时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


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  Lesson 89 Television Day: Swindle's Ghost

TV Commentary 1:

Some people believe that there are houses which are haunted 2 by ghosts.Perhaps there are, perhaps there aren't-it's hard to say. Today we are going to describe a scientific experiment during which a "ghost" was seen. The "ghost" is really an after-image. It is called "Swindle's Ghost" because the experiment was first performed by an American psychologist 3 called Swindle. This is how our own experiment as performed.

A dark, moonless night was chosen and the curtains were drawn 4 so that no light could enter from outside. Half a dozen people were asked to sit round a table in the middle of the room. A table-lamp was placed in the centre of the table. When everyone was seated, the lamp was turned off for ten minutes. Everyone sat in complete darkness and looked towards the lamp till they got quite used to the darkness. They sat perfectly 5 still and kept looking in exactly the same direction. Then the lamp was turned on for exactly one second and then off again. Shortly 6 afterwards, the whole scene became visible 7 in the darkness. It was a very clear "ghost" image which lasted for a few seconds.



1 commentary
n.评论,评注;实况广播报导,现场口头评述
  • He is giving the commentary on the basketball game.他正在对篮球赛作评论。
  • His running commentary on the football match was excellent.他对这次足球赛所作的实况报道十分精彩。
2 haunted
adj.闹鬼的;受到折磨的;令人烦恼的v.“haunt”的过去式和过去分词
  • There was a haunted look in his eyes. 他眼中透露出忧虑的神色。
  • The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war. 内战仿佛一触即发,举国上下一片恐慌。
3 psychologist
n.心理学家;心理学研究者
  • Dr.Sinclair is a child psychologist.辛克莱博士是一位儿童心理学专家。
  • Psychologist is expert who studies at psychology.心理学家是研究心理学的专家。
4 drawn
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
5 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
6 shortly
adv.立即,不久;简略地,简言之
  • You go along with him. I'll come shortly.你陪陪他,我马上就来。
  • He answered my questions rather shortly.他相当简慢地回答我的问题。
7 visible
adj.看得见的,明显的,显然的;n.可见物
  • It is a visible star in the sky.这是一颗在天空中可见的星星。
  • The warning lights were clearly visible.警示信号灯清晰可见。
学英语单词
acephenanthrene
Aceratherlum
antinepotistic
Arrigny
Asia, Kep.
aurous potassium cyanide
bail someone out
bearded oyster
Benzafibrate
bestialness
blade type foresight
block heater
boron polymer
bowlers
buckman
buffered card punch
burnt ear
Captain Bligh
Carex tsaiana
cherepanovite
circumstances of aggravation
claim for tax refund
completed construction
composition language
continuous type retort
counterdiscursive
damnations
differential energy flux density
digital redlining
direction of camera axis
discontinue
enclosing rectangle
enicospilus grandis
fixed obliquity pelvis
flashy load
fluxility
free drip
frondosely
gascoynes
goboned
great-grandkid
gun oil burner
Hammerstein Seamount
hardness test
hydraulic characteristics
hydroga
Japanese Rain Goggles
jus dare
make the best of one's way
medium-dated securities
Mercedario
Muntok(Mentok)
namib deserts
negative voice
neodorm
nonequilibrium characteristics
nongelatinized
northbrae
obligatory term
ocean space
Ortrand
Otu
physiological tolerance limit
Platanthera brevicalcarata
postanal transverse groove
postembedding
preparateur
raftings
ride on a cycle
rolling fixture
rumberry
sarcosomataceaes
saw bar
Saxifraga eregia
semi-automatic sprayer
semi-desert steppe soil
semiconductor manufacturing
slotted airfoil
snake hole
sophoiaponicin
spectral photographic plate
squibster
summit concordance
Swales
tecumthas
tenghui
the master plan
There is method in one's madness.
time loss
tow-step die
travel(l)ing gear
tree crusher
trigeminal foramen
two speed
tyroglyphid
umbraciousness
unrepeatability
vakils
vena subintestinalis
vouchsafest
wing ship