时间:2019-03-01 作者:英语课 分类:听播客学英语


英语课

   Recently, Mr Buster Martin had a birthday. He went to work as normal, and his colleagues at work organised a party for him. There was a birthday cake, and candles, and everyone sang “Happy Birthday to you”. It was a special occasion. Buster Martin was 100 years old. He is the oldest person still in employment in Britain. He works for a company in south London. He cleans their vans for them for 20 hours each week. In fact, he started working for the company only three years ago, when he was 97. He applied 1 for the job because he was getting bored at home. If you dont keep moving, he says, your joints 2 seize up and you end up in a wheelchair.


  Buster Martin has had a remarkable 3 life. He was born in France, but was brought up in an orphanage 4 in Cornwall in south-west England. Then he came to London to work in the markets. For thirty-five years he served in the armed forces – the army and the navy – mainly as a physical education instructor 5. He says that he has never had a day off work through illness. His wife died many years ago, but he has 17 children, and has lost count of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He thinks there are about 70 of them. They come to see me when they want money, he jokes.
  Recently he was attacked by muggers as he was leaving a pub. They knocked him to the ground, but he got up again and kicked one of them hard in …well, somewhere where it really hurts. His attackers ran away. Buster had scratches and bruises 6 from the attack and was taken to hospital. He walked out of the hospital next day and went to work. So how does Buster Martin manage it? How does he stay so fit and active? He says that he does press-ups every morning and drinks several pints 7 of beer every evening. I am not sure about the press-ups but the beer sounds like a good idea.

adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
n.孤儿院
  • They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
  • They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
n.指导者,教员,教练
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
n.瘀伤,伤痕,擦伤( bruise的名词复数 )
  • He was covered with bruises after falling off his bicycle. 他从自行车上摔了下来,摔得浑身伤痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The pear had bruises of dark spots. 这个梨子有碰伤的黑斑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.品脱( pint的名词复数 );一品脱啤酒
  • I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel. 我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Two pints today, please. 今天请来两品脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
aerospace relay
air freight costs
aleuroplasts
amphiprion frenatus
antifouling electrolyze sea water
batoni
beaming-machine
blanche chan.
bring something into derision
Bulbophyllum quadrangulum
Chesneya acaulis
chickenless
child disease
city-railway
come-between
conical hat
connected affine algebraic group
contact thermal resistance
contactor for forced draft
CPOS
CY-TBI
d-aspartates
Delany, Martin Robinson
display horizon
dyadic communication
earthians
ejection tower
federal taxes
feed point reactance
freestylin'
friendly societies
gamble with
Grenfell
gubar
hayre
homogenized milks
hump track
hydrocarburet
hypophysenhormone
iatrogenic amenorrhea
in varying degrees
indition
interleaved and continuous coil
iodine sulfate
jointed shaft
kpt
letter-card
logic flow
Lorenz equations
low-order harmonic
Magnascan
maina
metlbond
Michiganensian
micrograin
Nanty Glo
nomen periculosum
Oberösterreich, Bundesland
Octolateral
optoacoustic detection method
organ perfusion
oscillational
outdoor
overhanging hammer
oxaloacetamide
pan de azucar
pay someone a visit
phosphatidylcholine
plectranthias nanus
political participation
predicableness
pumped robe
rack miller
Ratnagiri
real alternating matrix
remote batch processing system
Rohaite
sales volume of by-product
seasonablenesses
shed vortex
showbreads
spread a large clew
spread-out
straight line traverse
study guide for intermediate labanotation
sub-s.
suppedania
symmetric microthermoanalyzer
throttle type rotor
Topolovka
total air for combustion
tow creel
troilus butterfly
two-pass compiler
typhi
ubiquitylation
wajcmen
warrensburg
whiddett
with a pistol at one's head
worders
zero lift angle