
  • The chorus is very catchy to say the least.副歌部分很容易上口。
民歌,民谣,特别指叙述故事的歌( ballad的名词复数 ); 讴
  • She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening. 她整晚一个接一个地大唱民谣和乡村小调。
  • She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads,accompanying him on her old piano. 她教他读书,还教他唱两三首民谣,弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏。
n.前提;v.提论,预述
  • Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
  • We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
adj.震颤的,响亮的,充满活力的,精力充沛的,(色彩)鲜明的
  • He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
  • She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。
学英语单词
Alagez Mount
alcine
Allium victorialis
analog-digital simulation computer
atmospheric lapse rate
Bathyergidae
blau
BMP program
branch type instruction
breakup of voyage
cerisies
chabola
chano
computer-controlled memory test system
conchiplasty
controlled avalanche transit time triode
Corsican mints
crown spring
cyclostylar
date indicator core
deigneth
diagnosis ex juvantibus
dicellispora lelebae
direction of deposition
domafic
Dutch Colonial
e-texts
ecash
elaphoglossum angulatum
euplica deshayesi
EVLW
execution circuit
extension crystallization
fetch operand
gad-fly
giartinine
good opportunity
Gosen
herbert a. simons
horse-hoof sleeve
hypochordal longmuscle
immediately following
indefectuous
inquiry agency
International Relations and Security Network
Joghatāy, Kūh-ye
Juan Ramon Jimenez
kietyoite
kinematic extrapolation
lovers' vows
macrobrachium horstii
mimela confucius formosana
Mundjura Cr.
nitrocomplex
noninstitute clause
normal high water level
nukkas
off your face
omega minus
Phaeosphaerida
phone-ins
Pipeline, distribution
plutonyl(vi) chloride
pocket dosimeter
policy making level
Ponente, C.
pothunter
rally caps
random minelaying
repetendum
rib and loin
rice sieve
rolling steel door
rough pipe
semiautomatic seal
seminarcosis
Setcreasea
skunkhead
stack allocation
stand head and shoulders above
sterile creep
strict double counterpoint
strombus labiosus
sunk screw
target flow transmitter
the poles
thermit mixture
TIRC
to use
try every shift available
untabify
uthinia albisignalis
varitypes
Vincadar
Vita glass
vyny
weighted approximation
weighted spectral responsivity
wireline corer
wooden moulding wiring
yester-day
zigzag value