时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Gabby: Another birthday! I’m going to stop celebrating. What’s there to celebrate – getting old and decrepit 1?



Cherif: Are you kidding me? We’re in the prime of our lives. Who’s decrepit? I’m not.



Gabby: If I’m in my prime, then why do I feel so middle age?



Cherif: It’s a matter of perspective. It’s true that we’re not spring chickens anymore, but who wants all of the angst of youth? Not me. I like living these mature years without the insecurity and uncertainty 2 of youth.



Gabby: It’s not that. I don’t miss the awkwardness of my teenage years, and I definitely don’t miss the struggles I had to go through in my 20s. What I miss is the excitement of seeing and experiencing things for the first time. If I’m nostalgic, then I’m nostalgic for the innocence 3 of youth.



Cherif: Come on. There’s nothing stopping you from seeing and trying new things now. Don’t tell me that you’ve seen and done everything.



Gabby: No, I haven’t.



Cherif: Then you’ll come with me next Saturday, and I guarantee you a new experience.



Gabby: What new experience?



Cherif: Have you ever tried skydiving?



Gabby: No, I haven’t and I don’t plan to now. I may be old, but I’m not ready to kick the bucket yet!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



adj.衰老的,破旧的
  • The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.该影片是在一所破旧不堪的警察局里拍摄的。
  • A decrepit old man sat on a park bench.一个衰弱的老人坐在公园的长凳上。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
n.无罪;天真;无害
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
学英语单词
Actinosynnema
Agapetes neriifolia
antiperistasis
asomatognosis
away sector
bilskinir
boiler front plate
Bol'shaya Balakhnya
Bounkiling
bracket knee
bucked
centrifugal type supercharger
cling stone
closed-loop recycling system
conical refraction
continuous-loop economiser
conversion premium
daily accounting
date star cam jumper
depositionalcycle
dise
dissarray
ectoascus
egg-crate lens
electric power system reliability
eniacs
epithelitis
eregli (heraclea)
experimental analysis
female-tease
ferndale
floating hepatitis e-like virus (a similar virus of swine)
free-air
Freya Stark
friction-gear
gas sensitive element
gear form
genetic transplantation
goldfingers
heemraad
heterodichogamy
hexaphase turbogenerator
hireling scribbler
hydrogen warhead
inlists
interrupted shingle lay-up
jugular plate (or gular plate)
krmn
load proportioner
male union
massaro
microarcseconds
milton-bradley
Min of Ag
Morus australis Poir.
na'il
nut lathe
Nycticorax nycticorax
Nzuma
open-loop stable
parafascicular nucleus
Pentwater
people-watching
perf.
pericrocotus ethologus ethologus
personnel subsystem
Petrosimonia sibirica
phonates
powder starter
pregnenedione
prevention of error
pro test
program-controlled industrial robot
puchel
ready-printed account form
recognized standard
Rendell
reservoir hydraulics
residual rocks
Ronyl
rules for registration of companies
sales code
sipylite
spring ring joint
stable amplitude
stern port
subsonic performance
take action against
throw sb off balance
trichogrammatids
unaffiled
unidirectional couplet antenna
up-level addressing
valerone
vanadic salts
victress
volatile content of prepreg
vorticity dynamics
Wan-Hsien
wishfully
workspace pointer address