时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   Have you a dream? I mean, is there something that you would really like to do in your life – such as travelling round the world, or writing a best-selling novel, or climbing Mount Everest, or learning a new language. Good. It is important that we have dreams like these.


  But what would you do to achieve your dream. Would you, for example, walk out of your job so that you could do the thing you really want to do? Hmm. That might be difficult. How would you get the money you need to live on? And suppose you had a well-paid and very important job. Would you give that job up to pursue your dream?
  This morning’s newspapers tell us about someone who has done just that. His name is Paul Drayson. He is 47 years old. He started his career as a businessman, and he was very successful . He made a fortune as boss of a company which makes equipment for giving people medical injections without sticking a needle into them. Then he became interested in politics. He gave a lot of money to the Labour Party. The government made him a member of the House of Lords, which is the upper chamber 1 of the British parliament. (This means that he is now Lord Drayson, and not plain, ordinary Mr Drayson.) Then Lord Drayson became a minister in the government, at the Ministry 2 of Defence. He was responsible for buying equipment for the British armed forces. Both the government’s supporters and his opponents said that he was good at his job. He obviously had a bright political career ahead of him.
  But Lord Drayson had a dream. It was a dream about driving motorcars very fast. He bought a 6-litre Aston Martin racing 3 car. He drove it around race tracks. He competed in races; then he started to win some of the races, and this year he came third in the British GT championship. (The GT championships are for cars which are nearly the same as cars which you can drive on normal roads). People who know him say that, as a racing driver, Paul Drayson is both brave and intelligent. He is particularly interested in racing cars which run on bio-fuels, that is fuel which is made from plants like maize 4 instead of from crude oil.
  Personally, I think that motor racing is about as stupid a sport as golf; but I know that lots of people do not agree with me. I enjoyed reading the letter of resignation which Lord Drayson sent to the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. In the letter, he says that he has an opportunity to compete in motor races in the United States next year. This would be an important step towards his dream of winning the Le Mans 24 hour race in France. But he cannot do this and be a government minister at the same time. So he is resigning his job.
  Wouldn’t you like to write a letter like this to your boss?
  “Dear Boss, I have been offered an opportunity to go surfing in southern California next year, so I am resigning from my job as junior clerk in your office.”
  “Dear Boss, Although I have been very happy making burgers here at McDonalds, I am resigning in order to pursue my dream of being the first person to walk backwards 5 round the world.”

n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
n.玉米
  • There's a field planted with maize behind the house.房子后面有一块玉米地。
  • We can grow sorghum or maize on this plot.这块地可以种高粱或玉米。
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
学英语单词
add-ins available
allowable limit of vibration to human body
amay
bacteroides nodosus
biastigmatism
bishopries
book confirnation
Briggsia pinfaensis
bubble transfer switch
calculating scale
card spider
centerspread
cops her
corkscrew flowers
decension
denize
Distributed Network System
educational television
electronic magnification
erosion ramp
eustatic chart
externally operable part
ferrophytin
finished pieces
floors-to-ceiling
foldbelt
foot lifter
foot oil
form-fitting
Fort Hertz
generalized solution of Lagrange
genus Polyergus
girder framing into column
Goldscheider's test
grand inquest
hadite
hazees
homalonotids
in-kind subsidy
income budget
intermuscular bone
justitie
kinematic(al) parameter
kurons
lamel cathode
lamina of cricoid cartilage
lanternslide
largy
levien
licensing power
line-of-sight geometry
loading/unloading lot
maintenability
man-hour requirement
marbled cats
marine wiring accessoroies
mezzotint
miarolitic texture
morphotyping
mountains-and-waters painting
multiple strand rope
Nageotte cells
neatness
Neckereae
needfully
nodal processing delay
out of consideration for
pohlia wahlenbergii
pole-lathe
poynette
Primula cawdoriana
Préchacq-les-Bains
rate of transverse motion
red bed karst
relocation of track
resonance zone
return to work
Richter motor
rolling meadows
Saint Francis River
Saxonical
searching behavio(u)r
sending-end transformer
shoujo ai
singing
slight torn grain
sopras
stairway and passage way arrangement
suborder homopteras
Surigao del Sur, Prov.of
template gage
the politburo
the unknown
thread class
trade safe-guarding act
tumblers
ultrareliable modular computer
volume change
wefty
wide boys
working paper review
woz ere