时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.40]GECKO! GECKO!
[00:20.43]咕咚!咕咚!
[00:42.52]In downtown New York,
[00:44.19]at a somewhat trashy apartment,
[00:46.81]there lived a man named Howard.
[00:50.20]He was a young man, in his mid-twenties,
[00:53.83]and had a terrible fear of cockroaches 2.
[00:58.73]Well if you've been to New York,
[01:00.57]and maybe live or stayed in a rundown hotel,
[01:04.17]you know how many cockroaches there are.
[01:07.50]Too many to count!
[01:11.08]Howie had just come home from work
[01:13.87]and was looking for a bit of relaxation 3.
[01:17.55]All he wanted to do was get a bowl of ice cream,
[01:21.81]sit down and read the newspaper.
[01:25.27]He started raiding the messy cabinets
[01:28.60]and sink to look for a bowl and a spoon.
[01:32.63]He found the bowl, got out the ice cream
[01:35.61]and opened a drawer to get the spoon when, Surprise!!
[01:41.13]Out jumps a big juicy cockroach 1.
[01:44.38]After jumping twenty feet in the air
[01:47.06]and grabbing a spoon out of the drawer,
[01:50.11]he sat down to calm himself.
[01:52.82]"God forsaken 4 roaches!" he yelled,
[01:57.13]while slowing his heartbeat,
[01:59.09]just as another cockroach crawled between his feet.
[02:04.41]"There's got to be something I can do to get rid of them."
[02:08.64]Just then, as he was getting his ice cream
[02:12.26]and reading ads in the paper,
[02:14.76]one specific ad caught his eye.
[02:18.09]"Got Roaches? We have a solution!
[02:22.20]Come down to Sam's Pet Club today
[02:24.61]and get yourself the natural predator 5 of the roaches,
[02:29.48]a Gecko!"
[02:41.34]讲解
[04:41.95]In downtown New York,
[04:43.86]at a somewhat trashy apartment,
[04:46.39]there lived a man named Howard.
[04:58.21]He was a young man, in his mid-twenties,
[05:01.81]and had a terrible fear of cockroaches.
[05:12.31]Well if you've been to New York,
[05:14.15]and maybe live or stayed in a rundown hotel,
[05:17.75]you know how many cockroaches there are.
[05:21.16]Too many to count!
[05:36.98]Howie had just come home from work
[05:40.08]and was looking for a bit of relaxation.
[05:49.15]All he wanted to do was get a bowl of ice cream,
[05:53.31]sit down and read the newspaper.
[06:04.31]He started raiding the messy cabinets
[06:07.29]and sink to look for a bowl and a spoon.
[06:16.46]He found the bowl, got out the ice cream
[06:19.70]and opened a drawer to get the spoon when, Surprise!!
[06:33.97]Out jumps a big juicy cockroach.
[06:40.74]After jumping twenty feet in the air
[06:43.11]and grabbing a spoon out of the drawer,
[06:46.41]he sat down to calm himself.
[06:57.08]"God forsaken roaches!" he yelled,
[07:00.93]while slowing his heartbeat,
[07:02.95]just as another cockroach crawled between his feet.
[07:22.26]"There's got to be something I can do to get rid of them."
[07:29.64]Just then, as he was getting his ice cream
[07:33.14]and reading ads in the paper,
[07:35.69]one specific ad caught his eye.
[07:45.93]"Got Roaches? We have a solution!
[07:49.85]Come down to Sam's Pet Club today
[07:52.41]and get yourself the natural predator of the roaches,
[07:57.27]a Gecko!"
[08:21.24]语言点
[08:22.75]in one's mid-twenties
[08:28.86]mid-twenties
[08:31.47]twenties
[08:33.25]thirties / forties
[08:40.27]mid
[08:41.59]early / late
[08:49.11]too many to count
[08:51.75]too...to...
[09:15.85]come home from work
[09:23.08]get off work、ring out、off duty
[09:28.13]off from work、get off work、be off duty
[09:34.61]I will be off duty soon.
[09:39.33]When will you be off duty?
[09:50.78]谢谢收听

1 cockroach
n.蟑螂
  • A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
  • She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。
2 cockroaches
n.蟑螂( cockroach的名词复数 )
  • At night, the cockroaches filled the house with their rustlings. 夜里,屋里尽是蟑螂窸窸瑟瑟的声音。 来自辞典例句
  • It loves cockroaches, and can keep a house clear of these hated insects. 它们好食蟑螂,可以使住宅免除这些讨厌昆虫的骚扰。 来自百科语句
3 relaxation
n.松弛,放松;休息;消遣;娱乐
  • The minister has consistently opposed any relaxation in the law.部长一向反对法律上的任何放宽。
  • She listens to classical music for relaxation.她听古典音乐放松。
4 Forsaken
n.捕食其它动物的动物;捕食者
  • The final part of this chapter was devoted to a brief summary of predator species.本章最后部分简要总结了食肉动物。
  • Komodo dragon is the largest living lizard and a fearsome predator.科摩多龙是目前存在的最大蜥蜴,它是一种令人恐惧的捕食性动物。
学英语单词
agreed with
alternating-current characteristic
aluminium foil with paper backing
anasazis
Angarsk
arborinol
arising out
Asian influenza
bacteriological failure rate
balamwezi
bromosilane
bunco steerer
buttress screw-thread
candidulin
caseworks
CAT 6
Cerasus tomentosa Wall.
chill
chiridian
client-centered therapies
completed task
corrugated bulkhead
daisywheels
death under shield
demihumans
discretionary hyphen
diseuses
doeings
Donati's Comet
drill pipe sub
DYSOMMIDAE
electrotitration apparatus
filtering fiask
flower-gentle
gear graduetion
glycaemia
grand duchies
graviscalars
gullery
Gylling
hair crack(ing)
hauke
having got
high frequency buzzer
homomultimer
horse planter
industry associations
inferior concha
inure ... to
irreg
Jökuldalur
laser-energized detonation system
lepidium sativums
Lichtheim's disease
liminal contrast
Maksheyevo
malpitte
mid-infrared photodetector
mite
momentary power failure
Monte Alegre
moving load stress
myokymia
name of ship
Napoleonism
nescients
neutron diffract meter
nonpar
Nord-Jan
number of extra width
octennia
Omega navigator
orthotopic cardiac transplantation
out-of-pile loop
palatine sinus
paniculatin
photo-chlorination
point forward
polystyrene varnish
ponss
processed data
ptaquiloside
rate deviation
recirculated cooling water spray
route initiation circuit
short duration event
soigneer
sparkliest
spent fuel pip water pump
spontaneous generation
stansbury
static flip-flop register
sujood
supercontinents
tie-into
unsolve
vitriying clay
Wiman rule
without preconditions
yaw comparator
Zygaenidae