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 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
acetolase
air gapping
arbon chloroform extraction (cce)
armure royale
asservile
automatic cutting off
bad hides
band groove
break in time
buffs
camoshes
capital intensive economy
cereal
cervonic acid
check overdraft credits
chicago-kent
chromatograms
clinical reagent
clown on
clutch control cable
coast defence radar
combined bridge console
conception of autogenesis
container itself insurance
conveyer lever cam
cylinder cup
dimorphs
direct sound
dive into the mysteries of
djassi
economic take-off
elegal
emergency dump
Eslarn
ethnophaulic
forward-difference operator
funiculus cuneatus lateralis
gate unit
half angle of spread
Hammoudia
hedgecutters
height equivalent to a theoretical stage
high pressure atomizer
home mobile station
hop onto
in place computation
innocential
insect bioacoustics
intercycle cooler
ketoketene
lancme
lardbutts
lens factor
licit
losoxantrone
low ripple generator
lysophagosome
maltooligosaccharides
metaschoepite
narcotrafficker
neptunium nitrate
non-observational
nonconcert
Oilfield-service
order Radiolaria
palatovaginal canal
panic! at the disco
parocket
parricidal
prime assets
pump bypassing
rise time response
rod and cap mark
SCVIR
Shavuot
side by side mounting
silo base
sodium hexaborate
stand age
stimulus-response model
Streunex
sub-post
suppurative interstitial pneumonia
tananwan formation
tangential shearing stress
thionone colour
thirtieth highest annual hourly volume
ticking sling
time polarity
toglia
transformer substation
trenet
turnkey invitation to tender
twistfree
upstream face
usweb
vascular murmur
vessel constrained by her draught
voluntarily-organized employment
voted on
yellow chamomile
zillion