时间:2018-12-14 作者:英语课 分类:纯正地道美语


英语课

  A: What are you doing, awake?

你在做什么呢,醒着吗?

B: I can't sleep...

我睡不着……

A: But it's almost midnight!

但是现在已经是午夜了!

B: Exactly. I'm too excited for Christmas morning. Also, I thought I heard Santa.

确实是。我想到就快要到圣诞的早晨了,我就很兴奋。还有,我以为我听到了圣诞老人来了。

A: Really? How do you know it was Santa?

真的吗?你怎么知道是圣诞老人的?

B: Well, I heard that naughty boys and girls get coal in their stockings 1, so I thought I'd be nice and make Santa cookies. I even left out some milk. I heard someone in the kitchen eating the cookies, so I came downstairs!

嗯,我听说那些调皮的孩子们在他们的袜子里有很多煤炭。所以我想如果给圣诞老人准备一些曲奇会比较好。我甚至还留了一些牛奶。我听到有人在厨房吃饼干,所以我刚刚下楼看了看!

A: Hmm... well I know that Santa won't come down the chimney 2 with you hiding behind the tree, spying 3 on him!

嗯……我知道圣诞老师不会在你躲在树后面想要偷看的时候从烟囱里下来。

B: Really?

真的吗?

A: Really! Let's go back upstairs and get back to bed. That way, we can let Santa do his job. Then when you wake up, it will be Christmas already!

真的!我们上楼去回到床上睡觉吧。这样的话,圣诞老人才能做他的事。然后等你醒来的时候,就已经是圣诞节了。

B: O-K...

好吧……

A: Hey, honey! Is that you? Don't eat all the cookies—I want some, too!

嘿,宝贝!是你吗?不要把曲奇都吃了,我也想吃点!



1 stockings
n.长袜( stocking的名词复数 );靺;袜子
  • a pair of silk stockings 一双长筒丝袜
  • She wears a pair of sheer stockings. 她穿着一双透明的丝袜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 chimney
n.烟囱,烟筒;玻璃罩
  • The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.烟囱里喷出一团黑烟。
  • His father is a chimney sweeper.他的父亲是一位扫烟囱的工人。
3 spying
v.看见,发现( spy的现在分词 );当间谍;从事间谍活动;搜集情报
  • He used his job as a screen for his spying activities. 他利用他的工作作掩护进行间谍活动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He was accused of spying and was declared non grata. 他被指控从事间谍活动而被宣布为不受欢迎。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
学英语单词
accelerate the failure
acefurate
aglianico
aircraft communication electronic signaling system
ambu respirator
antennarius maculatus
arctopsyche taiwanensis
auxiliary data processing system
base mud
Batcape
bickers
boylson
cancer cell infiltration
cardite
Carex subpumila
caterans
channel flow with vari able mass flow rate
clamants
cleidoscapular
clozarils
commixta
contact potential
corpora Okense
cotton-seed
cricoids
degentrification
diminished seventh chord
dispersion law
dominica i.
drain recovery
electronic learning
enys
epigastric spot
erosion wearing
film review
flat-vignole rail
flavells
Flisa
foreign economic interest
fund flow analysis
gay chicken
glandulae circumanales
gloeosteretriol
high-radiation flux
highhat
huchen
image object area
inconvertible securities
information payload capacity
installation in reverse order
integrated pre-service cleaning
intermediate film system
ir stimulated luminescence!
kinetocytosis
L(-)Arabitol
l-ali
leakage channel
lipoidaemias
Luggin capillary
Mairena del Alcor
methyldopas
multistage control
Novyy Turtas
onnagata (japan)
parsonsia alboflavescens
pentafungin
pituitary gonadotrophin
planococcus lilacinus
princeling
pseudo-discipline
reduced-price
regio laryngica
routeing domain
satellite loading building
savoys
scandinavian nations
semi-fascist
semiquantification
Semper's larva
shore clause
silver albuminate
simulation report
site
sociopathy
sulpho-(sulfo-)
supply pump
teacher tenure
tela cellulosa
tetartohedral pentagonal dodecahedron
That's cold.
third-order prism
three-column core
TIG cutting
truckengine
trumpetwoods
turbine steam valve
Valnera
vegetative DNA
viewing box
vortex vein
X-ray developer