时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:创新英语教程第二册


英语课
[00:04.70]2  While you read
[00:10.66]1.The white van
[00:15.70]The typical white van driver
[00:19.67]is usually in his twenties and makes deliveries 1 for a living.
[00:25.52]He only ever drivers in second gear 2 because (a)
[00:31.56]he's too lazy to change it and (b) because the van makes more noise that way!
[00:39.21]He is completely antisocial,whistling at women swearing at everyone else.
[00:46.05]and cutting in front of everybody when he drives.
[00:51.10]2.The second-hand 3 French car
[00:56.74]Typical drivers of anything old and French in the UK tend to be old hippies.
[01:04.78]who have Greenpeace and Save The Whales stickers in the windows.
[01:10.82]In the back of the car.
[01:14.27]there are always piles of old papers and bottles and clothes
[01:20.54]that they always mean to take to the recycling centre.
[01:25.50]but never quite seem to get round to!
[01:29.76]3.The customised saloon car
[01:34.51]The typical driver of this kind of car is still in his teens.
[01:41.46]tends to have terrible spots and has only just started shaving,
[01:47.83]but his parents have bought him a car.
[01:52.80]It may only be a pathetic 4 little Ford 5 Escort 6 or something like that,
[01:59.56]but he drivers it as if it's a Formula 7 One car,
[02:04.92]racing up and down the local high street with his friends.
[02:10.77]all of whom spend most of their time and money
[02:15.81]buying new lights and bigger wheels for their precious cars-
[02:21.37]which they call' motors'or my wheels'.
[02:27.25]4.The car  with tinted 8 windows
[02:32.11]There are some cars that you feel before you see.
[02:37.57]as the bass 9 from their car stereos 10 is so unbelievably loud
[02:44.52]that your windows start to shake
[02:48.78]and things fall from your shelves as they make their way up the road towards you.
[02:55.15]When you do finally see them.
[02:59.51]they're nearly always the same-BMWs or Mercedes.
[03:05.99]which are either open-topped or have tinted windows,
[03:11.45]and are driven by macho men wearing sunglasses.
[03:17.09]gold chains and designer sportswear.
[03:21.95]5.The big Harley Davidson
[03:26.63]The typical Harley rider is usually in his mid-forties.
[03:32.79]He's going bald and he's getting increasingly 11 fat.
[03:38.15]Women have stopped looking at him (if they ever did)
[03:43.71]He wakes up one morning and suddenly realises I'm going to diel!
[03:49.88]but instead of spending more time with his wife and kids.
[03:55.65]he buys a twenty-thousand-pound Harley Davidson-customised,of course-
[04:02.60]and then he rides around,desperately trying to pretend he's still young.
[04:08.84]Of course,he usually only goes round town at 30 kph.
[04:15.37]just in case he gets too excited and has a heart attack!
[04:20.83]6.The people carrier
[04:25.51]People carriers 12 are usually driven by middle-class mums,
[04:31.26]who use them to take their kids on their eight-minute drive to school.
[04:37.29]They tend to have a sticker in the back window saying Baby on Board!
[04:43.64]no matter how old the children are.The funny thing is,
[04:49.70]these kinds of drivers say that the only reason they drive their kids to school
[04:56.25]is because there are so many cars on the roads these days
[05:01.51]that they're worried their children would get hit by one if they let them walk!
[05:07.25]Comparatives and superlatives
[05:21.41]When do you want to eat,then?
[05:26.14]The sooner.the better,I'm starving.
[05:31.28]Where were you thinking of going?Did you have anywhere special in mind?
[05:37.53]Well,I was thinking of this place just round the corner,actually.
[05:43.69]it's one of the best places to eat in town,
[05:48.42]but it depends on how much you want to spend.It is quite expensive.
[05:54.98]Well,I'm a bit short of money at the moments.so the cheaper,the better,to be honest.
[06:02.14]OK.well,
[06:05.37]in that case.there's a nice little cafe on the other side of town we could go to,
[06:11.54]but we will have to get a bus.Is that going to take a long time.
[06:17.99]No.it shouldn't be too bad.There's a bus that goes straight there now.
[06:24.16]almost non-stop.It's much better than it used to be.
[06:29.43]You used to have to go a really roundabout way.
[06:34.61]OK.so shall we go,then?
[06:38.97]Yeah,Let me just get my things together and then we'll be off.
[06:44.82]Listening
[06:58.46]Journey 1
[07:01.93]Jimmie!Jimmie!
[07:05.69]Oh,there you are,Hi,How are you?
[07:11.86]Fine,fine,How're you?How was your journey?
[07:17.13]Terrible!Really,it was just awful!
[07:22.10]Really?Because you're here on time.Yeah,well,
[07:27.14]that wasn't the problem,It's actually quite a fast line.
[07:33.41]No.the thing was,it was just so crowded that I had to stand up all the way here.
[07:41.77]Oh,no,poor you.That's two hours,isn't it?
[07:47.51]Two and a half actually
[07:51.67]and it felt like much longer because I was stuck next to about seventy football fans
[07:59.03]all smoking and drinking and shouting at everyone who walked past.It was horrible.
[08:06.61]Oh,no.That must've been the big game that was on in Coventry today.
[08:12.77]Yeah,maybe.I didn't really ask them too much about which club they supported!
[08:20.22]Journey  2
[08:23.27]Oh,there you are!I was starting to get worried about you!
[08:30.72]I thought you might've missed the flight or something.
[08:35.87]How are you?Come in.Come in.
