时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.61]The Coffee Cup
[00:23.30]神秘的咖啡杯
[00:29.93]Just before the summer of 1977,
[00:33.67]I was hired as a busboy at a local hotel's restaurant.
[00:38.63]The hotel was only three years old
[00:41.28]and had been built on the site of another hotel
[00:44.26]that had burned down many years before.
[00:47.58]The hotel had a creek 1 that ran through the property.
[00:51.46]This town at one time had been a stopping point
[00:55.07]for people traveling west through Texas.
[00:58.20]It was fairy common for travelers
[01:00.69]to stop at this creek in the 1800's,
[01:04.28]and the town had been established due to this.
[01:07.57]I first was assigned to the evening dinner shift
[01:11.30]as I still was in school.
[01:13.39]When school was let out for the summer,
[01:16.01]I moved to the far more hectic 2 morning breakfast shift.
[01:20.20]The girl who opened the restaurant
[01:21.84]quit abruptly 3 one morning
[01:24.90](she literally 4 ran out yelling that she quit
[01:28.08]and was gone before anyone else arrived)
[01:31.82]so I was assigned to open the restaurant.
[01:35.33]This necessitated 5 me arriving at about 5:30
[01:39.48]in the morning to get the dining room set up
[01:42.47]and ready for the breakfast rush
[01:44.53]before the restaurant opened at 7:00.
[01:48.50]The rest of the dining room staff showed up at around 6:00.
[02:03.97]讲解
[03:37.55]Just before the summer of 1977,
[03:41.00]I was hired as a busboy at a local hotel's restaurant.
[03:55.09]The hotel was only three years old
[03:57.47]and had been built on the site of another hotel
[04:00.58]that had burned down many years before.
[04:11.60]The hotel had a creek that ran through the property.
[04:19.04]This town at one time had been a stopping point
[04:22.30]for people traveling west through Texas.
[04:35.10]It was fairy common for travelers
[04:37.83]to stop at this creek in the 1800's,
[04:41.54]and the town had been established due to this.
[04:55.17]I first was assigned to the evening dinner shift
[04:58.39]as I still was in school.
[05:07.08]When school was let out for the summer,
[05:09.17]I moved to the far more hectic morning breakfast shift.
[05:20.66]The girl who opened the restaurant
[05:22.33]quit abruptly one morning
[05:25.35](she literally ran out yelling that she quit
[05:28.49]and was gone before anyone else arrived)
[05:32.63]so I was assigned to open the restaurant.
[05:50.09]This necessitated me arriving at about 5:30
[05:54.17]in the morning to get the dining room set up
[05:57.16]and ready for the breakfast rush
[05:59.42]before the restaurant opened at 7:00.
[06:03.07]The rest of the dining room staff showed up at around 6:00.
[06:31.34]语言点
[06:33.41]busboy
[06:43.43]waiter's assistant
[06:54.65]site  地点
[07:00.34]construction site
[07:03.04]burn down
[07:08.08]creek  小溪,小河
[07:15.68]up the creek
[07:20.44]I'll be up the creek if I don't pass this English test.
[07:30.07]due to  因为
[07:32.79]because of
[07:36.59]His successes were largely due to luck.
[07:43.05]be assigned to
[07:48.12]I can not believe
[07:49.58]I will be assigned to the marketing 6 department,
[07:52.46]...I know nothing about marketing.
[08:02.94]shift  轮班
[08:10.29]早班  morning shift
[08:12.97]午班  afternoon shift
[08:17.35]hectic  繁忙
[08:22.25]busy
[08:25.32]quit abruptly  突然辞职
[08:28.73]quit  辞职
[08:33.10]I've had enough, so I quit.
[08:39.87]quit doing something
[08:49.62]Can you quit smoking?
[08:54.47]Can you quit making noises?
[08:57.87]necessitate  使…成为必需
[09:05.29]It's an unpopular measure,
[09:07.40]but the situation necessitates 7 it.
[09:15.42]show up  出现
[09:25.17]谢谢收听

1 creek
n.小溪,小河,小湾
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
2 hectic
adj.肺病的;消耗热的;发热的;闹哄哄的
  • I spent a very hectic Sunday.我度过了一个忙乱的星期天。
  • The two days we spent there were enjoyable but hectic.我们在那里度过的两天愉快但闹哄哄的。
3 abruptly
adv.突然地,出其不意地
  • He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
  • I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。
4 literally
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
5 necessitated
使…成为必要,需要( necessitate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Recent financial scandals have necessitated changes in parliamentary procedures. 最近的金融丑闻使得议会程序必须改革。
  • No man is necessitated to do wrong. 没有人是被迫去作错事的。
6 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
7 necessitates
使…成为必要,需要( necessitate的第三人称单数 )
  • The increase in population necessitates a greater food supply. 人口的增加需要更多食物供应。
  • Your proposal necessitates borrowing money. 你的提议使借款成为必要。
学英语单词
a carreira
acid attack
air-glass reflection
aldosterone deficiency
amaxophobia
amount carried over
asynchronous logic
automatic meter reading system
bankrupt
barter agreement
battery ore
be weak on
bishopess
burnishing surface
caryophyllenol
CHBHA
civil-war
CM8222
Cobury bread
cognitive limits
coitus int.erruptus
common platform
decimal scale
diphosphorus
disintegration chain
displacement ferroelectrics
drum polletizing
dtb
ectopia lentis
eissero
enter into conversation with
F.I.A.S.
fecundly
fixed sash
fizzlings
freelore
fuster
gelisolifluction
ground-basses
Harrison 2, Benjamin
hole reaming
hop residue
Hornstorf
Hydrangea shaochingii
in-statest
indirect-measurement
inner reflector
interleukine
intra-atomic energy
Irish Republic
Jaggarnat
lactosylceramides
laminae spiralis secundaria
Lexus lane
Lindera limprichtii
lineo-normal distribution
Macht metal
mendication
mizuage
monodactyl
Morellin
multilepis
narcisms
nasal splint
Nemipterus
noelani
noiseuses
non-stimulated
not busy interrupt
oil pressure unit
Opie paradox
orthomitosis
pack-up kits
perspective projection
preheating process
quarternary alloy
radio resource control
refreshable
rockfill breakwater
scavenge trunk
set much by someone
shared main storage
sheafer
single loop servomechanism
Soranus
stylistic component
Syväri
Szarvas
tectomorphic texture
tettigoniid
thiodan
Thymus nervulosus
totalizing
toxicological detection
transport mean-free path
unflappability
unven
vibrating-reed amplifier
vinous tincture
Västernorrlands Län
well-behaved net
wood spurge