时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:英语抢先学


英语课
Dear Mom,

  Can you imagine that I’m now in the United States, a country so different from China? Everything is new and interesting! I made some friends on the trip over and they have been very kind and helpful. Still, you know how much I miss you and your cooking? My mouth waters at the mere 1 thought of those delectable 2 Chinese dishes you prepare. Last night, my friends invited me to dinner. They had some strange ways of describing their hunger. For instance, there was“I’m starving to death”,“I’m famished 3”, and“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse”, which has a similar expression in Chinese; I’m sure you know the one. How about“I’m making a pig of myself”! A little confusing, hmm? Anyway, this stuff may be useful to you

  as an English teacher, so I’m also sending a tape. You can listen to our conversation and hear some real modern American English.

  Your loving daughter,

  Amber 4

  亲爱的妈妈:

  您能想象出,我在美国这样一个与中国有着种种不同的国家里是如何生活的吗?这里所有的事情都是那么新鲜有趣。我现在交了许多新朋友,他们人很好,给了我很多帮助。但是,我仍然想念您,想念您做的饭菜。一想到那些饭菜,我就忍不住要流口水。好在我有一些朋友,上星期他们邀请我去学校附近的一家餐馆吃了一顿,我发现他们形容饿的方法很有意思,我得花点时间去熟悉熟悉。比如如果觉得饿了,我一般会说:“I’m so hungry”。可是,他们有很多古怪的说法。像:“I’m starving to death.”“I’m famished.”等等。最有趣的一句是“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.”中文中有一句类似的话,我想您是知道的。还有一句话理解起来可能就有些困难了----“I’m making a pig of myself!”是不是有点糊涂了?不管怎么说,您在中国教英语,这些东西可能会有用。所以随信寄去一盘磁带,好让您听一听我们的交谈,了解一下“真正”的现代美国口语。

  您的女儿

  Amber


1 mere
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
2 delectable
adj.使人愉快的;美味的
  • What delectable food you cook!你做的食品真好吃!
  • But today the delectable seafood is no longer available in abundance.但是今天这种可口的海味已不再大量存在。
3 famished
adj.饥饿的
  • When's lunch?I'm famished!什么时候吃午饭?我饿得要死了!
  • My feet are now killing me and I'm absolutely famished.我的脚现在筋疲力尽,我绝对是极饿了。
4 amber
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
学英语单词
adenosine deaminase
All-optical switch
amplitude transmitter
atmosphere distillation
bammed
be lost
byte space
cargo-bay
combination-bar operating spring
complete character input
computer draft
Corn-soy-milk
covarimin
cruths
cup washer
damage correction
diallyl (o-)phthalate(DAP)
differential monitor
dioctylmethylenebisphosphonate
druggist rubber sundries
dry combustion chamber boiler
dupont test paper
eagleberger
eleven pointer
equina
exit turn
fast charging
feeler blade
field-conventicle
figaroes
folded and gathered
Gallipoli
gasdynamics of detonation
given notice
Grant's Tomb
ground shells
half-English
hammerhead crane
Harrier jump jet
Hastings, Battle of
hexagonia tenuis
high-speed automatic transmitter
indirect injection
inopportunist
introcession
iodosulfate
laryngeal chondromalacia
ligg. tarsometatarsea dorsalia
line intersection method
little-leaf symptom
loungerooms
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-,lst Baron Lytton
magnetically sensitive recording paper
magnetizing by induction
major synchronization point
materials account
military-planes
mohela
multiple threaded screw
Nepalese rupee
nosegay
number of locomotives in service
outer lacquered can
Overall Payments Agreement
Pabst Brewing Company
page ranking
pimco
pizza bone
plastic compression
predating
principal derivative
pseudomorph by infiltration
public savings
purse string suture
radar dish
Rakaca-patak
Reevesia orbicularifolia
Reichenfels
round ligament of bladder
sample recovery
sea colander
segmentalised
sense data
shatners
shingle block structure
siphunculate
sloughful
solsequium
Spongillan
sweeing
swingle-hand
telechelic polymer
true homing
tube expansion
unpolarizing
unruly child
UPU
valourous
verbalised
weight concentrated in the back
well-cared-fors