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 pair of colours
adjoining sheets
amnemonic aphasia
anisothermal diagram
annular crucible
arundells
astun
australis surora
balance oscillator
blanket washing machine
branchiostegal ray
brevipetala
capelongo (folgares)
Cassia nodosa
clathrinid
clithon oualaniensis
cnc milling machine
cocoa tree
colloquial speech
component test facility
compression vacuum gauge
conioscinella opacifrons
controlled mine
dense element
diagnostic work
down-draw process
draf
eat well
error of the second type
ewes produce twins
family carabidaes
FMCG
fonge
for-sure
fructus xanthoxyli
glassy tuff
government-organized
guarantor employment status
hand pressure condensation
have the ability to do sth
heave a ship apeak
high-frequency induction coil
high-voltage pulser
hollinshead
horn gap switch
Hugh Capet
hull structure similar model
inherent nature of commodity
injury of elbow fascia
inspection charge
intensicon
Jenner,Sir William
joint snakes
kepi
litharch sere
Lossburg
Machanao, Mt.
melero
message entropy
mountain blacksnake
New Age Movement
orchiotomy
paper and board
patrocinations
pelvis aequabililer justo minor
pentadecylene dicarboxylic acid
periodic file
phenyl-dihydroquinazoline tannate
pius i
popcorn balls
potentiometric wheel
ppkis
preference-field index number
protein glycation
radar rainfall integrator
reencourages
refudiated
relation of market supply and demand
responsibilized
run across sth
russell-simmons
sabelline
sara crewe
scarlet toxin
shit-stirrers
siphon recording barometer
sir jack hobbss
siskind
sour odour
spool flange
stuprum
subsectional
Talidine
tempilaq
tissue roentgen
tocandiras
tongguansan
truncatella amaniensis
urnsful
warrioress
wave selector
weald-clay