时间:2019-03-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Todd: Phil, you said you're a teacher. Did you study education in college? 
Phil: No, actually, I studied engineering in college. 
Todd: Really. Engineer! 
Phil: Yeah, I was an automotive when I was younger. 
Todd: Automotive, like cars? 
Phil: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
 
Take the Interactive 
Audio Quiz 
(Flash Required)
Todd: Oh, cool. Wow. 
Phil: It was really interesting a job really exciting but I kind of came into teaching to try something different and to maybe gain confindence in myself as well. 
Todd: So if you're an engineer then you must like gadgets 1, right? 
Phil: Oh, yeah, I love gadgets. I got many in my room.
Todd: So what kind of gadgets to you have? 
Phil: Well, my favorite has to be my laptop computer of course. I think everyone should have a laptop now because it's complete entertainment. I can watch movies. I can download music from the internet. I can write reports on my students. I can research new games on the internet. I can do anything in the world on my laptop. It's just amazing what you can do. 
Todd: So you talk about downloading things. Like you must have an MP3 player or ipod. 
Phil: I've got an ipod as well, yeah. I love my ipod. Everyday I listen to music. Music is one of my main passions in life and I particularly like rock music and scar 2 punk as well, so I download bands from all over the world on the internet that maybe ten years ago nobody would have been able to find information about, so I think things like ipod have opened up the world of music to everyone. 
Todd: Right. Right No, I agree. Actually, I have an MP3 player and an ipod and I use them all the time. 
Phil: Yeah, it's amazing. 
Todd: So, you're really into your laptop. You're really into your ipod. Any other gadgets that you really like? 
Phil: I suppose I have to say my digital camera. When I was younger, I was absolutely useless at taking photographs - well I still am absolutely useless at taking photographs. I always manage to miss the main part of the picture or the thing I'm aiming for. Once I get the lighting 3 composition completely wrong. So with a digital camera, I can choose the photos I want and I can keep retaking them until I know I got the one I actually want, and then on my computer, back to my laptop again, I can edit 4 the photos until they look exactly like I want them to, so digital camera is amazing for me. 
Todd: Yeah, I agree, like I use cameras a lot for the website and I couldn't make it without them. 
Phil: Yeah, it's amazing how in the last ten years things have changed so much, like we said with the ipod earlier, I used to have a cassette player when I was younger. 
Todd: Right. 
Phil : It was huge, and it was like taking a brick with me everywhere I went, and not the ipod just fits in my pocket and I don't even know it's there. It's amazing the difference. 
Todd: Yeah, I listen to the podcasts on the way to work and it makes my train commute 5 so much more enjoyable. 
Phil: Yeah, yeah, I get the news from the BBC, the British website, so I can listen to the news in the morning and find out what's happened back in my home city. It's like keeping in touch with the rest of the world 
Todd : Right, right. OK, thanks a lot Phil. 
Phil: OK, thank you.

n.小机械,小器具( gadget的名词复数 )
  • Certainly. The idea is not to have a house full of gadgets. 当然。设想是房屋不再充满小配件。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • This meant more gadgets and more experiments. 这意味着要设计出更多的装置,做更多的实验。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
n.伤疤,伤痕,创伤
  • This scar is from the bite of a dog.这是狗咬后留下的伤疤。
  • The tragedy left a scar on her mind.这个悲剧给她造成精神上的创伤。
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
vt.编辑,校订,主编,编辑,剪辑(影片等)
  • You'll have to edit that tape,it's too long.那盘录音带太长,你得把它剪辑一下。
  • It is not yet decided who will edit it.由谁校订未决。
vi.乘车上下班;vt.减(刑);折合;n.上下班交通
  • I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
  • Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
学英语单词
american association for agriculture
anilinoformylhydrazine
arianism
beach ridge(fulls)
behave like
benz(e)indane
billiardist
blackout building
buttock lines
Calvin, John
cared nothing for
charge-control parameter
chiffon batiste
choke coil
chondrinosome
circular file
common dialog
convection type heater
credit note
declaration token
diffusion alloyed brass powder
dionisotti
diospyros embryopteris pers
double reverses
drilaster flavicollis
Dufreniberaunite
Dürbheim
earthscape
elastic-plastic solid
electromalux
elliptical tip-smaller radius
Ethniu
extruders
F. D. P.
female singer
flounciest
follers
frost hygrometer
gamma-quantum energy
Geisingen
goldbaum
good heartedness
heartiest
hemispherical absorptivity
heterosexualities
high frequency cable
hollow core rock bolt
Hourglass Nebula
interposition repair of aortic aneurysm
Jahaveh
keesling
kikkas
kleine regel
left common carotid artery
Long Cay
low-melting copper-soluble metal
macro symbol
mercuriuss
mexacarbate
modifier bit
multiple shock wave
nuclear isomer
oxonia
park type
Pedicularis dissecta
person sanctioned
pin rammer
polrvinyl
polycystic ovarian syndrome
preferential voting
prostatolithotomy
psychoplegia
purchase-money
rearraignment
retro-engine
rolling landside
Rubeho Mts.
rubhas
sandr
saw the point
seepage lake
shenfu decoction
Siegesbeckia orientalis L.
simulated load test
Sinclair Lewis
stand-by boat
stomatics
strap seam
stress-space
tananarivo
tangential tensile-strength
tays
Tenzing Norgay
trionychoid
Udova
unbreakable
unruggedized
ussful area
vaste
virilizing tumor
warerooms
zebroids