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
abn
all-moneys debenture
asset-purchase
atrophie noire
autolatina
baby boom
Bailey dilator
balers
be locked in
bespit
brouillon
bump-n'-grind
busy idleness
byte data
catch sb by surprise
characteristic derivative
charity boy/girl
charter flight
classification of track
clear lacquer
closed system of pipes
community citizen governance model
congestive cirrhosis
crankshaft torsional vibration damper
crolls
cross ... path
crystal caking
data-presentation device
dauto
distribution load center
doradoes
Eustachio, Bartolommeo
event logger protocol
Exminster
express gratitude for
extortionize
Fournier's disease
galloylbergenin
germbudine
golden pothos
Grossencharakter
Hexi Corridor
high-consumption
interest on inter branches accounts
juilland
Leontopodium microphyllum
linguistic approach to pattern recognition
LRMP
lumbrous
lynchings
Maclura
manorship
maritime buoyage system
mark-to-space transition
mass-producer
meropidaes
multiple dump processing
Musculus extensor
neurotoxic esterase
Norman Park
Odontoceti
orthogonal polarization
parainfluenzavirus
parial
POJ
preason
procedural capacity
profit and loss sharing ratio
pseudencephaly
pseudopionnotes
pulse compressive receiver
re-upholstery
recauterizations
right flexural artery
rufipes
saturated optical nonresonant emission spectroscopy
science and technology outputs statistics
set someone's mind at rest
single stall
singleout
splash proof machine
stakeman
stimulate economic growth
summer and winter
survival value
terrestrial planet
the senior
tower insulation
toweringly
transhyoidea
trumpet brass
tunnel alignment by laser
turtle bacillus
undeveloped
unfact
universal-joint pin and cotter
vendor composite rejection chart
walling board
wares
wear sth in one's heart
weight of covariant
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