时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:美语咖啡屋


英语课

Y: 各位听众好,我是杨晨。欢迎到美语咖啡屋!


J: Hello I'm Jody, welcome to American Cafe! On this edition of American Cafe we are going to talk to our friend Jeannie from West Virginia.


Y: 好香啊。你是在煮汤吗?


J: No, I am boiling soup. I am boiling brown.


Y: Brown? 你说的颜色里的brown, 棕色吗?


J: That is right. I am boiling the color brown.


Y: Jody, 你真是越来越可爱了。 颜色也能煮吗?


J: Of course, you can boil a color. I got the idea from Jeannie, the woman artist we met who raises sheep and then uses their wool to make stuff.


Y: 对。我认识Jeannie。她非常特别。为什么说她特别呢? 因为她不但自己养羊,还会剪羊毛,织毛衣。 她织的每一件毛衣都是艺术品。


J: That is right. She also dyes the wool herself.


But Yang Chen, you forgot a part of the process.


Y: 她还会给羊毛染色啊?


J: People who dye wool naturally use by-products found in nature like fruit, leaves and bark from trees, vegetables, even bugs 3!


Y: Bugs? 虫子,我最怕那些小虫子。 你刚才提到的by-product 2,能不能给大家解释一下?


J: By-product, spelled B-Y-P-R-O-D-U-C-T. A by-product is something that is left over from a process.


Y:对, By-product就是副产品的意思。


J: Jeannie is going to tell us how she is going to use by-product from trees like yellow boxwood elder, osage orange wood and walnut 4 tress to get completely natural color.


Y: 你刚才提到的yellow boxwood elder或者是osage orange wood...


J: Those are just types of trees.


Y: 好。我们就听听Jeannie是利用那些by-products来作染料。


实录1: Jeannie: And in this case I've dyed with yellow box elder to get this nice green-yellow color. And I've got some dyed with osage orange wood and the boxwood was given to me by another friend as a by-product of something he was making.


Y: 我还是不太明白,她到底是用什么方法把这些东西制作出各种颜色的染料呢?


J: The process involves cocking the ingratiates over an open fire like a big pot of soup. Jeannie says that she dyed her wool over an open fire with friends. Doesn't that sound fun?


Y: 嗯...


J: Don't answer that. I had the feeling that boiling bugs over an open flame is not your idea of fun, but for Jeannie...


实录2: Jeannie: Well, we did this outside over an open fire and it took a couple of hours. It was a lot of fun.


Y: 不过我还有一个疑问,如果是利用这些自然界的这些东西来制作颜色,那么颜色的种类是不是很有限呢?


J: Jeannie said that you can get almost any color you want from nature; you can have the whole color span.


Y: 那你这里说的whole color span就是所有的颜色都包括在内。


J: Exactly, and according to Jeannie people who are really into dying wool naturally can get any color they want.


Y: 等一等,我想提醒大家当你说一个人“really into something"就是说这个人某件事特别认真,特别投入。


J: Oh, good point. If you are really into something, you have been doing something for a long time and you really like it. But enough from us, Yang Chen, let's hear how Jeannie uses the expression "really into it" and words like "span..."


实录3: Jeannie: Yeah, there's natural colors you can get almost anything you want. And people who are really into it -- which I'm not, I'm just a beginner, but with the natural colors -- but you can get browns from walnut. You can get blue from indigo 5. So you can have the whole span.


J: Jeannie says she is just a beginner, but to me she sounds like a pro 1.


Y: 没错,我也觉得她听起来很老练。你有没有闻到什么东西煮糊了?


Y: 我知道这种来自大自然的颜色一定有很多好处,但是它们会不会很容易退色呢?


J: Oh, no it's my color brown. It's burning, it is all boiled over. Oh, man, my color brown it the color black. I guess I am the real beginner here. Well, anyway, thanks for joining us on American Cafe...See you next time.


Y: 谢谢大家收听美语咖啡屋。我们下次再见。


J: Where is Jeannie when we need her?



1 pro
n.赞成,赞成的意见,赞成者
  • The two debating teams argued the question pro and con.辩论的两组从赞成与反对两方面辩这一问题。
  • Are you pro or con nuclear disarmament?你是赞成还是反对核裁军?
2 by-product
n.副产品,附带产生的结果
  • Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.自由是经济盈余的副产品。
  • The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.制造轮胎的原材料是提炼汽油时产生的一种副产品。
3 bugs
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 walnut
n.胡桃,胡桃木,胡桃色,茶色
  • Walnut is a local specialty here.核桃是此地的土特产。
  • The stool comes in several sizes in walnut or mahogany.凳子有几种尺寸,材质分胡桃木和红木两种。
5 indigo
n.靛青,靛蓝
  • The sky was indigo blue,and a great many stars were shining.天空一片深蓝,闪烁着点点繁星。
  • He slipped into an indigo tank.他滑落到蓝靛桶中。
学英语单词
4-Salicyloylmorpholine
a type right-of-way
acetyldigoxin
aethetic zoning
aluminum nitride
Amospan
angulus posterior pyramidis
antinociceptives
ateliosis
atom size
bagnio
bald cypresses
bald wheat
balloon fish
belaces
bendini
bhaktas
bioautography
bonxies
buttonlike
carleo
carved lacquer necklace
catheys val.
circulating pledge
cluster of engines
colour correction mask
compass platform
conceptual data
constant staticizer
corn islands
coronal helmet
direct condenser
double butt strap
double open end wrench black finished
electric power distribution panal
elks
exchange equipment
famulating
farandinical
fast-breeder reactor
Federal Reserve Systems
feet-on-the-ground
femas
fish-eating rat
flyhalf
folkeskoles
ghirardini
goes off with
hare's-foot
insulated boundary
Kanapoi
Kool-Aid
lambertianin
loop-locked
made himself at home
Marianologist
methyl silicone resins
microcampylopus laevigatum
moment of forces tending to capasize
negative scotoma
nephron(e)
non synchronized network
output and input
painstakenly
paleo-indians
papodums
paste food
ploughtail
polytetrafluoroethylene fibre reinforcement
prairie mallow
prescription drug advertising
pulsating energy
quadricellular
quiffed
refluxive
removing fire in the lung and resolving phlegm
sa-ree
saboor
schilz
scrimpiness
series statement
skinnis
SNQ
sorted ore
spinibulbar
stablish
suspension rod
tally shop
tap bill
tertiary plants
tetracyclic coordinate
tide-riding water level
troodont
Ungcheon
velocity derived by differential
wallowish
waste
Wehrbleck
wood former
working space register
working with command bars