时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街基础英语


英语课

I’m standing 1 here at a petrol station on the main south coast road between Brighten 2 and Eastbourne in the County 3 of Sussex. It’s a very busy road; so many cars stop here to fill up with petrol. Let’s talk to a few of the customers. Let’s start off by talking to you, Sir. How much metering do you do a year? Not very much, just going to and from work. Do you have more than one car in you family? Yes my wife got a car as well, yes.
So do you find motoring expensive? I suppose it’s pretty expensive really. Yeah, but there again I again I suppose, if we went by train, you know, that’s probably a bit more actually. I would work out more.
Do you think that we ought to be encouraged to us public transport more? Oh, very much so, actually. Perhaps it makes it cheaper. Yeah, I’m very much in favor of subsidized public transport.
I mean I think really we will be better to keep cars off the road altogether. Thank you very much indeed. O, Thank you, Right.
And here’s the lady filling up her Nissan car. What do you like about this car? It’s easy to drive, and economical 4, easy to park because it’s small, and it got quite good.  
What about the driving on the road? What do you think the standard of drivers that you meet?
I actually only passed my text last Thursday, so I don’t really think …
Congratulations!
I don’t really think that I’m ready to criticize 5 other people yet.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, here’s a taxi driver, sir, you must do quite a lot of driving!
Yes, I do indeed.
How many miles do you reckon 6 you cover a week?
About seven…eight hundred miles.
What are the British drivers lie? Are we good drivers or bad drivers?
In a nutshell about 85% of them out here have got the IQ of a carrot and…
What can you say? I’ve come out here everyday and everyday somebody teaches me something else that they can so with a motor car that I wouldn’t have said it was possible.
Marvelous 7! Thank you very much!
You’re welcome.
Safe travelling to you!
Thank you! Bye-bye!



1 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 brighten
vt.使发亮,使开颜;vi.发光,发亮,生色
  • Brighten the kitchen by painting it yellow.给厨房涂上黄色,使它发亮。
  • She has brighten up my whole life.她给我的整个生活带来快乐。
3 county
n.县,郡
  • When the good news reached there,the whole county rejoiced.喜讯传到那里时,全县的人都欢欣鼓舞起来。
  • In that year county after county fell to the enemy.那一年一个又一个的县城沦入敌人手中。
4 economical
adj.节约的,节俭的;经济学的;经济上的
  • The state has paced the whole nation in the economical reform.这个州在经济改革中走在了全国的前列。
  • Coke is an economical fuel but it leaves a lot of ash.焦炭是一种很经济的燃料,可是燃烧后剩下很多灰。
5 criticize
vt.批评;批判,指责;评论,评价
  • Whenever you criticize him,he always has an excuse.你批评他,他总有说头儿。
  • You are free to criticize my work.你可以随意批评我的工作。
6 reckon
vt.计算,估计,认为;vi.计(算),判断,依靠
  • Don't reckon upon your relatives to help you out of trouble.不要指望你的亲戚会帮助你摆脱困境。
  • I reckon that he is rather too old to marry again.我认为他的年龄太大,不太适于再婚。
7 marvelous
adj.奇迹般的,惊人的,了不起的
  • It'seems to me a most marvelous book.这本书我觉得奥妙之至。
  • I congratulate you on this marvelous opportunity.恭喜你获得这样一个极好的机会。
学英语单词
(Robaxin)Methocarbamol
a. ophthalmica
aitcs
angular dispersion
antique-dealer
aureolarias
Banteay Chey
be mounted
bichats
bumper jar
butt-chin
cardiac disease in toxemia of pregnancy
cercis likiangensis chun
certificate of beneficial interest
Chang Kuo
changeless
chion-
colega
collie eye anomaly
component truss
comprehensive confirming house shipment policy
congenital retinal fold
contact insertion and withdrawal force
contractualises
deblending
design proposal
desklamps
desksize computer
diffuse choroidal sclerosis
disappear to
downward storke
dynamic discovery
earning related benefit
ensta
entergy
Erypin
essential enzyme
flat-topped ridge
flow dichroism
follower stud
four-legged friends
gailliard
gas seep
goes down the drain
golfdom
heavy tail
high pressure adjusting spring
hollow-point
home reservation
humariaceous
indicating potentiometer
ironless armature
isopia
jet channelling
kirchoff's law
metallocarboxypeptidase
micro-fiche
milky tea
mistaker
moity wool
multiplication of determimants
navigation system
NAVMEDATASERVCEN
neoprene sponge
nine-tracks
nodi lymphatici cervicales anteriores
oftmentioned
on maturity
on roder
osteohalisteresis
outer iteration
output of column
Pahārikhera
paramyoclonus multiplex
pda-based
perrutenate
personal supremacy
photoconductive thermal-plastic polymer material
phyllosticta amorphophalli
picoeukaryotes
plavacridin
polar positioning system
pterolophia lineatipennis
Putnam, Rufus
radioactive pericarditis
reckon sth up
Rhododendron noriakianum
ripeful
scintillatio albescens
self-ionization spectroscopy
stwe
Sulzbach an der Murr
swallow
Taitzehoia
technomic
trophic linkage
vascular glands
Viterbi decoder
vitriate
waltz turn
warns
wide-sense stationary random process