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
abdil
accumulating condenser
address parity error
adsorb
airconditioning system
alveolar hydatid disease
angelically
ankle bone (or astragalus)
arcury
autocatalytic growth
beaten on
bendin'
cold-cathode magnetron gauge
colloidal particle
company-wide quality control (cwqc)
condenser loudspeaker
current filament
danger control process
db.
dihydroxypropyl bismuthate
Dingxiang Shidi Tang
double-gate
electrochemical growth
equilibrium about rolling axis
euhemicera foveoseriata
ex seller's godown
fail-store mode
formol-gel tests
Franz Seraph Peter Schubert
froise
gargouillade en dehors
gentlewomanliness
glass-tube manometer
gyro-theodolite
hold-outs
horizontal turn
hot cold-working
huggiest
I am twenty years old
ideal coordinates
in the ordinary course of things
Istiophorus albicans
IVR - interactive voice response
laser microanalysis
lookup list
make suit to
market-penetration pricing
meribels
metaball
metaboreceptors
moldiwarp
NSC-12198
oligomerizes
overall central information problem
p-aminobenzohydrol
palembangs
Pallagorio
past perfect tenses
PDC (power distribution control)
periodic operating test of steam turbine
photosyntomete
platinogold
poor look
posteruptive
pressure spring
promenades
PS-K
radio active material
rebutters
receiving department expenses
Recessus ileocecalis superior
repier
salt cod
series damping resistor
silver permanganate
single-phase AC synchronous alternator
size test
smkls.
steric randomness
stratigraphical heave (stratigraphical break)
superplastically
sylk
tail poles
teleterminal
telinavir
tetracenomycin
thumbup
tiger sweat
tinmine
toothed bar type self loading forage box
trionychid
Tsunyi
umbrella prop
underport
upkeep charges
verticillis parlatoriae
VM (virtual memory)
wash box
wave generator of positive control
white holes
wildwood
withdrawing money