时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:30.03]The House in the Field
[00:32.98]荒野小屋
[00:43.32]She told this to her circle of friends,
[00:46.27]and some of us decided 1
[00:47.67]to check the place out the following day
[00:50.56](which was, fortunately, a Saturday).
[00:53.92]So, we met in the field at noon
[00:56.89]and tromped off to explore.
[00:59.55]What we found there
[01:00.77]was the typical old falling-apart farmhouse 2.
[01:04.81]Empty rooms (except for the equipment and such),
[01:09.26]creaky floorboards,
[01:11.08]and piles of wet shattered plaster,
[01:14.39]beer bottles, graffiti, and cigarette butts 3.
[01:18.93]Then we rounded the corner
[01:20.80]from the old living room to go upstairs,
[01:24.35]and each of us stopped dead in our tracks....
[01:28.77]There were no stairs.
[01:32.00]Apparently,
[01:33.10]the stairwell had collapsed 4 into the cellar long ago,
[01:37.12]leaving only a yawning opening 10 feet
[01:39.86]above a tangled 5 pile of old timbers
[01:42.66]on the cellar floor below.
[01:45.81]And yet, Candy had sworn she had seen someone
[01:49.11]walk by an upstairs window.
[01:52.29]We explored the house more completely,
[01:55.14]now being very careful
[01:57.17]since we knew just how bad off the place really was.
[02:02.78]We didn't find any second staircase,
[02:05.44]and there was no way to reach the second floor.
[02:09.66]Its a mystery that has remained unsolved,
[02:13.46]as in the middle of our exploration
[02:16.23]we heard the truck door slam outside,
[02:19.27]and we all beat a hasty retreat out the back
[02:22.44]so we wouldn't get caught trespassing 6.
[02:26.00]I don't know if it was a ghost she saw,
[02:29.45]or if it were someone
[02:31.40]who could climb like an orangutan,
[02:33.91]but it's all a moot 7 point now.
[02:36.99]That house was demolished 8 only one year later,
[02:41.01]and a nice shiny new modern split-level
[02:43.98]was erected 9 in its place.
[02:47.08]I wonder if the owners of that house
[02:49.34]have any late night visitors...
[02:57.58]讲解
[05:00.53]语言点
[05:03.20]go upstairs  上楼
[05:07.77]go downstairs
[05:09.80]each of us stopped dead in our tracks
[05:27.32]I was dead tired.
[05:31.90]apparently  显然地
[05:39.02]obviously
[05:41.36]leaving only a yawning...
[05:45.21]leaving
[05:57.23]opening 10 feet
[06:01.12]a tangled pile of old timbers
[06:06.22]on the cellar floor below
[06:15.92]walk by an upstairs window
[06:21.37]by  经过、通过
[06:25.06]beat a retreat  放弃、撤退
[06:45.63]She told this to her circle of friends,
[06:48.66]and some of us decided to
[06:50.13]check the place out the following day
[06:52.91](which was, fortunately, a Saturday).
[06:56.31]So, we met in the field at noon
[06:59.13]and tromped off to explore.
[07:01.91]What we found there
[07:03.12]was the typical old falling-apart farmhouse.
[07:07.23]Empty rooms (except for the equipment and such),
[07:11.67]creaky floorboards,
[07:13.31]and piles of wet shattered plaster,
[07:16.77]beer bottles, graffiti, and cigarette butts.
[07:21.30]Then we rounded the corner
[07:23.19]from the old living room to go upstairs,
[07:26.67]and each of us stopped dead in our tracks....
[07:31.82]There were no stairs.
[07:34.54]Apparently,
[07:35.70]the stairwell had collapsed into the cellar long ago,
[07:39.71]leaving only a yawning opening 10 feet
[07:42.52]above a tangled pile of old timbers
[07:45.23]on the cellar floor below.
[07:48.34]And yet, Candy had sworn she had seen someone
[07:51.66]walk by an upstairs window.
[07:54.92]We explored the house more completely,
[07:57.59]now being very careful
[07:59.97]since we knew just how bad off the place really was.
[08:05.46]We didn't find any second staircase,
[08:08.09]and there was no way to reach the second floor.
[08:11.69]Its a mystery that has remained unsolved,
[08:16.42]as in the middle of our exploration
[08:18.74]we heard the truck door slam outside,
[08:21.98]and we all beat a hasty retreat out the back
[08:25.03]so we wouldn't get caught trespassing.
[08:28.41]I don't know if it was a ghost she saw,
[08:31.95]or if it were someone
[08:33.80]who could climb like an orangutan,
[08:36.52]but it's all a moot point now.
[08:39.16]That house was demolished only one year later,
[08:43.18]and a nice shiny new modern split-level
[08:46.11]was erected in its place.
[08:49.37]I wonder if the owners of that house
[08:51.69]have any late night visitors...
[09:20.71]谢谢收听

1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 farmhouse
n.农场住宅(尤指主要住房)
  • We fell for the farmhouse as soon as we saw it.我们对那所农舍一见倾心。
  • We put up for the night at a farmhouse.我们在一间农舍投宿了一夜。
3 butts
笑柄( butt的名词复数 ); (武器或工具的)粗大的一端; 屁股; 烟蒂
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。
  • The house butts to a cemetery. 这所房子和墓地相连。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
5 tangled
[法]非法入侵
  • He told me I was trespassing on private land. 他说我在擅闯私人土地。
  • Don't come trespassing on my land again. 别再闯入我的地界了。
6 moot
v.提出;adj.未决议的;n.大会;辩论会
  • The question mooted in the board meeting is still a moot point.那个在董事会上提出讨论的问题仍未决的。
  • The oil versus nuclear equation is largely moot.石油和核能之间的关系还很有争议。
7 demolished
v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光
  • The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
  • They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来,为了不让拆除他们的房子,他们一直在进行最后的努力。
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