[08:40.41]No.no.We caught the flight OK,
[08:44.64]it was just that it was delayed by about two hours before take-off because of the weather.
[08:52.30]Oh,dear!Was it a bit of a bumpy 13 flight,then?
[08:57.47]Yeah,It was awful!I really thought we were going to crash at one point.
[09:03.82]Oh,no.I must say,I hate flying at the best of times,
[09:10.09]let alone when it gets like that.I know!
[09:14.95]Anywaywe got here in one piece,
[09:19.31]but then they managed to lose one of our bags somehow,so
[09:24.77]we had to wait around for an hour or so while they tried to locate it.
[09:30.51]And did they find it?Yeah-on board a flight to Peru!
[09:36.47]They're not going to be able to return it until Tuesday or Wednesday.they said!
[09:43.03]So how did you get from Gatwick to here?Did you get the train?
[09:50.11]No.we were so tired and fed up once we got in that we decided 14 to take a cab 15.
[09:57.55]It was fifty pounds.Does that sound about right?
[10:03.30]Fifty pounds?!That's twice the price it should've been.I'm afraid.
[10:10.35]I hope you got their number.


1 deliveries
投递( delivery的名词复数 ); [法律](正式)交付; 分娩; 表演
  • Deliveries of mail could be delayed because of cost-cutting. 由于削减成本,邮件的递送可能会延迟。
  • We have developed rapid order processing to expedite deliveries to customers. 我们已创造了快速处理订单的方法以便迅速将货物送达顾客。
2 gear
n.齿轮,传动装置,设备,衣服;vt.使适应
  • We have to gear our lives to the new changes.我们必须使自己的生活适应新的变化。
  • The teeth of the wheel gear into each other.齿轮互相啮合。
3 second-hand
adj.用过的,旧的,二手的
  • I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.我赶巧在一家旧书店里买到这本书。
  • They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.他们将把这些旧货全部公开出售。
4 pathetic
adj.悲哀的,可怜的,感伤的,不足的,差强人意的
  • The animal gave a pathetic little whimper.这只动物低声哀叫,令人怜悯。
  • I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态。
5 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。
6 escort
n.护卫者,护送者;vt.护送,护卫
  • The prisoner was taken under escort to the jail.罪犯被押送到监狱。
  • Her escort to the party was a tall young man.陪同她参加晚会的是一位高个子男青年。
7 formula
n.公式;配方,外方;规则,一定的做法
  • His father is acting on his formula.他的父亲总是按他的原则办事。
  • Here are some applications of Taylor's formula.下面举例说明泰乐定理的应用。
8 tinted
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴
  • He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
  • The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。
9 stereos
立体声( stereo的名词复数 ); 立体声音响器材
  • Stereos have been the ordinary household products. 立体声音响装置已经成为普遍家庭用品。
  • What do you do when you're not buying stereos?Finance revolutions? 你不买音响的时候都干些什么?融资革命吗?
10 increasingly
adv.逐渐地,日益地,逐渐增加地
  • Rivers are being increasingly made use of by man. 河流正在日益为人类所利用。
  • I find it increasingly difficult to live within my income.我发现靠收入过日子越来越难了。
11 carriers
(自身不受感染而传播疾病的)带菌者( carrier的名词复数 ); (尤指经营空运的)运输公司; 搬运人; 军输车
  • Mosquitoes are carriers of disease. 蚊子是疾病的传播媒介。
  • The chair carriers arrived at the crack of dawn. 轿是一早就到了。
12 bumpy
adj.颠簸不平的,崎岖的
  • I think we've a bumpy road ahead of us.我觉得我们将要面临一段困难时期。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
13 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
14 cab
n.计程车,出租车,出租单马车;vi.乘出租马车
  • The cab drove over his legs.马车从他腿上碾过。
  • Shall we walk or take a cab?我们步行还是坐出租车?
学英语单词
adaptive behavior inventory
amazonias
apotheosizes
automatic lexical code
backcloths
banjo ukelele
be moved to tears
bipolar affective disorder
Bittou
black and white positive emulsion
blucks
bore rigging
bush beans
chiasmi
childsafe
chlorome
christian x
city banker
coal powder injection
coaxial stub
college english
contact clay treating
d-cystathionine
data analysis and classification
debatability
dedolomitization
dessertspoonful
destruction of turbulence
dip varnish
Dominici's tube
Eagle Peak
Eggesin
Eifelian Age
electronic jacquard interlock knitting machine
elementary wave
episcolecite
Erne, Lough
Eugeniusz
feel hard done by
fresh cracked gas
galactoglycosuria
genuant
genus haematoxylums
gnateaters
gronnd-itch
gross social production value
ground pines
high priced durable consumer goods
hydrothermal genesis
immune-response control
import duty risk
JIDA
Jumilla
laminated yoke
lashwise
line drawing display
liquid-vapor mixture
map plane
megacholedochus
melanostatins
methane carrier
micromaniacal delirium
money verdict
monosymmetry
net pattern
neutron shield plug
Northern Ireland
oil preparedness
on the bubble
order tracking date
orologists
other intangibles
out-of alignment
pale as a ghost
performance fees
pierglasses
positive displacement screw type compressor
precanceled
protour
pyritaceous
quenching form forging heat
rack panel
radzinowicz
raw edges
releyit
retinitis nyctalopia
South Fabius R.
stretcher course
taildragger
tapped hole
temporary custody
test event
traditional chinese realistic painting
troublesome
trypetomima formosina
twiste
tyninghame
unreactable naphthenes
Vicemycetin
wiping current
wish-wash