地道美语听力播客:Winter Weather
时间：2019-01-28 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
I grew up in Minnesota where the summers are hot and humid and winters are bitterly cold. Living in Los Angeles now, it's sometimes hard to describe to people how winter weather can be in chillier 1 climates. In L.A. most of the year, the weather is sunny , clear, and warm. In one of my favorite movies, LA Story, the weathercaster pre-recorded his weather forecasts because the weather was the same everyday!
Well, that's an exaggeration, because even in L.A., it can sometimes be quite cool in the winter and some areas around the beaches can have dense 2 fog and occasionally drizzling 3. But, that's nothing compared to Minnesota. In winter, they get snow flurries and blizzards 4, when as much as 3 feet of snow can fall. As I kid, I would build snowmen and make angels on the ground. That part was fun. But I also froze my buns off!
And, of course, one thing that Minnesota has a lot of in the wintertime is snow. Sometimes, we get so many inches of snow, we have to shovel 5 and plow 6 our way out of our houses. The worst is when there is freezing rain and sleet 7 and the roads are slippery . Needless to say, there are a lot of fender benders on the road with this kind of weather. Luckily, Minnesota doesn't get any hurricanes that far north, but other parts of the country are hard hit by those every year.
Well, I have to say that it's nice not to have to scrape ice off my windshield in the mornings, but I do miss the white Christmases.
- Something colder and chillier confronted him. 他正面临着某种更加寒冷、更加凄凉的东西。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
- The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
- The rain has almost stopped, it's just drizzling now. 雨几乎停了，现在只是在下毛毛雨。
- It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨，天气又冷又湿，令人难受。
- Even in the summertime we might be struck by blizzards. 甚至在夏天，我们也可能受到暴风雪的袭击。
- Blizzards battered Britain for the third day. 大风雪袭击英国已进入第三天。
- He was working with a pick and shovel.他在用镐和铲干活。
- He seized a shovel and set to.他拿起一把铲就干上了。
- At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
- We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后，我们将马上耕田。