听播客学英语 205 机器坏了
时间：2019-03-01 作者：英语课 分类：听播客学英语
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In our lives we have lots of machines and electrical equipment – things like cars and washing machines, video recorders and mobile 1 phones. Most of the time they work OK. But sometimes they do not. Today’s podcast is about the words we use when something does not work. No, not those sorts of words!. I mean the vocabulary we need to talk about things that don’t work.
So, imagine that you have a washing machine and it doesn’t work. There is water all over the floor and a smell of burnt rubber. What might you say?
The washing machine has broken
it has broken down
it is not working properly
it is not working at all
it won’t work
it won’t go
or, as people say in America, the washing machine is bust 2
.
So what do we do? The first step is :
to diagnose 3 the problem
or, in more normal speech, we find out what is wrong
Then we need to get the washing machine working again. We:
fix it
mend it
repair it
And if we cannot mend it ourselves:
we get someone to mend it for us
or, we get the washing machine repaired
OK? Everything clear?
Kevin and Joanne get into the car. They plan to drive to a nice pub 4 in the country for lunch. Kevin puts the key in the ignition and turns it. But the engine will not start. The car has broken down. It will not go. Kevin and Joanne get out. They look under the bonnet 5.
“It could be the carburettor,” says Kevin, “over here.”
“Kevin, that’s not the carburettor. Its the bottle with water for washing the windscreen,” says Joanne. “The carburettor is here.”
“Right”, says Kevin. “The trouble is, I don’t know how to repair it. What can we do?”
They get back into the car. “I know”, says Kevin. “I’ll get the AA man to come and fix it”.
“Kevin,” says Joanne, “are you sure there is petrol in the tank?”
“Of course I am sure, “says Kevin, looking at the fuel guage. “Oh no. Where’s the petrol can?”
Here is Miss Melissa Forbes. She has a friend with broken wings. Can you fix broken wings? No, I can’t fix broken wings either. Sorry, Melissa.
adj.可移动的，易变的，机动的；n.运动物体
- The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.那位老妇人每天上午坐在一把可携带使用的椅子上。
- She's much more mobile now that she's bought a car.自从她买了汽车后，活动量就大多了。
vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部
- I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
- She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。
vt.诊断，判断
- It provides a new method for early diagnose of breast cancer.为临床早期诊断乳腺癌提供一个新的检查手段。
- What more will you want to know to diagnose this problem?要弄清这个问题，你还需要知道些什么？
n.[英]旅馆，小店，酒馆
- He is the landlord of this pub.他是这家酒店的店主。
- They saw that four large men marched into the pub.他们看到四个彪形大汉走进了酒吧。
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