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
a-slug
absolute viscosity
acidresistance
additive disc
algebraic function theory
anticatalytic
Bessel interpolation formula
bierly
bright future
brominating
bronchus segmentalis superior
c. rogers theory
canned seasoned
carrier plate
chyliferous vessel
city academies
cob-cutting knife
commodity draft
construction figure progress
corypha utans
crwth
cusp-fossa
degree of seismicity
dip one's hand into one's pocket
double squsre closed single head wrench
EAROM (electrically-alterable read only memory)
endfulness
engine functioning
enthraled
epoxidase
feis
five-cylinders
French method roofing
frequency exchange signalling
friend-moloney
geography of goods traffic
goes to
head and shoulders above
head office general account
hemialgia
Heney Glacier
hennocks
heterophyllisine
histologists
hungarian turn position
indian relishes
internal sensor
isogal map
janovaite (janowaite)
jaunced
jig bushing
keyth
kid brothers
Kinabatangan, Sungei
kronks
lateral sensitivity
Lecanorales
lens-coupled viewfinder
magnetic regulator
Marunga
maximum ordinate
metallographic inspection
microturbine
molded insulator
multiserial crochet
nitrogen 14 beam
ornery
ownership of movable
palaeoecological
pelviabdominal
pieons
position limiting
Processus articulares superiores
pulse divider
quartz-muscovite rock
radio tracer
reactor flux shield
reciprocal mixing
reemployments
restricted chi-squared test
rosenonolactone
salvationists
scatter-air-ratio
scranching
search list
segmented dictionary stack
side overflow
sideroconite
sign control
slow diffusion
structurations
sygnory
symmetrical distribution
system safe signal
take blame for others
thermal sensitive stock
true warblers
two-tierer
vertical transfer register
vesparax
wellbrought-up
white limestone powder