时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.64]The Coffee Cup
[00:23.30]神秘的咖啡杯
[00:32.03]Everyday, a half-empty cup of coffee was on that table
[00:36.68]when I opened and the chair was pulled back.
[00:40.60]I knew the restaurant manager inspected the dining room
[00:44.24]before locking up at night,
[00:46.76]so I believed the dinner crew when they denied leaving it.
[00:51.94]The only employee on duty at night
[00:54.83]was one of two graveyard 1 shift desk clerks,
[00:59.42]yet they both denied doing it
[01:02.43]and it really made no sense for them
[01:04.86]to leave the front desk unattended
[01:07.84]and risk being fired just to go through the hassle
[01:11.45]of unlocking 2 the dining room to sit in there
[01:14.37]and drink coffee at a back table
[01:17.06]when there was coffee and a television at the front desk.
[01:22.07]The hotel had no security guard,
[01:24.81]so that was not an available explanation either.
[01:28.64]Around the end of August,
[01:31.03]I again got to the dining room
[01:33.26]after the kitchen crew had turned on the kitchen lights.
[01:37.51]As I entered the dining room,
[01:39.54]I again saw the silhouette 3 of someone sitting at that table.
[01:44.74]I was not going to let the person escape again
[01:47.74]before finding out who it was,
[01:51.21]so without turning away to turn on the lights,
[01:55.10]I walked straight across the dining room
[01:57.84]toward where this person was seated.
[02:13.34]讲解
[03:40.33]Everyday, a half-empty cup of coffee was on that table
[03:44.88]when I opened and the chair was pulled back.
[03:57.15]I knew the restaurant manager inspected the dining room
[04:00.43]before locking up at night,
[04:03.10]so I believed the dinner crew when they denied leaving it.
[04:18.13]The only employee on duty at night
[04:21.03]was one of two graveyard shift desk clerks,
[04:30.43]yet they both denied doing it
[04:33.39]and it really made no sense for them
[04:35.76]to leave the front desk unattended
[04:38.72]and risk being fired just to go through the hassle
[04:42.45]of unlocking the dining room to sit in there
[04:45.45]and drink coffee at a back table
[04:48.12]when there was coffee and a television at the front desk.
[05:12.93]The hotel had no security guard,
[05:15.63]so that was not an available explanation either.
[05:24.76]Around the end of August,
[05:26.67]I again got to the dining room
[05:29.05]after the kitchen crew had turned on the kitchen lights.
[05:39.77]As I entered the dining room,
[05:41.51]I again saw the silhouette of someone sitting at that table.
[05:52.33]I was not going to let the person escape again
[05:55.26]before finding out who it was,
[06:03.43]so without turning away to turn on the lights,
[06:07.11]I walked straight across the dining room
[06:09.60]toward where this person was seated.
[06:34.98]语言点
[06:36.64]inspect  仔细检查
[06:42.72]look over carefully
[06:45.79]It was strange that nobody inspected my ticket
[06:49.22]before I got on the train.
[06:57.05]lock up  上锁
[07:00.98]It's not my job to lock up.
[07:06.46]lock  锁门
[07:10.90]Don't forget to lock the door.
[07:15.57]employee  雇员
[07:20.91]雇主  employer
[07:23.64]雇用  employ
[07:29.06]on duty  值班,当班
[07:33.23]off duty
[07:36.87]graveyard shift
[07:40.71]graveyard  坟地
[07:43.97]graveyard shift
[07:45.97]night shift
[07:50.07]desk clerk
[07:54.03]hotel receptionist
[07:58.06]make no sense
[08:15.25]This makes sense.
[08:18.85]This doesn't make any sense.
[08:22.25]risk being fired
[08:26.72]risk doing something
[08:29.85]go through the hassle to do something
[08:35.43]hassle  麻烦
[08:39.67]trouble
[08:41.77]security guard  保安
[08:45.44]escape  逃跑
[08:51.63]A lion has escaped from its cage.
[08:58.65]walk straight across
[09:02.74]be seated
[09:10.44]Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.
[09:23.00]谢谢收听

1 graveyard
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
2 unlocking
n.接通,开放,解锁v.开锁( unlock的现在分词 );开启;揭开;开着,解开
  • Unlocking DaVinci's Code separates the facts from the fiction. 《解开达西密码》将事实与小说区隔开来。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号
  • All of these questions will be answered on Unlocking DaVinci's Code. 这些问题将于《解开达文西密码》中一一解答。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号
3 silhouette
n.黑色半身侧面影,影子,轮廓;v.描绘成侧面影,照出影子来,仅仅显出轮廓
  • I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
  • I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。
学英语单词
abili-
alcippe brunnea
alcoholic(s)
balance b/d
battle bus
be sporty
behavio(u)r motive
bloodnoun
booth babes
C/CM3
characteristic of fluid
chemical vapor
cider-apple
Cinnamomum chingii
ciphony equipment
compassio
components and parts
construction level
corrosivenesses
deceners
dielectric slab
discursive practice
document on acceptance
Dondra
DPBS
dur-
enflurane
expugnative
financial industry
fixed dye
fundus vesicae urinariae
go to the bar
golden-beard penstemon
Gombi
Gonostegia matsudae
gravity value
grid-leak bias
hand-rearings
Harlech
helical cast
hellip
hepatoumbilical ligament
heterocyclic hydrocarbon
high-frequency iron dust core
highway mower
hourihan
index of singular point
international trading vessel
invacuate
lakes bulk carrier
lighting crew
mail box service
mandatory
march map
matroid
maulid
mesencephalic nucleus
migratory volume
mockups
mourningly
nitrogen degradation
Nixonian
nominal cash balance
optionalize
paging speakers
parlatoria proteus
passive countermeasure
penetrating graft
phosphorycholine
pithy core
pleni-tide
plundered fruit
poly (vinylene chloride)
porstirmdiation syndrome
post-tentioned prestressed concrete girder
powder metallurgy science
product layout of continous system
profile cutter
psychomotic therapy
pupa phanerocephalic substage
qalqiliya(kal kiliya)
reciprocal cell
repriever
saimaa
scavenging by blower
send for sb
sinistrogyric
solderless wrapped connection
sommage
speed drop adjusting device
spirocheta
Strachey, Lytton
strings along
tabletopped
texas long-leaved pine
the opposite number
three-dimensional television
tuberculigenous
veiling-glare
well-defended
zero base planning and budgeting