时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


英语课

College Student Meeting Employer   大学生初识雇主


选自电影:Scent 1 of a Woman 《女人香》


■ 大学生查理找了份兼职的工作,他应约来到雇主的住处,由于是第一次面试,见一位严肃的陌生人弗兰克上校,他拘谨得很,语无伦次,而上校却语气霸道,术语连篇。


单词通缉令
1. moron  n.低能儿;笨人
2. Lieutenant 2 n.原意中尉; 本文意为副级
3. line  n.前线
4. bust  vt.降低
5. idiot  n.白痴;极蠢之人
6. Christ  n.基督;救世王
7. senior n.大学高年级学生;毕业生
8. peddle  vi.挑卖;沿街叫卖
9. markup n.利润
10. commission  n.佣金
11. graduate  vi.定等级
12. espresso n.浓咖啡
13. indication n.象征;象征物
14. helmet  n.钢盔;盔;防护帽
15. debriefer n.采纳意见者
16. snag vt. 取得
17. G2 美国军队的间谍组织
18. chip n.薄片;碎片
19. community n.社区
20. misty 3 a.有雾的;湿润的


Charlie Simms: Sir?
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Don’t call me sir.
Charlie: I’m sorry, I mean Mr., Sir.
Slade: Oh, oh. We got a 1)moron here, is that it?
Charlie: No, Mr., that is Lieuten-ant, yes, sir. Lieu…
Slade: 2)Lieutenant Colonel. Twenty six years on the 3)line nobody ever 4)busted me four grades before. Get in here, you 5)idiot. Come a little closer, I want to get a better look at you. How’s your skin, son?
Charlie: My skin, sir?
Slade: Oh, for 6)Christ sake.
Charlie: I’m sorry I don’t…
Slade: Just call me Frank. Call me Mr. Slade, call me Colonel if you must, just don’t call me sir.
Charlie: Alright, Colonel.
Slade: Simms Charles, a 7)senior. You want student A exams.
Charlie: Ah, yes, I am.
Slade: Well, for student A read cook. Your father 8)peddles car telephones at a three hundred percent 9)markup. Your mother works on heavy 10)commission in a camera store, 11)graduated to it from 12)espresso machines. Ha, ha. What are you dying of some wasting disease?
Charlie: No, I’m, I’m right here.
Slade: I know exactly where your body is. What I’m looking for is some 13)indication of a brain. Too much football without a 14)helmet? Ha, Lyndon’s line on Jerry Ford 4, deputy 15)debriefer, Paris peace talks ’68. 16)Snagged the silver star and a silver bar. Threw me into 17)G2.
Charlie: G2?
Slade: Intelligence of which you have none. Where you from?
Charlie: Um, Gresham, Oregon, Colonel.
Slade: What does your daddy do in Gresham Oregon, hmm? Count wood 18)chips?
Charlie: Um, my stepfather and my mom run a 19)community store.
Slade: Oh, how convenient. What time they open?
Charlie: Five a.m.
Slade: Close?
Charlie: One a.m.
Slade: Hard workers. You got me all 20)misty eyed.


查理•希姆斯:长官?
弗兰克•斯莱德上校:别叫我长官。
查理:对不起,我的意思是先生,长官。
斯莱德:噢,哦,怎么来了个傻瓜,啊?
查理:不,先生,是中尉,是中尉……
斯莱德:中校。在前线26年,还没有人一下降我四级。进来,笨蛋。走近一点,我想好好看看你。孩子,你的皮肤怎么样?
查理:长官,我的皮肤?
斯莱德:噢,看在基督的份上。
查理:抱歉,我不……
斯莱德:就叫我弗兰克。叫我斯莱德先生,叫我上校,如果你一定要这样,别叫我长官。
查理:好的,上校。
斯莱德:希姆斯•查尔斯,四年级学生。A级学生的考分.
查理:啊,是的。
斯莱德:噢,A级学生读烹调的书。你父亲贩卖小车电话,有百分之三百的利润。你母亲在相机店工作,佣金丰厚,根据咖啡售卖机来定等级。哈哈,你快要死了吗,什么病让你日渐虚弱?
查理:不,我,我在这里。
斯莱德:我知道你的身体在哪里。我要找的是你大脑的预兆。不戴头盔玩太多的橄榄球?哈,林顿总统关于秘书长吉瑞•福特的话,68年的巴黎和平谈判。夺得银星肩章和银棒肩章。把我扔进军队G2间谍组。
查理:G2?
斯莱德:你根本没有那方面的才能。你老家哪里?
查理:噢,戈瑞仙姆,奥勒根,上校。
斯莱德:你父亲在戈瑞仙姆,奥勒根是干什么的?数木块?
查理:噢,我继父和母亲开了间社区小店。
斯莱德:太方便了。几点钟开张?
查理:早上5点。
斯莱德:打烊呢?
查理:凌晨1点。
斯莱德:工作很辛苦。你让我眼睛都湿了



1 scent
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉
  • The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
  • The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。
2 lieutenant
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
3 misty
adj.雾蒙蒙的,有雾的
  • He crossed over to the window to see if it was still misty.他走到窗户那儿,看看是不是还有雾霭。
  • The misty scene had a dreamy quality about it.雾景给人以梦幻般的感觉。
4 Ford
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
学英语单词
accession catalog
aircraft turbine
American aloe
amphidesmous
anti-twist
arbitrary phasing
Bac Son
balletti (italy)
barao de sao miguel
bathmotropic
BibleCard
blister furnace
calcium clay
cardiovascular radiology
caryatids
catecheses
Cernelavci
cerrone
Chaam
chest support for thoracoplasty
component dominant
connecting passage
connubiate
constant storage
corn lilies
corrugated plate intercepter
cylinder drier machine
decision steps
Dendroidea
DIF
down current
dust-presses
Elymus purpuraristatus
endorser, endorsor
evil results of evil doing
exposure logarithm
flush-stowing anchor
garsdale
genus Adiantum
gluttish
graphic formats
greatest designed distance
Guarnieri bodies
hard earned
helical cutting
Hemipilia henryi
hind drag box
Hirschsprung
hohler
homology-dependent gene silencing
Hoya kerrii
Humaita
hydrodynamical nomenclature
imf position
inventory calculation
Jew's ear
Kamitaira
latitude determination
lawn-care
Libmanan
Librax
local trip control
luminous sensitivity threshold
migration direction
miller moth
mononitrates
morecombe
multimediatize
Mustafa III
Myzorhynchus
negative quenching
non-fissionable
one way disc
orange horseshoe bat
organic load
pay-day junkie
pean
pharmacognostica
Phenpropamine
phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine
polydipsia
pressurages
pseudosquint
puccinia citrina
Punishment fits the crime.
rasamala
resurfice
rosa sertata rolfe
Sagittariuses
sintisone
Stabex
storage facilities
telebooth
three-terminal switch
time-output command
title-roles
unwanted response
upper bound expression
urge to
Veientines
xylene equivalent