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
2-amino-5-nitrophenol
a door plate
a FF
accessory fin
acuto-
Agar-slant
Akkul
allantois (or allantoic bladder)
benepe
Bosporus, Kingdom of the
branders
bromodeoxyuridine
byrds
case glass
character shape
class-member
coefficient of mass utilization
cosmic expansion
creation data
Currier and Ives
deep-sea plain
digital comparator
dum sola
ecorvs
electric conductor
electrode system of arc furnace
end tow sprinkling machine
explosion test ground
extened instruction
extra deep drawing
feel bad about
fixed brush
form for light-interception
formability
Fourth-World
fractional percolation
frame-to-frame response
galactorrheas
galanga
Galium boreale
geographics
grate funnel
gris gris
haematoxylin
hand fid
Harper Town
hatchery pond
have one's hands tied
horeness
howl
inbreading
instrument voltage transformer
isometric plane
l'etat
L.C.Greek
level with someone
low power Schottky TTL
mansion Turkish bath
methylene creosote
momeik(m?ng mit)
Moray Firth
Mudipāra
multi-roll straightening machine
mulwine
no test force
oil squirt hole
output sampling
over-number
pain-relievings
pebble heater
peptizations
piedness
polers
praecoracoid
primitive stomach
protection transformer
Puccinia cinnamomi
Radusa
repairing of vacuum leak
Rexed lamina
root tips of mature embryos
saferstein
safflower oil
Sdain
see off someone
silicon switch transistor
silver glance (argentite)
songjiang
stability-pact
Stokvis
subsectional
table design
Tainia
tensile member
training program
transition metal element
trinitrophenyl-hydrazine
two-dimensional optical radar
useful species
warp dressing agent MVAc
weol
white whales