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
8 bits
AC pulse polarography
agar plate method
air cushion craft
Antimon-Pyrochlore
apportionable part
arc into time unit conversion
axial plane of wormwheel
ayins
band 8
be critical
bendas
Breakdown Value Clause
carbon monoxide-oxygen fuel cell
check source
Cheyne-Stokes sign
clock-making
colo(u)r analyser
common data network
coplanarities
Cremanthodium nobile
currency gain or loss for exchange
d-narwedine
deamidation
decumanal
dicyanide
differentiated rock
engine reversing gear
erlandsson
etiquette
every now and every once in a while
extreme span
far pommel
freeze point
fully
general average apportionment
group wage system
gusset base
houseplant
HSB (high speed buffer)
incure a reprimand
indigena
interstitial element
Iranian capital
is in service
Jamanxim, R.
kolsoom
landmark case
legal required field intensity
lengthening of chordae tendineae
load-dropping test
loading bucket
low-frequency fatigue testing machine
Lüdersburg
magnetometive
microdermatome
micromelting point apparatus
mucolytic enzyme
multiply connection
muses (greece)
Münster-Osnabrück, Flughafen
nondeceitful
nondiminishment
off-line test and diagnostic system
oscillating trough
overreliances
paleophytologists
papillomas
piano bench
piston action of moving vehicles
pouring head
pressa
pussywhipped
re-evaluation
reemergent
restricted airspace
rockclimbers
ruk
Sandiré
shot sheet
skew-symmetry
smartle
smoothened
South Brook
speakbox
stemflow
stpd (standard temperature pressure dry)
strike force
suit ventilation
surplus line reinsurance
tenty,tentie
Tetlin L.
thujene
top order
two bin inventory system
typical design
ulexites
unlike in
widesread
wireless aerial