时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Jo: Welcome to another Real English programme from BBC Learning 1 English with me, Jo.


Lily: And with me, Lily. 在BBC两分钟的地道英语节目中,大家可以学到很多英式英语中新出现的词语,非常有用,Jo 今天学什么呢?


Jo: Well today's word is sticks S.T.I.C.K.S. Sticks.


Lily: Jo, 我知道作为最常用的名词 sticks 是棍棒的意思,不过,特意选择这个词,你一定另有用意吧?


Jo: Well we use the expression 'the sticks' to mean somewhere far from a town or city – in the countryside.


Lily: 明白了,the sticks 是表示距离城镇较远的乡下。


Jo: We usually say 'in the sticks' or 'out in the sticks'. So if you live in a remote place...


Lily: Remote 偏远的地方。


Jo: ... you could say I live in the sticks. Or if you visited a remote place you could say it was somewhere out in the sticks.


Lily: 让我们一起听两段对话。


Insert


A: I'm going to visit my grandmother tomorrow.


B: Where does she live?


A: She lives in the sticks – this really tiny village in Scotland 2.


A: So what did you do this weekend?


B: We went for a drive in the countryside and we had a lovely meal in this pub 3 which was way out in the sticks.


Jo: So Lily, have you travelled much around the UK?


Lily: Oh yes, I've been to lots of towns and out in the sticks too.


Jo: And where would you say is in the sticks in China?


Lily: 枣庄 – 就是远离城市的乡下小村子 in the sticks.


Jo: So that's today's word – sticks.


Lily: Sticks 远离城镇的偏远地区,汉语就是乡下的意思。


Jo: Bye for now.


Lily: 再会!



1 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
2 Scotland
n.苏格兰
  • He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月。
  • Scotland is to the north of England.苏格兰在英格兰之北。
3 pub
n.[英]旅馆,小店,酒馆
  • He is the landlord of this pub.他是这家酒店的店主。
  • They saw that four large men marched into the pub.他们看到四个彪形大汉走进了酒吧。
学英语单词
abdominal cavities
accelerator ZDMC
agrip
alginic acid
anacanthus
anti-bottom quark
arrested failure
associated emission
banderol, banderole
basic separating
basosexine
Belling saccharimeter
bepitying
Biassini
bitterweeds
cammaron
capital of Oklahoma
change-over channel steamer
charge-storage diode
chloralkaline
chlorobenzyl chloride
cholecystokinin (cck)
complemeent (darlington 1932)
correlation analysis method
countervailing
deformation loss
detectable effect
dimethyldihydroresorcinol
direct-current grid bias
distributed feedback
dyadic array
electronic shower
Elsholtzia hunanensis
filter editor
food and beverage expenses
footlongs
glass reinforced concrete glass
grant woods
harangue
heading per steering compass
herringbone pipe
hewsons
hinchleys
Holter system
incipient incision
incipient scorch
Incomati (Komati)
internal strapped block
isoolivil
laser-Raman spectrometry
laxogenin
leakage and drip
Lisfranc's tubercle
lobes
macgregor hatch cover
maximum colour acuity
medium irrigated emulsion
metachromatic bodies
Molatón
Morinville
nabzenil
negotiated meaning
nitrogen-to-protein conversion factor
non-americans
offspringless
organizatory
Otego
Over-allotment option
OWRS
Panax schin-seng Nees
Passengers Ships in Inland Waters
pastoral stage
pentetate
petersen sir elutriator
phase interchange rate
Polygonum patulum
pteroxygonum giraldii dammer et diels
rabelo
relieve stress
schwalb
scratch resistance
seat cover for vehicle
security option
seen with half an eye
self starter
sequential data structure
setting-out work
shapiro-wilk test
side by side display
superimposed preeclampsia
sweated joint
telocollinites
tendon lengthening
thermal radiation destruction distance
topological relation
total equity
ultraviolet dwarf
uredinology
Vilyuy
virtual volume
volumetrics
xanthohumol