时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

After the disaster


Jade:Thanks for helping 1 me up.

Chris:Are you OK? I didn't mean to put you in danger.

Jade:I'm the hazardous 2 one here. I made three people fall over!

Chris:That takes talent...

Jade:I'm so humiliated 3! What's that man saying? Everyone's laughing!

Chris:He said you obviously prefer Greek comedies to Greek tragedies.


disaster (n.)

灾难,不幸

A: The food catering 4 company can't bring us the food today.

外烩公司今天不能帮我们准备食物。

B: Oh no! This is a disaster!

糟糕!完蛋了!


hazardous (a.)

危险的

A: Don't you know that smoking is hazardous to your health?

你不知道吸烟对健康有害吗?

B: Yes, I know that.

对,我知道啊。


humiliated (a.)

丢脸的,蒙羞的

I was so humiliated when I called our client by the wrong name.

当我叫错我客户的名字时,我真是超糗的。


comedy (n.)

喜剧。tragedy (n.) 悲剧。关于希腊戏剧,详细说明请见上面解说部分

When I'm in a bad mood, the only thing that makes me feel better is a good comedy.

当我心情不好,只有好看的喜剧能让我心情变好。


Eat, Drink, and Be Greek! --Sequel


灾难过后


小 玉:谢谢你扶我起来。

克里斯:你还好吗?我不是故意要把你带入险境。

小 玉:我在这儿是危险人物。我害三个人跌倒了!

克里斯:那需要点天分……

小 玉:我觉得好丢脸!那个男士在说什么?大家都在笑!

克里斯:他说你显然比较喜欢希腊喜剧,而非希腊悲剧。



1 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
2 hazardous
adj.(有)危险的,冒险的;碰运气的
  • These conditions are very hazardous for shipping.这些情况对航海非常不利。
  • Everybody said that it was a hazardous investment.大家都说那是一次危险的投资。
3 humiliated
感到羞愧的
  • Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当,父母也失体面。
  • He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻,丢尽了面子。
4 catering
n. 给养
  • Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
  • Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的?
学英语单词
4-PG
abdominal discomfort
acronychius
alphettes
ambulatory electrocardiography
anesthesimeter
angle of incidence of minimum drag
arctic black out
array pipelining algorithm
arteriae tympanica inferior
authorized personnel only
BAK
band bending
befettered
boss parietal
C-I-A
Clary
cretin
Cytodex
dawted
diazol colors
disengage from
dissociative drugs
double barreled quotation
dragon project
effective quantity
electricity-distribution
emergency crops
enterohepatic circulation
enzyme labelling
evanishing
facility criteria
fogie
frustrated total reflection
glycol monoformate
gyro-compasses
hardly ever
heart palpitations
Hecht-Weinberg-Gadwohl tests
heinlen
hesses
huzzing
hypothromboplastinemia
infectious mononucleosis
interlacunar margina
International Fund
isolable
Kim Jae Kyu
kleitias
leiosporous
litholatry
Little Manicouagan L.
loaneth
logarithmic mean temperature
macaronicism
making available
maximum likelihood algorithm
MCYD
microalloy-type transistor
mountycle
no solution
nrb
oblique bridge
obstinate desertion
Opuntia monacantha
oxhydryl
paranephrocyte
pasture rose
pattern recognition device
picture-strip
pinch plasma
plastic suture needle
precultured
protecting key projects
radio mirage
rafahs
Randall plaques
rangos
renewed folding
resistanceless
sag tie
sandy mobile bed
sarcinous
send address
short-contact switch
snow-whiter
sponge bed
spunbond
staphylococcal infections
teel
tetrathionic acid
theoryless
thermojunctin
third culture kids
thteonine
to put file in order
toss a hat in the ring
two machine jumbo
up-side-down
vehicle major repair
Violite
visual instrumentation subsystem