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。
学英语单词
a Pyrrhic victory
abandonment blasting
acachin
adder tube
adventitias
aerological diagram
aiwa
amicae curiae
autophagosomal
black-line print
Blutgernnungszeit
brown nosing
candling
cataclasites
cauldrons
caveat viator
centralized approach
compact slag
connecting vessels
controvertibly
coordinate grid scale
crome
density field
drainage and irrigation equipment
electromyogrphy
Engel curve analysis
euhedral cryatal
fail-safe stop motion sensing system
feeler bar
figure eight
final-years
fly the pit
folds-in
folk state
frankls
funeral church
gash-hole
genus Clathrus
glass bubbles
high-viscosity paint
hydraulic reinforcing bar straightening and cutting machine
ichthyism
IDSS
Indocalamus guangdongensis
input/output overlay
integral inner ring
jus distrahendi
knavinge
landowning
latents
left-hand page
Lindsay, Norman
make someone free
malinterdigitation
Manobond
Mather's plasma focus apparatus
meneghinite
mondoes
moralee
munida spilota
Ndwedwe
NIDM
Noir, I.
paved floor
perceptual motor coordination
Pete
pezograph
phyllopode
ponganis
quasisteady
Realp
retained deciduous teeth
retinal circulation time
rheological structure
rubinervis
sandburrowers
scap-
sclerenchymatous
selenostephanite
self-testimony
sensation-seeking
sentencehood
shakeshaft
shell breaking
shipments billed at cost
slope compensating device
stutte
switch handle
Terex glass
thujyl
tommasello
toolup
two-cycle coast
Ubbelohde melting point
undaunted
utriculofugal
wall thickness
wbca
wide-angle aerial camera
wing top
X-ray binary
yotaro