时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   In the last podcast, I said that I would tell you how Birmingham did in their match against Aston Villa 1. Well, they lost 5-1. Sorry, Birmingham! Birmingham could still stay in the Premiership next season, but things are not looking good. The nail-biting continues.


  Now for our story today. It started on Thursday evening last week. People in the south-east of England noticed a strange smell in the air. It was not a pleasant smell. Rather, it was the smell of rotten 2 things, of manure 3 and sewage, mixed with the smell of traffic fumes 4. People started to complain – to the newspapers and TV stations, and to the weather forecasters at the Meteorological Office. What was it?
  Well, said the Meteorological Office, the cause of the Great Smell was this. There was a mass of cold, still air over northern Europe. There was low cloud and no wind. All sorts of smells and fumes – from industry and from farms, from traffic and from everyday life – had become trapped under the cloud. Then on Thursday, the cold air, and its smells, had moved westwards over southern England.
  “What?” said our newspapers. “You mean, it isn’t a good, healthy English smell. It’s a nasty 5 foreign smell.” And the newspapers started to run stories about how the smell was all the fault of the French, because we English always blame the French first whenever anything bad happens. However, it then became clear that the smell was coming, not from France, but from further north and east. So we started to blame the Germans and the Dutch, because we English always blame the Germans and the Dutch second whenever anything bad happens.
  The Meteorological Office tried to explain that the smell was not a threat to health, and that it would blow away in the next few days. But the newspapers did not want to listen. They were having too much fun blaming foreigners.
  The truth, of course, is this:
  1. there was nothing more interesting for the newspapers to report;
  2. people who live in towns get used to town smells, like traffic fumes and fast-food restaurants. They forget that there are country smells too, like the smell of manure being spread on fields.
  3. many newspapers forget that England too has serious pollution problems. Normally 6, the westerly winds carry our pollution over to other countries, so maybe it is fair that occasionally 7 other countries’ polluted air comes to us.
  And what can you learn from this story? First, remember that “smell” in English is a neutral 8 word. We can talk about nice smells and unpleasant smells. You can tell your girlfriend that her new perfume 9 smells lovely; and you can say that a pile of rotten rubbish smells horrible.
  Second, there are lots of other words that you can use instead of “smell”. A delicate 10, pleasant smell, like the smell of a flower, can be called a “scent”. “Aroma” is a neutral word like “smell” – there are pleasant aromas 11 (like dinner cooking in the kitchen) and unpleasant aromas. And a really nasty smell like the smell of sewage can be called a “stink” or a “stench”.
  So now you know lots of words to use if you ever want to talk about the smelly English.
  PS. I forgot – the word “odour” also means a smell, normally an unpleasant smell.

n.别墅,城郊小屋
  • We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
  • We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
adj.腐烂(朽)的;令人不愉快的;糟糕的
  • The book was pretty rotten.这本书糟透了。
  • Rotten eggs give off a bad smell.臭蛋散发出难闻的气味。
n.粪,肥,肥粒;vt.施肥
  • The farmers were distributing manure over the field.农民们正在田间施肥。
  • The farmers used manure to keep up the fertility of their land.农夫们用粪保持其土质的肥沃。
n.(强烈而刺激的)气味,气体
  • The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes. 我们孩子们的健康正受到排放出的废气的损害。
  • Exhaust fumes are bad for your health. 废气对健康有害。
adj.令人讨厌的,困难的,恶劣的,下流的
  • She got a nasty knock on the head when she fell.她跌倒时头部受到严重碰撞。
  • When this material burns,it flings off a nasty smell.这种物质燃烧时发出一股难闻的气味。
adv.正常地,通常地
  • I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
  • My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。
adv.偶然地;非经常地
  • He went on talking,occasionally wiping at his face with a towel.他继续说着,偶尔用毛巾擦一下脸。
  • I like playing football best,but occasionally I play table tennis,too.我最喜欢踢足球,偶尔也打打乒乓球。
adj.中立的,不偏不倚的;中性的
  • Behaviour is never culturally neutral.人的行为从来都受文化的影响。
  • They have maintained a consistently neutral stance.他们一直持中立态度。
n.香水(料,气);vt.使充满芳香;洒香水
  • The air was heavy with the perfume of the flower.空气中充满了花香。
  • Those roses perfume the whole garden.那些玫瑰花使满园飘香。
adj.巧妙的,敏感的;易损的,娇嫩的
  • Be careful with those wine cups — they are very delicate.当心那些酒杯—它们很容易碎。
  • The delicate handicraft works will not bear rough handling.精致的手工艺品经不起粗鲁的摆弄。
n.芳香( aroma的名词复数 );气味;风味;韵味
  • Intoxicating earth aromas induced lassitude and ethereal calm. 泥土的醉人的芳香叫人懒洋洋的,感到一种远离尘世的宁静。 来自辞典例句
  • Nose and elegant nose with attractive fruity, floral and citrus fruit aromas. 芳香:优雅、馥郁、迷人的柑橘属水果的果香及花的清香。 来自互联网
学英语单词
a strake
activated sludge filamentation bulking
adder accumulator
al faw (fao)
alkaline incrusted cystitis
apple jellies
B. & T.
bar disintegrator
baseball-card
be in favour
be no end fine
big-endian and little-endian
bolivian monetary units
boyis
camshaft gear drive
cap flashing
Cardium
cavetti
chinese calligraphy
claimants ledger
conversational report
crab winch
cutting over
delay mixing
deletes
demeurer
dhoruba
diatomaceous chert
double counterpoint in the twelfth
Dove Dale
energy-intensive technology
esc.
Ethershare
evaporable waste
Evenk
expendient
false reed
flour
forward current rating
genuflect
guardaba
hand driven generator
hattrick
heat exchange in sea
ice cream slab
indicine
individual cylinder
inhabited building distance
inherent opening time
ioderma
ko gaku (japan)
Kǒmdǒksan
mace butter
Madison River
mat matter
matrix gate
micro-code
monosyaptic reflex
multiple terminal
N-dimethylcyclohexaneethylamine
Nafrine
nuclear magnetic resonance computerized tomography
ordinal indicator
ordinary budget
Paleo-Siberian languages
Paneth and Hevesy method
passing shot
physik
pilot light burner
polyphenol-aldehyde fibre reinforcement
precompute
preferee
pry bars
Puricama
raphe of scrotum
rejoindure
roller cone
run-up brake
Salix microphyta
salmorejo
salvage group
scammoniae resina
scummers
semibatch selectivity
Serangoon, Pulau
Sitosterln
slamkins
sphinx-likest
sulfhydryl compound
super typhoon
taxable base
transfrontal orbitotomy
trial at nisi prius
triphenylguanidine
ultraviolet absorber fixative
unique array
unsupportively
vertical sliding window
vessel detection
virusin
yellow-orange leaf