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.ilica externa
a.s.p.c.a
above the line
adaptive capacity
antibacteriolytic
away-days
betulifolia
blt
bromaniline
brooklets
c.f cost and freight price
Calitzdorp
capitals of greece
cast-me-down
cell connector
charnwoods
chestnut-brown
chloro-ethylation
close price
cold-drawing shop
colouration
command line arguments
compound pregnancy
constituent company
cortical osteitis
counter eleetrophoresis
crankshaft journal grinding machine
cravating
damage analysis
deconditioned
dispatch discharging only
doll up
Druckerian
Dubray-Howell perforation
economics of exploitation
electric manometer
electromagnetic-controlled automatic door
eogenetic
exchange settlement agreement
extreme value index
fenderless
Frances Lake
Gad's experiment cannula
garrulus glandarius taivanus
gaseous combustion
genus cercosporellas
Hammett's coefficient
hard formation
high voltage resistor
hypergene mineral
idle speed adjustment
improvabilities
inked tracing
instruct sb to do
International Goods regulations
Izard, Ralph
Juan Stuven, I.
laceability
Ladyzhynka
Lowrie Guyot
macrocnenia
mainlinings
marysse
master overhaul
Maxanka(Makhanka)
muscatines
noncentral distribution
null event
order gentianaless
overboard falls
parnara guttata
peer gynt
perrunoes
plane of delineation
preforks
premium-rate
pressure increasing valve
psomophagy
raise someone from the dead
reaction rate constant
recognizable pattern
rehm
sea lion
semiconductor electronics
serban
shread head
sigma notation
simple-chain
sixty-three
social norms
squamous bulb
street smart
suzhou industrial park
tazewell
third-party relay server
Thusy
thymus independent deficiency
torbays
true value
webtalk
wet by-products
woodworker