【英语趣味课堂】非洲的陆路旅行-African Safari
时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂
英语课
Jessica: Ashley, when you went to Kenya did you do a safari 1?
Ashley: Yes, it was incredible 2. Uh, we went of a five day safari. We were up every morning at 4:30 in the morning, um, to watch the animals and then we would have all day to kind of sit back and do nothing and then we'd go on another animal drive in the evening because that's when the animals are eating, so cause it's so hot in the day that they come out at dawn and dusk 3 to graze 4. It was incredible. When we first started out, we weren't even in the national park, we were on our way to the park, and we saw some zebras and we were screaming at our safari driver,"Stop! Stop! There's zebras! There's Zebras!" And he's like, "Uh!", he's like,"You'll be sick of zebras by the end" and we were so sure, like there was no way, we will never be sick of zebras. We will never be sick of zebras animals, it's just, it's just to foreign, to incredible to us, but by the end we were like,"Uh, another zebra" No, I'm kidding, I mean still, it was incredible. We saw just lions and the whole thing, giraffes. Uh, to see giraffes run. Their necks, are just this wave. It's beautiful, so beautiful.
Jessica: So were you most impressed with the giraffe or?
Ashley: No, probably the lions. I mean, their the king. Just, we saw thirty different lions. It was, it was something out of a fairly tale. It was incredible. We even saw, we didn't see them make a kill but we saw them eating a kill, which was quite disgusting, but it was incredible to watch because there was a male lion who was, I guess he had already eaten cause you know the men eat first and then they let their families eat, but there was another male, we were trying to figure out the dynamic 5 of it because he wouldn't, the one male was keeping the other one away and keeping him away so his cubs 6 could eat and they were kind of fighting, growling 7, I mean we were only ten feet away from them, not even that, like five feet. We were right there. It smelled cause it was a dead, I don't know, buffalo 8. It was gross 9. But it was incredible.
学习内容:
Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
five-day
We went on a five-day safari.
We use '# -day' to describe how long something will happen for. Notice the following:
We are going on a ten-day cruise 10 this year.
It is a three-day festival that we have in the fall.
up
We were up every morning at 4:30.
When you are 'up' you are awake. Notice the following:
Were you up when the alarm went off.
He is always up before everyone else.
sit back
We would have all day to kind of sit back and do nothing.
Used like this 'sit back' is very similar to relax and do nothing. Notice the following:
It's nice to be able to sit back for a while on the weekends.
I usually sit back and watch one television show when I get home from work.
keep away
One male lion was keeping another away, so his cubs could eat.
When you 'keep something away' you do not allow it to come close to you or other people or things. Notice the following:
It is a good idea to keep away from others if you are sick.
We don't like each other so I try to keep away from her.
gross
It was gross, because they were eating a dead buffalo.
'Gross' is an informal word for disgusting or something that makes us feel sick in our stomach. Notice the following:
It was really gross when I killed the bird with my car.
Not only did we wait for an hour at the restaurant, but the food was gross.
n.远征旅行(探险、考察);探险队,狩猎队
- When we go on safari we like to cook on an open fire.我们远行狩猎时,喜欢露天生火做饭。
- They went on safari searching for the rare black rhinoceros.他们进行探险旅行,搜寻那稀有的黑犀牛。
adj.难以置信的,不可信的,极好的,大量的
- Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
- Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。
n.薄暮,黄昏,幽暗
- The park closes at dusk.公园在黄昏时关闭。
- At dusk bats appear in vast numbers.蝙蝠于傍晚时分大批出现。
v.(牲畜)吃草;放牧;擦过(牲畜);n.擦伤
- There is good grassland here for your cattle and horses to graze on.这里有很好的草地供你们放牧牛马。
- Nothing serious.Just a graze.没关系,就破了一点皮。
adj.有活力的,能动的;力的;动力的
- This is a dynamic world.这是一个不断变化的世界。
- There is a dynamic ball in the computer.在电脑里有个动态的球。
n.幼小的兽,不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )
- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(北美)野牛;(亚洲)水牛
- Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
- The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。
adj.全部的,粗俗的,肥胖的;vt.获得...总收入
- The gross weight of the box of chocolates is 500 grams.那盒巧克力的全部重量是500克。
- I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。