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
a thorn in the flesh
active account
Adams, Maude
agencification
air car
akeelah
akhs
andaya
anfoteina
archegonial chamber
arrive at
Aseptatina
audio compression
Bioterciclin
business council
cam cutter
camp-stool
capillary-shear-induced orientation
catia
caustic steaming cargo tanks
chartered right
clinoenstenite
community-acquireds
cost absorption
current taxes
data control/security
days of normal stock
dekaradian
determine the case upon its merit
dictyocaulis viviparus
diplatinamine
Dutch sandwich
eicherly
enjera
equiaxed alpha phase
exposure amount measurement
faintly alkaline reaction
fargite
flexurally vibrating plate
glass constituent
gravity gasoline tank
hagersville
hemp cut lime mortar
industry supply curve
inglishes
invigilate
irresolvedly
kalma
kgs
kitega (gitega)
l'univers
LAN party
langhiranoes
lead someone a dog's life
leenders
lung being averse to cold
lushed
maternity-leave
mecodium exsertum copel.
metaxu
model similarity
musico
Nano-CMOS
necklets
nezara antennata
Niels Henrik David Bohr
non-powered
nypl
Ohiwa Harb.
operater-gene
oversweeps
paging activity indexes
paleobiospecies
Parakmeria omeiensis
potters about
prementioned
pure spectral color
put oneself forward
R/P
rabbeting
rectodelt
reinforced T-beam
rose robins
scissor-man
sheet mica
Siemens, Ernst Werner von
south sea islandss
step high
surface diagram
take it in turns
tanaholics
tanjung rambutan
tectoria
tractus vestibulocerebellaris
triangular ligament of uterus
underground watershed
vacation day
vaginalocentesis
vildrac
walketh
where-ever
yellow rust