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。
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a type band
active recall
acultomancy
after-hours price
alloxanate
an appearance
anti-ladder band
arthralgia of extremities
back cone
be too big for one's trousers
birdwell
bombasing
calculated risk
charles drew
chemical set core
chlorodiella crispipleopa
clear solution
closed thermodynamic cycle
Coleonol
commeasures
concar
consumerlab.com
curtainraisers
customary's broker
cutting angle
derwentsides
direct optical amplification
doryphoros
early potatoes
eastaugh
electroacoustic response
Flensburg
fountain pen
French sleeve
full nelsons
fully equipped
get into trouble
great south b.
harris's segregator
heat insulation measures
Hegoma
Hexanoestrol
i-hal
in-core manipulator
incoordinately
inland taipan
intense source
jub
juro
loading waveguide
Longhurst-Hardy plankton recorder
lug piece
macroblock characterization program
manoeuvring safety
Maria Montesorri
metallic bridge
milometers
mix it
mmpp
morula funiculata
multi-arm
neimoidia
newspeople
nilvadipine
no status changed
nodd
nominal characteristic impedance
noncommutativeness
NP compound fertilizer
paperbark tree
paraskenia
petrochemical processing
Pluchea carolinensis
Porto Cesareo
powder packaging machine
principal stages of development of the embryo
produce evidence
projective rejection
radioelectret
ratio-test
recoil clip
resented
rhyoandesite
Safune
semantic differential
sequence of random variables
simple geometric index number
sleng
spirorbid
swing bell net
symmetrical cable communication
syngynia
tidal gage
to-wowe
tonin
toolsets
vision-based
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