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
Achorion lebertii
alkaline reserve
allosyndisis
already-listed
angle of shear resistance
antenna inaequalis
Arbatax
atomic physicss
bar cutting machine
be one for the books
Bellegem
Bhagwan
biis
bilateral bearing
black mould of rice
Blyth Ra.
Bykovka
can feeder
chequer-work
clicketting
compound dl
configuration insteraction
consumer action group
COP (coefficient of performance)
crest-fall
Cross-measurement
cucumbertrees
cufflinks
dado capping
deaf-points
deferred check point restart
deglucohellebrin
dimanches
efficiency rotation
engarrisons
environmental cracking
exempt employee
froken
gas gauging
general once-over tillage
get away speed
get mine
guaranteed efficiency
guyette
ibm tivoli storage resource manager agent
iron stone
Kaura
krypton-85 source
large scale air separation plant
lead autunite
lexicalises
liquid bath furnace
lucernas
luteal regression stage
marginal net revenue curve
melasyenogabbro
mesnyi
mixus
Murzūq
musculus arrector ventr.
newly-appointeds
nonzero algebra
normalism
normative reference group
oil gage
oriental medicine
paint the town red
paraolfactory
parting shears
phosphoranyls
playgirl
plectranthias yamakawai
preheating evaporator
procedure execution stack
processor consistency model
professional workstation
prohibitory injunction
pseudocysticercosis
ran ragged
see something of the world
seepage deformation
separated-gang cultivator
settlement slope
sight deposit
silky pig iron
skreak
small-plate
Sooretama
soyt
standard preparation hours
stone net
tazmania
The ass waggeth his ears
tourist board
truxillic acid
unacknowledged connectionless-mode transmission
Vacutainer
ventricular escape
voluntary contribution
water extract
welding blower
woodsia alpina gray