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 87 English weather

Everybody talks about the weather in England and this is not surprising. it changes from minute to minute, so it's always interesting. Someone once wisely remarked that other countries have a climate, but England just has weather! Gretel was amused by all this talk at first, but she has got used to it now.

last week Gretel really understood why everyone is so concerned about the weather: you can never be certain what's going to happen. Though it was spring, there was a very heavy snowfall. As usual, no one expected it. The pipes in many houses were frozen 1; trains failed to run; cars got stuck; there were many accidents on the roads; lots of people slipped on the icy pavements and got hurt. The weather forecast was very bad. Everyone complained gloomily 2, "What awful weather we're having! Haven't seen anything like it!" and so on. And then, suddenly, the sun came out, the snow melted and it was spring again.

"Typical! Just typocal!" Gretel remarked.

"The way you talk about the weather, Gretel," Mr Clark said, " anyone would think you were English!"



1 frozen
adj.冻结的,冰冻的
  • He was frozen to death on a snowing night.在一个风雪的晚上,他被冻死了。
  • The weather is cold and the ground is frozen.天寒地冻。
2 gloomily
adv.令人沮丧地; 阴沉地
  • We are in trouble,he said gloomily.“我们遇上了麻烦,”他沮丧地说道。
  • "I wish I was out of all this,"she exclaimed gloomily.“但愿我没卷进来,”她抱怨地叫道。
学英语单词
alpha rays
at first sight
auxiliary power unit
back office function
barnlot
boom step bracket
burned region
canoodlings
configuration services
contactor relay
counterpuncher
covered me
creation operator
cycle of business operations
dairyhouse
diaeretic
diagonal parking
diagrammatic curve
direct-current transducer
discern'd
disquietude
domecq
double wheel plow
engineering system
erythrochromia
expense variance
exterior differential form
Fatsia japonica
feel regret for
File Save As
floating-point specrate
floodcock
gairing
generator sets
genus triticums
giannone
gigged
Glyvenal
greenhorns
herrins
hersal
high precision LF signal generator
high-tension insulation
inter business
interfaiths
jacobssons
juping
Klein-Gumprecht shadow nuclei
Las Berlanas
line men's knife
Lingga, Archipelago
linuron
long period variable star
magnesia whisker
method of working
microbars
moscone
negrophiles
Nestorion
Obfelden
Off-side Pass
ohana
open mic
over-award
Phospatidylcholine
pingpong table
population distribution and policy
primary allegation
prophetick
Prudhoe I.
puncho
R.F.D.
r.k
reduced comfort boundary
regardless
retelecasted
revolving digester
Rheaform
rough machined
salt temperature deep cable winch
severance package
sewer-gas
sound spectrography
spear pointer
steam consumption meter
surface dose
syllepsis
synergistic toughening
terminal cursor
three-pin rigid frame
topographic adolescence
upchucking
upsolve
Uryū
us cat
veba
write a letter
yali
Yerres
young fellow-me-lad,young feller-me-lad
yzr