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
a priori theoretical economic creteria
Abishua
Aedes fuscus
age of hardening
aging voltage
air-mileage unit
alea
aluminium copper
aluminium ium ring pull end
ameliaroside
Amerindianism
at ... worst
blackened mirror
boccaro
Bourgelatia
buddy system for storage allocation
castes
centralized degassing system
cepas
Chaldea
choke out
Chāh Sandan
cleaning equipment
combining zone
commercial operator
compression perpendicular to grain
contemners
cornucoquimba tzouchii
decessit sine prole virile
densely packed multichannel communication
draft estimate of expenditure
drive division
emotional insanity
eosinophilic granuloma of chest wall
ETOPS
Etruscology
exchangeable aluminium
fanfarelike
federal jurisdiction
flexible sucker rod
hammer throwing
high added-value
high temperature performance
incoming trunk circuit
insect pathology
interstate commerce commission (icc)
Juliusburg
kazatskies
laminotomy knife
leaf protein concentrate
lettering joint
lieds
light marine glue
mailand
malpractice suit
mature timber
mecutic lactate
medakas
method of statistical survey
monocrystalline filament
Montanistic
n-nonanoic acid
network analogy
Nitra
nonconsumable goods
obliqueity
oil conditioning
phase shifting autotransformer
photographic spectrometry
Pionki
polypu
powas
rawdeal
retirement of bonds
ricoline
Rio de Janeiro, Protocol of
rosarito
Schepelmann's sign
school house
sheather
shifty behaviour
ship to ship
silentest
squatest
star junction
stauntonia chinensis dc.
Stmt.
stray-current
strong dual space
subacute combined sclerosis
tintypes
toyi
tubular atomizer
unanimity
unsteady feed
virus antigen
wastewater engineering
waveth
weight and balance
well-preserved
Wuqi Township
zoeal