时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.99]Mister
[00:23.38]先生
[00:35.25]My mom looked in the directionI was pointing
[00:38.26]in time to see,
[00:40.47]two huge hairy legs step over the ledge 1 of the roof.
[00:44.39]That was all she needed to see,
[00:47.76]she picked me up turned around
[00:49.95]and started running for Mister's store.
[00:53.73]She didn't see the whole spider but I did.
[00:57.29]It was so big its body completely covered
[01:00.32]one of the windows on the side of the building.
[01:04.04]In addition it was headed diagonally toward us
[01:08.32]with amazing speed.
[01:10.98]Mom got into the store and locked the door behind her.
[01:15.38]Mister, was surprised,
[01:18.00]she would do this but could tell she was terrified.
[01:22.53]What's wrong Mrs. S, why are you so pale?
[01:26.97]My mother was primarily Spanish speaking.
[01:30.62]So what she said was,
[01:31.86]"This big black thing, it try to kill me and the baby!!"
[01:36.67]Mister was confused
[01:39.07]but he thought my mother was talking about a black man.
[01:43.00]He said, "Now Mrs. S. it's not nice to refer to people as things.
[01:47.92]But I will call the police."
[01:50.26]Mom said, "No people, no people,
[01:52.39]big black many legs, it kill, it kill!"
[01:57.02]Now while this confusing conversation is going on,
[02:02.05]I can see in my minds eye what the spider is doing
[02:06.18]and sense what it's thinking.
[02:08.89]It's thinking it can't come into the store,
[02:12.49]someone might actually see it.
[02:16.08]Usually, its intended victim can only see it.
[02:20.99]But for some reason it could not understand or explain,
[02:25.10]it knew I could see it and I should not have been able to.
[02:31.13]I had a psychic 2 link to my mom
[02:34.12]and despite the inconvenience of my ability to see it,
[02:39.13]the spider knew it had to complete its mission
[02:42.69]of killing 4 my mother.
[02:57.26]讲解
[04:42.67]语言点
[04:45.78]in addition  另外,也
[04:50.08]also / besides / as well
[04:53.43]They eat a great deal of fruit in addition.
[05:00.13]in addition to
[05:06.64]In addition to English, she learns Japanese.
[05:14.02]but  但是
[05:20.71]只是,仅仅
[05:23.09]only
[05:24.89]Hopes that lasted but a moment.
[05:32.86]It took her but a few days to learn it.
[05:39.46]should not have done
[05:56.73]We should not have watered the flowers so much.
[06:04.51]should have done  本该做,却没有做
[06:09.70]You should have come earlier.
[06:14.43]could
[06:16.25]could have done
[06:21.84]You could have caught the bus if you had got up earlier.
[06:30.72]despite  尽管
[06:33.48]in spite 3 of
[06:35.80]Won the game despite overwhelming 5 odds 6.
[06:57.53]My mom looked in the direction I was pointing
[07:00.37]in time to see,
[07:02.48]two huge hairy legs step over the ledge of the roof.
[07:06.63]That was all she needed to see,
[07:10.06]she picked me up turned around
[07:12.22]and started running for Mister's store.
[07:16.01]She didn't see the whole spider but I did.
[07:19.60]It was so big its body completely covered
[07:22.64]one of the windows on the side of the building.
[07:26.33]In addition it was headed diagonally toward us
[07:30.62]with amazing speed.
[07:33.32]Mom got into the store and locked the door behind her.
[07:37.28]Mister, was surprised,
[07:40.26]she would do this but could tell she was terrified.
[07:44.48]What's wrong Mrs. S, why are you so pale?
[07:49.01]My mother was primarily Spanish speaking.
[07:52.37]So what she said was,
[07:53.99]"This big black thing, it try to kill me and the baby!!"
[07:58.69]Mister was confused
[08:00.98]but he thought my mother was talking about a black man.
[08:05.37]He said, "Now Mrs. S. it's not nice to refer to people as things.
[08:10.33]But I will call the police."
[08:12.63]Mom said, "No people, no people,
[08:14.85]big black many legs, it kill, it kill!"
[08:19.57]Now while this confusing conversation is going on,
[08:24.36]I can see in my minds eye what the spider is doing
[08:28.52]and sense what it's thinking.
[08:31.36]It's thinking it can't come into the store,
[08:34.93]someone might actually see it.
[08:37.99]Usually, its intended victim can only see it.
[08:43.37]But for some reason it could not understand or explain,
[08:47.81]it knew I could see it and I should not have been able to.
[08:53.76]I had a psychic link to my mom
[08:56.42]and despite the inconvenience of my ability to see it,
[09:01.24]the spider knew it had to complete its mission
[09:05.01]of killing my mother.
[09:19.36]谢谢收听

1 ledge
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁
  • They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
  • Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上,摔倒了。
2 psychic
n.对超自然力敏感的人;adj.有超自然力的
  • Some people are said to have psychic powers.据说有些人有通灵的能力。
  • She claims to be psychic and to be able to foretell the future.她自称有特异功能,能预知未来。
3 spite
n.(用于短语)虽然,不顾,尽管
  • He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高,但思想观念却很入时。
  • In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气,说的话还是有节制的。
4 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
5 overwhelming
adj.势不可挡的,压倒的,无法抵抗的
  • The flood was overwhelming and the city was soon drowned.洪水来势凶猛,很快这个城市就被淹没了。
  • The act was adopted by an overwhelming majority.该法案以压倒多数通过。
6 odds
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
学英语单词
Aarhus
aculeate-serrate
alickadoo
anations
anatoles
ankylosaurs
Asian country
aspergillus puniceus
asymptotic perturbation theory
austral downs
average setup labor hours
aynhoes
azur-
baranof
blowout cock
bohringer
bomb calorimenter
Brandt's method
buty octadecanoate
by and large
cannach
canoes
canon of economics
carbon-lined mold
charge standard
climbing fern spore
co-counselling
conventional signal
crinosine
data exchange gateway
decoyer
deltaring
desqviews
digitoxigenins
diners
displase
draw ... attention to
employment rate
enteric nervous system
equaliform
error and omission insurance
F scan
filler thread
fissure of Bichat
flexure crystal
flower-head
goldstock
good rolling car
hamburg rules
hepatic colic
hobbitses
isopropane
jet holder
jorum
Kiselikha
labor standards law
lateral margin
Long Preston
lower cheek
Lucas's sign
Manastir
Manhattan cocktail
Meltzer's triad
multi-instruction signal data stream system
multiple regression
Möng Pan
Nizhneye
Notopterygium tenuifolium
notw
Now you're shouting.
omethoate
on-site measurement
Pastinaca sativa
pavlos
pinnation
plagioclase granite
pPT71
programmed gain control
remote transfer point
right satellite
sauvies
sheathes
silk screening
slangrill
sternochetus mangiferae (fabricius)
study carrel
superfibrination
tape card
tenebric
thalicsmidine
that will be the day
thylacinid
thymotinic aldehyde
time write interval
trip-trapped
truncated normal distribution
tuberculosis conclamata
tubuli renales
UNECLA
unicast
up-counter
wrought aluminium-silicon alloy series