时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街基础英语


英语课

Well, here I am, enjoying a delicious cappuccino at a fashionable 1 cafe in Brighton. As you can see, this place is very, uh…fashionable for all the…um…fashionable young people here in Brighton. I’m waiting here for Alan, for my husband Alan, so we can go shopping and buy him some winter clothes. And here he comes now.
So, did you get Alice?
No, she was out, damn 2 it!
Alice, by the way, is Alan’s ex-wife. They were married for fifteen years, and then she left him two years ago, for a… who did she go off with, honey? It was an Italian waiter, wasn’t it?
Look, I don’t thing I want you telling everyone about my private life.
Yeah, that was it. As I said, Alice left Alan two years age, for an Italian waiter. And he was fifteen years younger than her, too! People talked! You know how they are.
Will you stop it please, Deborah?
So after that, Alan and Alice divorced 3, of course. That was over two year’s ago. But he still calls her from time to time, I don’t really know why. In fact, he really calls her a lot; like just now, for instance 4. Even now that Alan and I are on vacation, on our honeymoon 5, Alan still calls Alice, nearly everyday.
That’s enough, Deborah! I wanted to talk to her about business, that’s all. As you know! Now can we please talk about something else! Ok, have you ordered anything?
Why of course. I have! I’ve been here for nearly an hour, I had a cappuccino.
Ok, I’ll go order a coffee and a sandwich, coffee, with milk, please, and a cheese sandwich! Yeah, at the table. Geez, what a day!
It hasn’t exactly been a great day for me.
And I’m still damn cold, too!
So you need to get some nice winter clothes, right?
Of course I do.
Ok, now, while you were back at the hotel, I sat here and just looked at some of the other guys. I got lots of ideas for your change of style.
What change of style?
Like, take a look at that guy over there.
What about him?
Well,  a guy like that has real style, know what I mean?
Why don’t you dress something like him, for instance?
Look, Deborah, I’m 20years older than him, and about 100 pounds heavier. How can I possibly dress like him?
It’s just an idea. That’s all.
So why don’t you dress something like her, then? That girl over there.
You want me to look like that? Is that what you would like? You want a young girl like her?
Well, of course, any guy would. I mean, that’s just normal.
You think its normal, on your honeymoon, to go looking at young girls?
But you looked at those other guys!
That was different! I was just interested in their clothes!
Ah, what’s the use? Geez, this is some vacation! Some honeymoon!
It started bad, and it gets worse every day. First we went on that damn pier 6, and I get sick. Then we went to that other place, where everything was 600 years old, and I got sick again. And we went to look for lunch, but we didn’t find anything which was OK by you, so, no lunch. Then what happened? Ohm yes, we went to have dinner with your friends sorry, to cook dinner for your friends, only they there, so we cooked something which I hate, which I can’t eat, so yeah, I cooked it, and then I put it down the toilet. So that was another great evening. Then we went for a walk, no, no, first we went for a long drive around all the freeways and roundabouts 7 in the south of England, and then we went for a walk, in the Devil 8’s Icebox or something only it was colder than an icebox…
So we came back here to buy some clothes. Only I can’t buy the clothes I want because I have no style, because I’m only some American from Pittsburgh, not some British lord 9 or Italian duke 10 or something. Geez.
Have you finished?
Yeah, I really think I have.
I don’t know how you can talk to me like that, Alan!
I bring you to England, I show you my favorite places, all these lovely, historic 11 places, and that’s all you can say! You haven’t said one nice thing about any place all that time. We’re been here! It’s always: "Geez, it’s so old,” or “Geez, it’s so small,” Where is the poetry in you, Alan? Maybe there isn’t any poetry in me, Deborah! Maybe I’m not want you think I am! Maybe you married the wrong guy!
And maybe you married the wrong woman! Why didn’t you stay with Alice? Why don’t you go back to her now?
Will you keep Alice out of this? And keep your voice down!
I know why you don’t go back to her! Because she won’t have you. Because she’s gotten herself someone else? That’s right, isn’t it?
I said, keep your voice down!
So you went and got someone else too, the first person you found just anyone and that was me!
You don’t really want me; you just wanted to hurt Alice.
Go on, say it, it’s true!
Ah, to hell 12 with it! It’s impossible to talk to you, Deborah!
I’m going!
Where to?
I don’t know! To play golf! Back to Pittsburgh!
To the devil!
Sorry about that. So that was my husband, Alan. Uh…I think he’s a little angry today. Well, uh…see you all later bye for now!



