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
acute poisoning
agia
alirios
allan poe
ampholytic detergent
anti-politicss
articulation of shoulder
at closing time
Axis Power
bangana r.
barrenhood
black bombers
blerim
boom stick
boring spindle diameter
bull berry
cabelluda
character load routine
chemophobic
consumer aid
curcumbitate
current feed
danhasch
date time
death-wish
Demecastigmine
dihydroetrophine
direct mounting
dorsal trachea
drifting off
duty free-zone
e.r.
electric plating film disk
electro-beam floating zone melting
electromagnetic theory
enchondral ossification
FADU
flat cells
freezing interval
full legal tender
gas x-ray tube
haugan
hydro-vacuum brake
hypoxemic
incomplete tetanus
indelicato
indirect-fired furnace
influents
inside bank
instrument with electrostatic screening
ketatosis pharyngea
kibibyte
krasnozem
lap welded pipe
life saving ship
lip ring
liquid load
liquid phase epitaxial method
LP (local processor)
lysatin
MC'd
mean horizontal candles
motor caravan
muffle coat
Musculus bulbospongiosus
neuronography
nonsentience
off the board
oil man
open-web joist
organizational demography
orto
output matrix
oxacillin
passenger acceptance and load control
periscope television
Phichai
photocoagulating
pickup clutch
political interference
preeclampsias
quadratic form
quick-change gear
retarder solvent
roseners
shoulder carrying mower
sliderules
stannates
straetlingite (str?tlingite)
submodularity
Taan
thrust available
to slay
toy cap
unisokinetic sampling
upperbound
V.I.P.
Velimlje
VFIB/CA
western whiptail
whirrrr
xanthic ferralsols