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
ac-dc wattmeter
air to air fighter
allopatric form
apostatrice
audio disc
autodestructed
automated manufacturing system
automatic backup
axle journal grinder
bandersnatch
be attached
belgorod-dnestrovsky
bouteillenstein
cagewashes
cephalonis
clastic ejectamenta
cleviss
cloudbases
coult
counting detector
critical power ratio
cross staff
cultural contingency
DCN
debit-credit mechanism
declaration in course of duty
delivery of inputs
dentient
drawbar-pull
eco-efficiency
eda
ESP
eyelashes
facsimile signal simulator
flatter ribbon-like fibre
fusarium oxysporum sesami
Galichskaya Vozvyshennost'
geniculates
glow discharge sputtering
guardhouses
hadeed
implantodontist
incertainly
individual gap azimuth
Jacobi's theorem
K-K reaction
kaspers
kotoku-in
kou lan
late-gothic
life distribution
maletreats
microgaza katoi
NAND (not and)
Nige
nonpairing
Omišalj
pajocke
paraumbilical
perchloro methyl-mercaptan
phased array instrumentation radar
phosphonothiolic acid
physico - chemical properties
pike noise
pintle type fuel nozzle
polydioxanone
poor man's gout
pressure response factor
Prusice
reimpressed
resource subnet
robes
Rockefeller Republicans
sauce garden
scoring model
seatrain
sensitized fluoresence
shoot ... down in flames
shutter axis
silt dune
Sons of Freedom
spill current
standard wire gage
stretching
stromatoporous
tank surge
taxus brevifolias
TBY
temperature energy
third-base
toxic paraplegia
treffle
trouble-making
turn to sb
ventilating network
vermilion tubercle
weather-resistant varnish
wheretofore
wimping
wind tide
world heritage committee
Zimmermann's decoction