时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:朗文3L看听学英语第四册


英语课

  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
acquisition instinct
active users
AEDS (Atomic Energy Detection System)
Anglicising
beach volleyball
bed of thorns
bills receivable register
Braxton-Hicks contraction
breakeven charting
by bulk
carpet knights
carry a ticket
classification of penalty
coconversion
collapse field of mangnetic bubble
control system of machine
Corydalis paniculata
crapplication
discharge of indebtedness
distillatory (vessel)
earflap
emerald shiners
engraff
eumesophytic meadow
evanescences
evangelistical
extremest
Fluoristan
frailest
fresh water clause
friction heating
gold cards
golf widows
graylag geese
guttate
Gāndhi Sāgar
huge system
hyperelliptic function field
information center
infrastructrue
inlet guide vane (igv)
interactive productivity facility
intercell communication
international enterprise
itemized scale of professional charges
junction-transistor integrator
kalverstraat
khameini
kinetic chain length
kinetographer
legume weevil
lumbar artery
Malora, Pizzo
mass-wasting deposition
megnetron
mosaic dominance
Moxoene
multi-deck vibrating separator
mxd.
My Chanh
nicostop
nonmanagement
pack alarm
picrinite
pitch plane
polenin
polyurethane fibre
productive practice
Przewóz
quasi-Monte Carlo method
recondition expense
regenerative heat exchanger
reiche
reinforcement prefabrication
relative transmission density
remote controlled bomb
Ribes pseudofasciculatum
righteous
saraswati
sclerometer
self-fashionings
silverspears
skyvald
soluble chemistry
staple fibre spinning
steamalloy
store-and-forward element
striped puffer
subcatalog
tapetum chorioideae
tauromycetin
tender vessel
translationary
unripp
urticaceaes
ward-off
wave spectroscopy
Weitbrecht's foramen
whole-hog
wienerschnitzel