时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:14.15]Roofer
[00:19.31]房顶工人
[00:31.61]I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building
[00:35.17]that had been periodically haunted
[00:37.88]by the specter of the upper half of a roofer
[00:41.07]who had fallen from the six story roof
[00:43.87]twenty years earlier.
[00:46.69]On the day of the 6.0 Whittier earthquakes of 1987
[00:52.41]I arrived at the building an hour earlier than usual
[00:56.17]and took the elevator to the top floor
[00:59.39]where the snack bar was located.
[01:03.04]After buying a cup of coffee from the dispenser
[01:06.24]I strolled out of the snack room
[01:08.43]onto the penthouse balcony
[01:10.26]to gaze over the lovely campus.
[01:13.78]Just as I was about to take a sip 1 of coffee
[01:16.87]the whole building jolted 2 upwards
[01:19.88]and nearly knocked me off balance.
[01:23.97]Thinking the short earthquake
[01:26.05]could be a precursor 3 to an even bigger earthquake,
[01:30.02]I turned to find my way to the stairwell.
[01:33.24]However, as I turned
[01:35.25]I was slammed to the tarmac so violently
[01:38.83]and swiftly that I had no time
[01:41.16]to break my fall with my hands.
[01:44.67]As I struggled to crawl towards the stairwell
[01:47.96]I felt a sharp jabbing pain of my left ankle.
[01:52.62]I descended 4 the stairs to the lobby
[01:55.07]and observed huge cracks in the corners
[01:58.18]and stumbled over chucks of plaster
[02:00.33]that had fallen onto the stairs.
[02:03.80]As I stumbled and limped through the lobby
[02:06.70]I encountered marble wall panels
[02:09.25]that had fallen and broken.
[02:19.57]讲解
[03:53.06]语言点
[03:56.06]periodically  周期性地,定期地
[04:00.34]periodical
[04:04.00]haunt  神鬼出没,闹鬼
[04:09.95]the upper half
[04:13.00]upper  上面的
[04:17.22]lower
[04:19.52]the upper class  上层社会
[04:22.46]the lower class  下层社会
[04:26.32]story  楼层
[04:29.56]故事,小说
[04:32.69]on the day of….
[04:38.34]on
[04:40.06]on September. 9th
[04:44.65]on the day I came to Beijing
[04:50.27]arrive at  到达
[04:54.52]get to / reach
[04:57.68]I arrived at/got to/reached New York last month.
[05:06.09]an hour earlier than usual
[05:10.77]than usual  比平时
[05:13.33]ten minutes later than usual
[05:18.51]take the elevator  乘电梯。电梯
[05:23.04]elevator
[05:25.30]lift
[05:27.59]snack bar  小吃店,快餐柜
[05:31.17]snack  小吃,快餐
[05:35.30]locate  位于,坐落于
[05:42.56]Our campus is located in the northwest of the city of Beijing.
[05:51.55]dispenser  自动售货机
[05:58.65]药剂师,配药员
[06:03.07]stroll  漫步、闲逛
[06:12.12]I met an old classmate when I was strolling along the street.
[06:21.23]gaze  凝视,盯
[06:25.86]gaze at somebody
[06:29.08]He likes to gaze at those pretty girls.
[06:35.00]be about to do something  即将做某事
[06:39.02]I was about to watch TV when the doorbell rang.
[06:47.41]a sip of  一小口
[06:50.56]knock somebody off balance
[06:56.07]off balance  失去平衡
[06:58.90]on balance  保持平衡
[07:02.19]a precursor to  …的先兆
[07:06.00]Lightning and thundering are usually precursors 5 to rainfalls.
[07:15.41]so…that…  太…以至于…
[07:19.68]It's so hot that all the people just want to stay at home.
[07:28.43]a sharp jabbing pain
[07:32.76]sharp  剧烈的、强烈的
[07:37.82]descend  下降
[07:42.74]ascend  上升
[07:47.53]broken
[07:48.70]break
[08:09.28]I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building
[08:13.14]that had been periodically haunted
[08:15.51]by the specter of the upper half of a roofer
[08:18.64]who had fallen from the six story roof
[08:21.49]twenty years earlier.
