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
a breath of fresh air
agnostids
alchemy
alloimperatorine
amaranthus biltum l.
appendicular lithiasis
bahir
be justified in
benzoylation
bilboe
bingles
biogeographic, biogeographical
biological roentgen equivalent
bogen structure(bogenstruktur)
born-
bottom cleaning plug
Cadoneghe
calf sound
carbohydrate isomerase
cd recording
citrulline
cladding tube
cocktail shaker piston
communication failure detecting and switching
concrete tile
Cuneatochara
Cychry
datings
decartel(l)ising
dining rooms
discernment
duchardt
Dulong and Petit's law
enclosures
entry system
F clefs
four-bit
fourrange
freewheeling roller clutch
Galton's system of classification
group testing
grunwald
gustavsus vs
Gzira
high ash fuel
incentive compatibility constraint
integral matrix
kleczka
laverties
left brake lever
line idle
magnetic axis of the earth
malt-sugar
MAMILs
mandibulectomies
monographic study
news organization
nicor
nonextensile
octocoral
oesophagostomum radiatum
or line interface unit
paint-brush
Palena, R.
Papilionoideae
phenosafranine
present in
printing houses
program section
protostyles
pseudofiltered category
quartz reaction chamber
regular analytical function
reprofile
rheidaes
riady
Salakas
satellite navigational equipment
savings at call
scouting map front
secondary pectoral girdle
secondary syphilide
selected ship station
semi flexible coupling
shamaness
single-varactor parametric amplifier
slab of sugar
snoged
solar panel
split clamping bearing
stiffened trussed arch
sugarcane weighing platform
suriclone
swivel pipe clamp
Tahyeon-ji
TCP/IP software
vertex vesic?
wavure
wet ketone accumulator
Wheelerville
winter hump
zip on