时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:生活英语情景口语


英语课

T: do you mind if I sit here?

P: no, of course not. Go ahead.

T: don't I know you?

P: yes, now that you mention it, I think we had a chemistry class together in high school.

T: you're right! How are you? It's been a long time!

P: What did you do after high school?

T: I went straight to university afterwards. What about you?

P: I took a year off to go travelling.

T: that sounds exciting. Where did you go?

P: I went all over the world. It was the best year of my life. Where did you go to school?

T: I went to a small school in Connecticut. It has a very good reputation 1 for its languages department.

P: Oh, did you study a foreign language?

T: yes, I got a grant 2 to study Chinese.

P: that's a very difficult language to learn, isn't it?

T: it is, but it's very rewarding 3.

P: so you can speak Chinese?

T: I can, but not as well as I'd like to. I'll be studying Chinese until the day I die!

P: I think most languages take a lifetime 4 to learn well.

我坐这儿你不介意吧?

不,当然不介意,坐吧.

我该不会是认识你吧?

对了,说起来还真认识.我想我们高中时曾经在一起上过化学课.

没错!你好吗?那是很久以前的事了!

你高中毕业后干了什么?

我直接上大学了.你呢?

我休学一年出去旅游了.

听起来很有意思.你都去哪里了?

我走遍了全球.那是我生命中最美好的一年.你去哪个学校了?

我去了康涅狄格州的一个小学校.那儿的语言学院名声很好.

你学的是外语吧?

对,我拿了奖学金学中文.

那是一门很难学的语言,对吧?

是的,但是很值得一学.

那你现在可以讲中文了?

可以,但是我希望自己能说的更好些.对于中文,我会活到老学到老的.

我觉得大多数语言要想掌握好都要花上一辈子的时间.afterwards:at a later time; after an event that has already been mentioned 以后;后来

Afterwards she was sorry for what she'd said.

后来她后悔说了那些话.

Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterwards.

咱们先去看戏,然后吃饭.

Shortly 5 afterwards he was seen in a bar in town.

不久以后,有人在城里一家酒吧见到了他.


rewarding:(of an activity, etc. 活动等) worth doing; that makes you happy because you think it is useful or important 值得做的;有益的

a rewarding experience/job

有益的经历/工作

Teaching 6 is not very financially rewarding(= is not very well paid).

教书不会有很高的报酬.




lifetime:the length of time that sb lives or that sth lasts 一生;终身;有生之年;(某物的)存在期,寿命,使用期限

His diary was not published during his lifetime.

他的日记在他生前未曾发表过.

a lifetime of experience

毕生的经验

in the lifetime of the present government

在本届政府的任期内

 



1 reputation
n.名誉,声誉,声望,信誉
  • We are very anxious to keep up the reputation of the firm.我们对于保持公司的名誉非常急切。
  • He has not too good a reputation in the matter of honesty.就诚实而言,他的名声不太好。
2 grant
vt.同意给予,授予,承认;n.拨款;补助款
  • If you grant my request, you will earn my thanks.如果你答应我的要求,就会得到我的感谢。
  • He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。
3 rewarding
adj.令人满意的;利益的
  • Gardening is a very rewarding pastime.园艺劳动是非常有益的消遣。
  • She finds motherhood very rewarding.她认为做母亲得偿所愿。
4 lifetime
n.一生,终身,寿命,使用期限
  • He wrote many books during his lifetime.他一生著作甚多。
  • During his lifetime his work was never published.他的作品在他的有生之年从未出版过。
5 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。
6 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
学英语单词
-rific
Abel tests
All 's well that ends well.
androgynises
anti-independence
association for computing machinery (acm)
atteveld
ball hockey
Bas-en-Basset
Berl saddles
bromatological
burkaed
call someone's bluff
capital-in-excess account
Carex peiktusani
center upset
cerium materials/devices
charlesite
cloisters
congestion window
constancies
crenimugil crenilabi
cum towel
david turner
decorrelations
DIFI
direct cycle access storage device (dasd)
discrete-time convolution property
document storage status
dysosma veitchii (hemsl. et wils. fu)
easy on the trigger
easy-to-grasp
ecological engineering
epicanthal fold
esophagectomies
eulogious
expenditure for procurement
fire hole ring
Formosa B.
Gave d'Oloron
high speed ball mill
inferior tarsal muscle
interlock control
knife file
Kogushi
latching logic
left ventriculo-aortic conduit
limit of integration
locking pushbutton
long-stem nozzle
lpci open signal
Macdowel's frenum
main scheduling routine
make your presence felt
masson disk
matching magnet
mergers-and-acquisitions
metatracheal wide type
methylglutaconyl
Mixed Mode CD
mobiliary art
monoclines
multiple storage
multiple utility
nanotexturing
neural anesthesia
oath-rite
odman
pearlins
pedatilobed
petewilliamsite
Phenazodine
pipeline conveyor
polyanionic surfactant
potassium methyl sulfate
preserved meat
primary marketing
propylmercuric bromide
punch-tape code
pusher bar
quasi-factorical design
rabbinish
rack up
RAID4
ranking form
remote control rack
resonant vibrator
Rikuzentakata
running latte
secondary peduncle
shear-plate nozzle
struma colloides cystica
suburbans
table napkin
Tensift, Oued
Tismana
transportin
unit start-up and commissioning
unshadowable
upganger
vacuum packer
vehicle currency