时间:2019-03-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Rob: Hello and welcome to Authentic 1 Real English with me, Rob…


Feifei: 还有我冯菲菲。Thanks for offering to drive me to the airport Rob.


Rob: No problem. It takes forever on the bus, so I thought I would save you some time.


Feifei: Thanks, but do you actually know the way to the airport?


Rob: Yes of course, why are you asking?


Feifei: It's just that we seem to be going round and round this roundabout. Rob 好像不知道去机场的路怎么走,我们在这个转盘已经转了老半天了。Rob, shouldn't you take that turning there?


Rob: No! That's where we just came from. Maybe it's this one… no, that can't be it.


Feifei: Rob! 我们这不是在原地兜圈子吗 – we are going round in circles!


Rob: Hmmm…


Feifei: We aren't getting anywhere! Come on Rob, I'm going to miss my flight.


Rob: Well done Feifei, you've just explained today's phrase – 'go round in circles' – although it's nothing to do with driving. If you do something for a long time without achieving any results and you always come back to the same problem, then you can describe the situation as 'going round in circles'.


Feifei: OK, 短语 go round in circles 的意思是花了很长时间去做一件事情,但仍是毫无进展,在原地兜圈子。Rob, it means you don't make any progress, right?


Rob: Yes that's right. Let's hear some examples while I decide which turning to take:


The politicians talked for hours but they couldn't come to an agreement; they were just going round in circles.


I've been going round in circles trying to find the right person to talk to about getting a refund 2 on my ticket but with no success. I give up!


Because we didn't have the data from the survey, we went round in circles discussing the same old problems.


Feifei: 那么 going round in circles 的意思也就是 not going anywhere, 没有任何进展 – and Rob, we are not getting anywhere today – and I need to get to the airport.


Rob: Ok, don't panic. It's definitely…err… this way.


Feifei: Careful!


Rob: Now you see, we're not going round in circles. We're going in the right direction… we're on the right road… we're making progress.


Feifei: 是的,我们终于找到了路,所以没有再继续原地打转了。


Rob: Oh no… hold on…


Feifei: What is it Rob?


Rob: Another roundabout! Which way now?


Feifei:你听我的吧,要想不 go round in circles, 最好还是坐公车!


Rob: Sorry Feifei. There's another flight tomorrow.


Both: Bye.



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abrupt deceleration vehicle
achromachia
apacked
Auricularia auricula
australian pitcher plants
Avast hauling!
bepuff
beslabbered
buffered filter paper
Bulgarevo
buoyancy curve
cadmium sulphide
Catalpa L.
chrysandiol
Congo floor maggot
DC electric propulsion plant
defilippis
ecomil
eelworms
egg-white protein
engineering geological classification of rock mass
engraftment
eusebia
Evangelista Torricelli
evasion error
exponential expansion
fallopiuss
field-sequential system
fight up to the last ditch
final-year
fotp
geard
get a cold reception
guide block
hangava
hansler
harbo(u)r operational zone
Hemitrichia
heteragraft
high velocity liquid jet machining
high-voltage glow tube
hormone culture-medium
hydnocarpus wightiana bl.
hytners
I fear
illtempered
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information given in a questionnaire
information retrieval system evaluation
initial steam admission
insoluble solides
irrigated soil
Kinnitty
Kolomonyi
lactic-acid
Lithocarpus
LVTR
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mesengium
microvoltmeter
monetizability
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Newry Canal
non-zero restriction
oil lubricating system
onishi
optic integrated circuit
pellet mouldings
PGS (program generation system)
plesiotrochus acutangulus
prepacked with grease
prevailing price
prunus mume sieb.et zucc.var.tonsa rehd.
prunus mume var.bungo mak.
purplestreak alstroemeria
rag out
residentiaries
reverse pinocytosis
rizzle
ruscombe
sample grid reference
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sandy mushrooms
secondary process
sent out
sound intensity decay
sprawlings
statistical weights
strapped multiresonator circuit
subfraction
Suttsu
the top of
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triangulation balloon
unconquering
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uredo cryptogrammes
Voidable Civil Act