时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning 1 English, I’m Neil.


Helen: 大家好,我是 Helen.


Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time, but you probably won’t find in your dictionary.


Helen: 希望您在今天的地道英语节目中能学到在词典里可能找不到的常用英语表达。Are you ok, Neil? You seem out of breath.


Neil: Oh, my train was cancelled, so I had to get a bus to work but it was packed with people and really slow because of the traffic.


Helen: Oh dear! 他的火车班次被取消了,结果他得坐公共汽车,在路上还堵了很久,所以上班迟到了。


Neil: What a nightmare 2!


Helen: A nightmare – 噩梦。


Neil: In English, a nightmare is a scary dream, but we can also use it to mean a bad experience or event.


Helen: A nightmare 是一个噩梦, 它也可以用来形容一段可怕的经历。


Example


A: Oh I’m glad that exam’s over. It was alright, wasn’t it?


B: Really? I thought it was a nightmare.


Neil: He thought the exam was a nightmare. It was too difficult for him and the experience was bad.


Helen: 对他来说,考试简直就是一场噩梦 a nightmare. 太难了,整个经历的感觉都不好。


Neil: Anyway Helen, how are you at the moment?


Helen: I’m alright, though I have got my in-laws staying at my house for six months.


Neil: Oh really, that sounds like an absolute 3 nightmare!


Helen: 我的公公婆婆搬到我家来住6个月,Neil 觉得听起来就是麻烦,特别可怕的噩梦,an absolute nightmare.


Neil: Well at least a bit of a nightmare…


Helen: 一点点可怕,a bit of a nightmare.


Neil: Bye!



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 nightmare
n.恶梦,可怕的事物,无法摆脱的恐惧
  • I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
  • I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦,失眠了。
3 absolute
adj.十足的;绝对的;不受任何限制的
  • The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
  • I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。
学英语单词
'zactly
a toll
a two
Ainsliaea aptera
airboxes
analog digital analog converter system
axiomatic geometry
baldrs
base of mandible
bearing end
binary compatible
binder resin
boot-legging
bromstyrol
canga
cartographic generalization of water system
casting analyzer
clintons
color centers
colpocystitis
components of variance
contaminating material
corpora vesicae felleae
corrosion behaviour
cyclic permuted code-to-binary converter
dayrover
depurate
discontinuous transmission
dormitory suburb
electrical capacity altimeter
electronic scanning television
English sonnets
enter into rivalry with
entropylike
firn wind
Fukuoka City Finance Limited
genus Carum
genus Grison
grammatological
Havnbjerg
high quantum number
hold to account
holly oak forest
horizontals
Hypomobile
i-will
idiopathic multiple pigmented hemorrhagic sarcoma
impermeable groyne
intelligence quotient classification
inter-industry
intermolecularity
ion-exchange resin absorption
irenina ebuli
k-cell
kalans
kerosene lamps
languor
low-compression
lsit of drivers
lyberger
M macroglobulin
milled screw
Moving Average Ribbon
negative-activation method
non-treated
nonpainted
nonshell
perichondritis of auricle
plaisterish
plant organism
plastomer
polydextran gel
Quercus multinervis
Rathke's ducts
rearragement
reduction activation
remails
rensel
sales-area test
Salures
scorepad
screw hook
segregated ballast water tank system
shiny cowbirds
socioemotionally
spatial data base management system
steadiness number
store calf
suppliment
take the bit and the buffet
Telmest
thick juice clarification
toolmaker's button
trans-fatty acid
unique characteristics
unseals
variable-speeds
Vidigueira
viscosity stabiliser
xerophyta
zero-signal zone
zizeeria karsandra