1 fashionable
adj.时髦的,上流社会的,流行的
  • She is moving in fashionable circles in New York.她活动于纽约上流社会之中。
  • We lunched in a fashionable restaurant.我们在一家上等的饭店吃午餐。
2 damn
int.该死,他妈的;vt.指责,贬斥,诅咒
  • Damn this useless typewriter!这台破打字机真该死!
  • I knew damn well what he was going to say.我非常清楚他要说什么。
3 divorced
adj.离婚的;分开的;不相干的;脱离的v.与…离婚(divorce的过去式和过去分词);分离;与某人离婚,判某人离婚
  • Apparently they are getting divorced soon. 看样子,他们很快就要离婚。
  • Many divorced men remarry and have second families. 许多离婚的男子再婚组成了新的家庭。
4 instance
n.例,例证,实例
  • Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗?
  • He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如,他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了!
5 honeymoon
n.蜜月(假期);vi.度蜜月
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
  • The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。
6 pier
n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱
  • The pier of the bridge has been so badly damaged that experts worry it is unable to bear weight.这座桥的桥桩破损厉害,专家担心它已不能负重。
  • The ship was making towards the pier.船正驶向码头。
7 roundabouts
roundabout的复数; 绕行路线,绕道,环状交叉路( roundabout的名词复数 )
  • What you gain on the swings you'll probably lose on the roundabouts. 有所得也可能有所失。
  • Higherearnings mean more tax, so it's all swings and roundabouts. 多挣钱就要多交税,有得有失。
8 devil
n.魔鬼,恶魔
  • It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.召鬼容易驱鬼难。
  • Susie,you're a determined little devil.苏茜,你真是个坚决的小家伙。
9 lord
n.上帝,主;主人,长官;君主,贵族
  • I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
  • How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊,竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾!
10 duke
n.公爵
  • His grandfather was a royal duke.他的祖父是王室公爵。
  • The duke was the king's most trusted adviser.公爵是国王最信赖的顾问。
11 historic
adj.历史上著名的,具有历史意义的
  • This is a historic occasion.这是具有重大历史意义的时刻。
  • We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。
12 hell
n.地狱,阴间;用以咒骂或表示愤怒,不满
  • It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
  • The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。
学英语单词
all-out effort
ammonia cooler
ampa
appointed member
Arouet
aseptic myocarditis of newborn
assquake
atomweight
bacchanalias
Ban Hai
be roses all the way
Beaujeu
blessed with
Buronzo
canalis carpalis
capsule assembly
Carex wawuensis
cigar-shaped
ciliopagurus strigatus
classification of waste
closing to meeting maneuver
court of common pleas
crossey
crowd-control
cuttlebones
cystosarcoma
degenerative myopia
diatectite
Diebougou
drum magnetic separator
duplex output
eliminate unemployment
empiric(al)
epilating forceps
fermiophobic
fine struction
flash one's eyes at
formate butyl
French Standard
game fishes
genus cairinas
geological structure
HDMI CEC
hearth plate
honours degree
idiolysin
idiopathic detrusor dyssynergia
imperia
inkfish
insatisfactorily
jus pascendi
keyword item
laser printers
man-machine interaction equipment
maximum bit rate
mistion
more replenishing soil moisture reserve
motion planning
motion-pictures
Nal detector
Nervus medianus
non-exclusion
non-linear molecule
nonulcerated
nyy
okwui
open end V-belt
passets
Phichit, Changwat
pick up and delivery service
pinch-faced
polygonometric network
prima donnas
quality bonus
radiation gasdynamics
reexhumation
replacement length
rubber paint
sadhanas
scissor-tailed
seen eye to eye
signal bridge
single-state recycle
slotted screen
snowmobiles
spam act
Spittal of Glenshee
spring of cylinder lubricator plunger
strip-searches
sudden cough
sufflations
supersonic particle sizer
surface of constant pressure
talipes calcaneus
termination and suspersion of contract
theory mapping
unsanctimonious
urnsful
user program status display
webtalk
wtb
xenotime