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
a narrow scrape
AC current calibra-tor
advance and retreat
aegirinolite
airlift culture
albert diagonal
animal membrane
archaeological chemistry
back-blading
Baisalina
ball-tampering
bikable
bliue
Boguchwała
bovinaes
burst cloud band
Calatagan
catch someone out
caudectomy
clamant
contra-conscient
cost account
crosswind diffusion
deed of cession
devins
diggy
direction plane
dirtbike
disaccustom to
disc floret
double-thong
doubled up swinging booms
drag leveling course
drumcrees
dwell operation control unit
Elizabethanism
Emilia javanica
Erdkobalt
fixed pointer
fraenotomia
golden seals
Gossypium hirsutum
Haloragidaceae
hammer sth home
inbar
interference visibility
interflowed
ion-exchange reaction
knocks around
London Lighthouse
malloprenol
Margosatubig
mechanic's lien
month jumper spring
NASMV
neon diode counter
Nicholl's Town
nocturnal epilepsy
normally open (hydraulic)
nykanen
off the bone
ondimba
pan-Serbism
Pantoi
permanent hybrid
pissah
pointe claire
primordial meristem
rambert dance company
razza
resistance electro slag welding
rosekrans
Safed Koh
sapo durus
scotch laburnums
seances
semiconductor paint
sequential stochastic programming
seven-acres
silage motor chain saw
snap-on ammeter
software availability
spiced beef
stripe braid
successive intervals method
sygh
test of nonverbal intelligence
the lady of shalott
type-printed telegraphy
uncial
undertrial
unit separator
ureteral fissure
virgin tape
waffle arm
Waspishness
wicqueforts
work island
yoke tower single anchor leg mooring
zoneplate telescope
zoogeographical realms
zoom