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
8-amino-cADP-ribose
ac-count
angularvariation
antiseptic dressing
atas
atrial gallop rhythm
backing condenser
barkcloth
be in good health
book gain
Bracadale, Loch
Caledonia body
Chauvigny
clear the decks
cobalt resinate
cocksurest
compensating tapaer feed wheel
coupled car
deposit in a fictitious name
dermal leishmanoid
disch
disk friction clutch
dogcows
double-beam spectrometer
drawer front
empyoma
ensonification
everyone of us
external auditory canals
finance corporation for industry
fios de ovos
franchised
genus spirochaetas
graded suspension
guhr dynamite
hand grenades
hexacyprone
hippocrepians
hyperosmolar coma
in running order
Inhaca
interlayer dirt
keep someone company
ladle well
lead tester
letters column
long range navigation
looning
lunar seismogram
lustioussmooth finish
magnetic dipole moment matrix
marker buoy
mental work
model drawing
molded laminate
mollify
new-formations
OD's
oil embolism
oil-firing boiler
old-farrant
out of stock
ozone ageing
possibles
potentio-
predrags
primary flight control (pfc)
prisoner under sentence of death
prompt jump reactivity
puffer poison
qingbai glaze with brown mottles
questant
radar scatterometer
recording blank
regional pulmonary function
rheotachygraphy
ride the beam
roboticized
run on errands
semi-crisp texture
send regrets
serophysiology
settlement brochure
siberite
square waveguide
stagnant glacier
steam condensation rate
sugar of lead
Synotis setchuenensis
tgcas
theoretically speaking
tilia americanas
trailing plant
trapezia areolata
trufflelike
Unified Threat Management
vigne
voxmap
warped wall
wire-loop fins
Wādat
XGP