时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning English, I’m Neil.


Helen: 大家好,我是 Helen。


Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time, but you probably won't find in your dictionary.


Helen: 希望在今天的地道英语节目中,您能学到在书本里找不到的英语常用表达。


Neil: You know Mike?


Helen: Mike? Oh yeah, that guy who's always talking and sounds really confident.


Neil: Yeah him, He's really got the gift of the gab 1.


Helen: 我们说的这个人 Mike, 他说话特别自信。


Neil: In English we have an expression to describe someone like that. We say he's got the gift of the gab.


Helen: The gift of the gab. It means he speaks in a way that makes people want to listen to him. 这个短语的意思就是说这个人能说会道,而且他说的话大家都能听得进去。


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A: John's best-man speech was amazing.


B: I know, it was so funny. I could have listened to him for ages.


B:He's really got the gift of the gab!


Helen: So, what kind of people have the gift of the gab?


Neil: Well, a good salesman should have the gift of the gab.


Helen: Of course. 做销售的就应该有这种能说会道的能力。


Neil: TV presenters 3 have the gift of the gab.


Helen: 电视台的播音员也有 the gift of the gab.


Neil: And you have the gift of the gab too, Helen.


Helen: Me?


Neil: You’re a radio presenter 2!


Helen: Neil 觉得我也有 the gift of the gab 因为我也在电台工作。


Neil: That’s all we have time for today. Remember, to describe someone who speaks very confidently and in a way that makes you want to listen, we say they have the gift of the gab.


Helen: 如果我们想形容那些说话有很强的说服力的人,就可以用这个表达 have the gift of the gab.


Neil: To learn more Real English, go to our website www.bbcchina.com.cn.


Helen: www.bbcchina.com.cn. 今天的地道英语就到这儿。下次节目再见。


Neil: Bye!



v.空谈,唠叨,瞎扯;n.饶舌,多嘴,爱说话
  • The young man had got the gift of gab.那个年轻小贩能说会道。
  • She has the gift of the gab.她口才很好。
n.(电视、广播的)主持人,赠与者
  • Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。
n.节目主持人,演播员( presenter的名词复数 )
  • Each week presenters would put the case for their favourite candidate. 每个星期主持人推出他们最喜欢的候选人。 来自互联网
  • Karaoke was set up to allowed presenters to sing on the stage. 宴会设有歌唱舞台,可让出席者大演唱功。 来自互联网
学英语单词
acetabuliform
acrylic acid methyl ester
air atomizer
air-vet
amending
amicus curiae
anticonscription
antiexclusion
association by similarity
average filling losses
baby steps
be obliged to
besing
biliverdins
blennorrhinia
boss it
Brussels nomenclature
cascode circuit
cast iron sinker
ceats
centre of compression
charles augustin de coulombs
cimeter
city subdivision
Clifford Odets
commonplaced
compound trial balance
concentrator level
convertible stock
cyclic salt
design baseline
economic-forecasting
excavating shaft
fire rainbow
forestallers
Full Ratchet
gallivan
giubilo
glutamyl cystcine
hartopp
high speed rewind
hyper-pre-beta-lipoproteinemia
Immunorex
in the case
informatising
Krukenberg's arm
kurskite (carbonate fluorapatite)
level of supply
lib'ral
light intensity medium (lim)
look out
mapps
marginal productivity of wages
meio-
minimum discernible signal (mds)
murio
Nelson County
nonclaimed
nunda
offset mounted plow
orifice of mouth
Otobain
otohemineurasthenia
palmar flexion
panlogical
parafoil
particulate organic nitrogen (pon)
pattern density
peapods
ping-ponging
Populus violascens
prearranging
progressive burning charge
resaddles
right semilinear mapping
Salvia schizocalyx
sclerotic ossicles
scooping
shockresistant
small tropic range
special crop
splenitises
stand offish
subcarrier comparison
temporary tebular display
thermoelectric equivalent
time division data link
transonic flight
twelve-notes scale
two-stage agitation
Tyikhoy
Urocystis cepulae
vantrauth
visco-elastic deformation
vrak
wealth-creators
weeker
wet flash-over voltage
wet reflux
Widford
yellow-throated warbler
Yules