听播客学英语 285 情人节
时间：2019-02-19 作者：英语课 分类：听播客学英语
英语课
Tomorrow, 14 February, is Valentine’s Day. Saint Valentine is the patron saint of people in love. On Valentine’s Day, many people send a Valentine card to their boyfriend or girlfriend, or to their husband or wife. Sometimes people send Valentine cards anonymously 1, so that the person who receives the card has to guess who sent it. Some people even send several Valentine cards to different people, but this is a risky 2 strategy and I do not recommend it!
Before I tell you the rest of this story, I need to explain about a different sort of cards – playing cards. A pack of playing cards contains 52 cards; there are 4 different suits with 13 cards in each. There are two red suits called hearts and diamonds, and two black suits called clubs and spades. Hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades – these words have ordinary meanings in English as well as being the names of suits of cards. Look them up in a dictionary if you need to.
Back to Valentines Day. My wife is a teacher. Last week the children in her class made Valentine cards, and wrote a poem or a message inside the card. Some of the poems were, well, not very good. For example:
“Roses are red
Violets are blue
You’re not very pretty
But I love you!”
But one girl wrote:
“A relationship with a man is like a pack of cards.
You need a heart to love him with
A diamond to marry him with
A club to hit him with
And a spade to bury him with.”
An interesting thought!
The music is today is called My Irish Valentine by the Brobdingnagian Bards 3 and it comes to you from the Podsafe Music Network.
More romance in the next episode.
ad.用匿名的方式
- The manuscripts were submitted anonymously. 原稿是匿名送交的。
- Methods A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey 536 teachers anonymously. 方法采用自编“中小学教师职业压力问卷”对536名中小学教师进行无记名调查。
adj.有风险的，冒险的
- It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险，但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
- He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。