[08:24.29]On the day of the 6.0 Whittier earthquakes of 1987
[08:30.14]I arrived at the building an hour earlier than usual
[08:34.38]and took the elevator to the top floor
[08:37.11]where the snack bar was located.
[08:40.70]After buying a cup of coffee from the dispenser
[08:43.88]I strolled out of the snack room
[08:46.04]onto the penthouse balcony
[08:47.90]to gaze over the lovely campus.
[08:51.45]Just as I was about to take a sip of coffee
[08:54.65]the whole building jolted upwards
[08:57.44]and nearly knocked me off balance.
[09:01.65]Thinking the short earthquake
[09:03.74]could be a precursor to an even bigger earthquake,
[09:07.65]I turned to find my way to the stairwell.
[09:10.90]However, as I turned
[09:12.94]I was slammed to the tarmac so violently
[09:16.52]and swiftly that I had no time
[09:18.82]to break my fall with my hands.
[09:22.56]As I struggled to crawl towards the stairwell
[09:25.65]I felt a sharp jabbing pain of my left ankle.
[09:29.87]I descended the stairs to the lobby
[09:32.68]and observed huge cracks in the corners
[09:35.79]and stumbled over chucks of plaster
[09:38.01]that had fallen onto the stairs.
[09:41.46]As I stumbled and limped through the lobby
[09:44.38]I encountered marble wall panels
[09:46.86]that had fallen and broken.
[09:58.51]谢谢收听

1 sip
v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量
  • She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
  • Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。
2 jolted
(使)摇动, (使)震惊( jolt的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
  • She was jolted out of her reverie as the door opened. 门一开就把她从幻想中惊醒。
3 precursor
n.先驱者;前辈;前任;预兆;先兆
  • Error is often the precursor of what is correct.错误常常是正确的先导。
  • He said that the deal should not be seen as a precursor to a merger.他说该笔交易不应该被看作是合并的前兆。
4 descended
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
5 precursors
n.先驱( precursor的名词复数 );先行者;先兆;初期形式
  • Phenyl (or polyphenyl) substituted epoxides serve as excellent precursors to phenyl (or diphenyl) carbenes. 某些苯代(或多苯)环氧乙烷是制取带苯环(或二苯)碳烯的极好原料。 来自辞典例句
  • Note the presence of megakaryocytes, erythroid islands, and granulocytic precursors. 可见巨核细胞,红细胞岛和粒细胞前体细胞。 来自互联网
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a taco
admire the moon
airborne noise
allowance for discount available
amortized
analog - to - digital converter
Associate of Arts
automatic moulding unit
bacteriophagum dysentericum
benzylthiouracil
biasing transformator
blade-cooling system
boyards
bredeth
bridgehead server
budgeted for surplus
butyric acid fermentation
Bākarganj
calcanei
cappicola sausage
central plains
chiao fang y?eh pu
children with adhd
closing schedule
concrete monolith
convection of air
curd
dairy character
Dexameson
dismarry
dosserets
downbend
eche
echinodol
electric Spanish guitar
eskifjordhur (eski fjord )
estramustine
eyeliners
fake ... out
famiglietti
field examiner
fixed service satellite communication
flat sheet
fulsomenesses
Fænφ
G-flow
genus Apus
gingers
harness release actuator
hoc erat in votis
hose-downs
infrared absorption
infrastructure security layer
internally finned tube
it beats me
jet-turbine engine
kunzites
Les Epesses
lienomadullary
longitude zone
machine arrangement
match-girls
mesh cathode
monomial submodules
nail pigmentation
plastic component
pocket track
primary rna transcript
probability plot
programed flow chromatography
Provisional Frequency Board
pulsion diverticulum
raimondo
range of operation
rent control
rhizoid furrow
segmental block
shadow economy
shittah tree
silo cutter
sodium borosilicate
sound reinforcement
source management
spookily
ST_ability-and-experience_experts-and-specialists
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation
stolos
stumpnose
sulphaurates
surgical emphysema
testing hypothesis of curvilinear relationship
thromboplastid
TLNP
tube drawer
turnsheet
unicellular foamed plastic core
uniform target layer
void ex post facto
Weatherall
work well
yellow sand verbena
zero phase-sequence