时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:EPT美语 第三级(初高中适用)


英语课

[流行美语]又和大家见面了。Michael 和李华这两个大学生今天在 纽约的百老汇
逛马路。那里戏院很多。李华看到一个 剧院在演歌 舞剧[音乐之声],于是她苦
苦哀求Michael 陪她去看。Michael 在学中 文。他喜欢李华跟他讲中文,可以让
他练习听力。他在今天的对话 里会用到"broke"和“lame 1"这两个词。

L: Michael,你看,这个剧院在演[音乐之声]!我一直想看这个歌 舞剧。
M: I know, it's a popular show.
L: 谁都喜欢[音乐之声]。Michael,今天晚上我们没有功课,我们去 看,好吗?
M: Sorry, Li Hua, I'm broke. Maybe another time.
L: Broke? 你受伤啦?
M: No, no, no! I did not break anything. Here broke means 2 to have no money.
L: 噢,你没有摔断骨头,把我吓一跳。Broke 在这里的意思是没有 钱。上回我
妈妈出了车祸,花了好多钱修车,她就没钱了。这也可以说 ...
M: Yes, your mom was broke!
L: 我哥哥付了学费,还买了好多书,他现在也是没钱了。
M: Your brother is now broke! I know your sister spent all her money to buy a
computer, so she is now broke too.
L: 你怎么知道我姐姐买了一台电脑,把所有的钱都花完了?
M: You told me yourself, you just forgot!
L: 我告诉过你?我真是忘了。可是我不信你没有钱,你不是刚开始 给一个公司打
工,前几天还发了工资吗?
M: Ok, ok, I'm not broke. We can go see the show.
L: 我知道你有钱!太好了,太好了,谢谢你Michael。
L: 这两个座位还挺好的。
M: Yea, pretty good. Li Hua, do you know why I didn't want to come to the show?
Because I think musicals are lame.
L: Lame? Lame 是什么意思呀?
M: When you say something is lame you mean that it is silly or it is uninteresting.
L: 噢,说什么东西 lame 就是说没有意思,无聊。还有什么事情你 觉得是无聊
的?
M: Saturday morning classes are lame!
L: 你是说星期六早上上课是个馊主意?
M: Yes, having class on a weekend is lame because it's a silly idea.
L: 对,我也同意,周末上课太没劲了!谁出的这个主意,是够傻的。
对了,Michael, 上回你交不出家庭作业也找了个很牵强的借口,你当时是怎么对
教授说的?
M: I told our professor that my dog ate my homework. Yes, I agree, that was a lame
excuse.
L: 对了,你对教授说你的狗把你的家庭作业给吃了。谁都不会相信 你这种话。
那你刚才不想来看歌舞剧,借口说没钱,那也是 lame excuse?
M: Yes, it was an inadequate 3 excuse because I do have money.
L: 我知道你有钱,只是为了不想看歌舞剧而找个借口才说没钱的。
M: You can also say...
L: 行了,行了,我懂了。别说话了,演出开始了。
M: Ok, but don't give me any lame excuses next time I want to do something!
L: 下回不管你要干什么,我绝对不会用这种牵强的借口。
M: Seriously, after buying these tickets I really am broke!
L: 买了这两张票,你真的没钱啦?得,下回我请客。

Michael 和李华在今天的对话里用了broke 这个词,broke 在这里的意 思是没有钱
了。他们还用了一个词:lame, 意思是无聊,没有 意思,或者是不合适的。这次
[流行美语]就学习到这里,我们下次节 目再见。



1 lame
adj.跛的,(辩解、论据等)无说服力的
  • The lame man needs a stick when he walks.那跛脚男子走路时需借助拐棍。
  • I don't believe his story.It'sounds a bit lame.我不信他讲的那一套。他的话听起来有些靠不住。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 inadequate
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
学英语单词
additives
advanta
agoon
air pollution episode
azimuthal lever
bad-taste
be prepared from
beam stiffness
blast-furnace cinder
bungee
cable winch
carotid plexus
cirrigerous
clodder
combined frame system
combines
comparative measurements
computer telephone integration
controlled marker
council manager plan
decay path
deratization exemption certificate
diethylnitrosamine
dive-bomb
Dumas, Cratère
earning life of the vessel
emetize
emogene
enthalpy of absorption
escapepipe
ex-aspirate
external bill
family Lemuridae
filling level
flame proof electric motor
FLWG
foreign technology devision
gas efficiency
Glottograph
hemolyze
house sync genlock
howling shame
INCO term
inextensional
isosaccharinic acid
keep the fine qualities of
kok
load barrel
Longonot Vol.
low-enrichment uranium
lumped modulator
made a bolt for it
mangily
measurement and control
minimum delay condition
mire resources
moisture collector
multiphase shift keying
Norrisian
ool
open-circuit potential
optical fiber applications
ore-controlling structure
Pago B.
Pepsi Challenge
photodissociating
plug - in type
politically neutral
positive coexistence
primary splenic neutropenia
priming jet
projection efficiency
prothese
quick cut
quviut
readdress oneself to
reductibility
regraters
reproductive habit
resonance point
riding mistress
rienzo
rosin soap
Sanicula lamelligera
sdsasys-s
small and medium businesses
solid tires
Soundscriber
SSGS
storm microseism
structuralist approach
tare effect
ten of thousands
terpene oil
tide observation
tin-coated brass
trilobitic
unspen
water pressure main
water treatment plant
withstand seismic accelerations
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