时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:19.38]Snake Anut
[00:25.65]我的阿姨是条蛇
[00:34.69]The old man longed for children.
[00:37.56]But he and his young wife had none,
[00:40.98]so he invited his nephew to live with them.
[00:45.81]This infuriated his wife, who had a vile 1 temper.
[00:50.94]When her husband welcomed the young man
[00:53.19]with great affection,
[00:55.04]she turned pale with jealousy 2.
[00:58.13]Her eyes narrowed and her head flattened 3.
[01:03.73]And when she licked her lips,
[01:05.72]her nephew saw that her tongue was forked.
[01:11.42]From that day on,
[01:13.14]the young man spent as much time as possible
[01:16.33]with his uncle and tried to avoid his aunt.
[01:20.53]But she seemed to enjoy startling him,
[01:24.33]suddenly appearing when he least expected her.
[01:29.95]One evening,
[01:31.62]the nephew returned to the house quite late.
[01:35.25]He lit a candle and started up the stairs.
[01:39.02]Halfway up,
[01:40.33]he tripped on what seemed to be a coiled rope.
[01:44.11]Imagine his horror when that rope uncoiled
[01:48.97]and slithered up the steps in front of him!
[01:52.91]Then he saw it glide 4 across the hall
[01:55.56]and under the door of his uncle's bedroom.
[01:59.49]"Wake up! Wake up" the young man shouted,
[02:02.82]and he knocked on the door until his knuckles 5 hurt.
[02:07.84]But when his sleepy uncle finally let him in the bedroom,
[02:11.63]there was no snake in sight.
[02:23.38]讲解
[04:15.59]The old man longed for children.
[04:18.39]But he and his young wife had none,
[04:29.41]so he invited his nephew to live with them.
[04:33.16]This infuriated his wife, who had a vile temper.
[04:45.71]When her husband welcomed the young man
[04:47.80]with great affection,
[04:49.76]she turned pale with jealousy.
[05:00.27]Her eyes narrowed and her head flattened.
[05:05.99]And when she licked her lips,
[05:08.02]her nephew saw that her tongue was forked.
[05:22.48]From that day on,
[05:24.25]the young man spent as much time as possible
[05:27.32]with his uncle and tried to avoid his aunt.
[05:40.85]But she seemed to enjoy startling him,
[05:44.63]suddenly appearing when he least expected her.
[05:59.52]One evening,
[06:01.22]the nephew returned to the house quite late.
[06:08.42]He lit a candle and started up the stairs.
[06:12.08]Halfway up,
[06:13.52]he tripped on what seemed to be a coiled rope.
[06:25.73]Imagine his horror when that rope uncoiled
[06:30.40]and slithered up the steps in front of him!
[06:43.02]Then he saw it glide across the hall
[06:45.60]and under the door of his uncle's bedroom.
[06:56.92]"Wake up! Wake up" the young man shouted,
[07:00.22]and he knocked on the door until his knuckles hurt.
[07:13.77]But when his sleepy uncle finally let him in the bedroom,
[07:17.77]there was no snake in sight.
[07:47.20]语言点
[07:49.17]long for sth  渴望
[07:54.80]eager for
[07:56.74]People are longing 6 for peace.
[08:02.04]turn pale with jealousy
[08:12.16]sleep with the window open
[08:17.88]as much time as possible
[08:22.58]do sth as...as possible
[08:30.83]do sth as soon as possible
[08:37.50]as...as
[08:54.79]As tall as you.
[08:59.33]across the hall
[09:02.83]across
[09:07.04]across the road
[09:09.57]across the river
[09:16.77]along the road
[09:19.07]wake up
[09:25.78]get up
[09:34.66]谢谢收听

1 vile
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的
  • Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢?
  • Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
2 jealousy
n.妒忌,嫉妒,猜忌
  • Some women have a disposition to jealousy.有些女人生性爱妒忌。
  • I can't support your jealousy any longer.我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。
3 flattened
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
4 glide
n./v.溜,滑行;(时间)消逝
  • We stood in silence watching the snake glide effortlessly.我们噤若寒蝉地站着,眼看那条蛇逍遥自在地游来游去。
  • So graceful was the ballerina that she just seemed to glide.那芭蕾舞女演员翩跹起舞,宛如滑翔。
5 knuckles
n.(指人)指关节( knuckle的名词复数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝v.(指人)指关节( knuckle的第三人称单数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝
  • He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. 他紧紧握住方向盘,握得指关节都变白了。
  • Her thin hands were twisted by swollen knuckles. 她那双纤手因肿大的指关节而变了形。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 longing
n.(for)渴望
  • Hearing the tune again sent waves of longing through her.再次听到那首曲子使她胸中充满了渴望。
  • His heart burned with longing for revenge.他心中燃烧着急欲复仇的怒火。
学英语单词
ancylopoietic
authoritative society
babblin'
bayonet connector
beforehand with the world
betweenane
brambled
bridewain
brussels sproutss
business reputation
buvette
certificate references
Chicago Bears
chien ch'i tui
cognitive malfunctioning
company officer
complayne
crab salad
double action comber
drill-jig
dropout time
dynamic CMOS
electricweld
factory engineer
fictious graticule
forced out
forwent
full crown
game plan
gas metal arc welding (gmaw)
gasoline gauge dial
gearing bronze alloys
geif
girth stick
gopalpur
growth of load
heedely
heterogeneous colours
historicalists
hydraulic efficiency servo
injection coefficient
international majors
journalbox
krymo-
laboratorium
Lake's pigment
Land Rehabilitation
language feature
launde iron
leitz pyndallometer
ligin
lovelify
low-tension winding
Mach regionwave
make hay while the sun shine
manual safety switch
mean climate characteristics
mohrs circle
molione triacantha
Montmorency, R.
mucogingival junction
multi-gyms
nasomanomete
needle position
New Sincerity
Odontognathae
ope
optical gyroscope
oracle set
orthopedist
osteoccllagenous fibers
overaggressions
portable lighting dimmer
prevailing rate of interest
promoters' shares
protofibril
Prāgpur
pseudoforce
rhodes grasses
ripsnoriting
Samosir, Pulau
saturation temperature effect
scleredemas
sector shaft module
skronked
spirocheturia
stationary grid
survivor guilt
synthetic pharmacochemistry
syringa wardii w.w. smith.
Tate Britain
termagancies
third order lamellae
three-dimensional sphere
toluquinone
TV telescope
voltage of microphonic effect
voltage of secondary field
wari
wnoes
Xylorhiza
Zr.