时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:常春藤生活英语


英语课

Destination: Florida 前进佛罗里达


Dialogue A


Dale and Becky are heading to the beach.


Becky:It sure is a beautiful day today, Dale.

Dale:You're right. It's perfect weather for riding a Jet Ski.

Becky:Yes! That sounds fantastic. Can we get one with two seats?

Dale:Of course. Then we can take turns driving it around.

Becky:I haven't been this excited since our first trip together.

Dale:What about the time I took you to see the ballet1?

Becky:That was good, too.


戴尔和贝齐正前往海边。


贝 琪:戴尔,今天真是风和日丽的一天呢。

戴 尔:说的对。今天的天气骑水上摩托车再理想不过了。

贝 琪:对!听起来棒透了。我们可以找一辆两人坐的吗?

戴 尔:当然。那我们就可以轮流骑了。

贝 琪:从我们第一次一起去旅行到现在,我还没这么兴奋过。

戴 尔:那我带妳去看芭蕾舞那次呢?

贝 琪:那也很棒。


Dialogue B


Dale and Becky are negotiating the price with Bo, the man who rents Jet Skis.


Bo:You can rent one for $50 per hour or $200 for the whole day.

Becky:What do you think, Dale?

Dale:Let's split the cost and rent one for the whole day. I think that will give us plenty of time to have a blast.

Becky:You're right.

Bo:OK. The whole day it is. Do you have a credit card that you can use to pay a deposit2?

Dale:Let me fetch my wallet.


戴尔和贝齐正跟海边租水上摩托车的阿宝议价。


阿 宝:你们可以花五十元租一小时,或是花两百元租一整天。

贝 琪:戴尔,你觉得呢?

戴 尔:咱们各出一半,租一整天好了。我想那样我们会有足够时间来玩个尽兴。

贝 琪:说的对。

阿 宝:好的。那就是一整天啰。你们有信用卡可以用来付押金吗?

戴 尔:我拿一下皮夹。


Building Your Vocabulary


1.negotiate vt. 协商,谈判

We sat down to negotiate the terms of our contract.

我们坐了下来,就合约上的条件进行协商。


2.split vt. 均分,分摊(三态同形)

My roommate and I split the bills every month.

我室友和我每个月都会分摊账单。


3.fetch vt. 去取来(= go and bring)

Henry's dog can fetch the newspaper for him.

亨利的狗能帮他去拿报纸。


Phrases for Learning


1.head to...  前往……

Where are you heading to?

你要去哪里?


2.take turns + 动名词  轮流……

Let's take turns doing the dishes.

我们轮流洗碗吧。


3.have a blast  狂欢

We had a blast at the party last night.

昨晚我们在派对上玩得很尽兴。


参考字词


1.ballet n. 芭蕾舞(剧)

2.deposit n. 押金,保证金


Enjoy Box


美国的佛罗里达州(Florida)向来给予人们一种热情有活力的印象。事实上,早在数百年前,这里便被视为青春的象征。公元1513年,西班牙探险家庞赛?德莱昂(Ponce de León)为了寻找传说中的青春之泉(Fountain of Youth),而来到了现今佛罗里达的东北角海岸。映入德莱昂眼帘的,尽是一幕幕百花盛开的景象。因此,他便以西班牙文中的La Florida为此地命名,意即『多花的』。随后,西班牙和法国殖民者便在佛罗里达建立了殖民地。其中于1565年建立的圣奥古斯丁(St. Augustine)成为欧洲人在北美洲最早建立的殖民地之一。公元1845年,佛罗里达正式加入了美国,成为美国的第二十七个州。如今,佛罗里达是美国最多观光客的州之一。位于佛州中部的奥兰多(Orlando)是必经的大城,因为最受欢迎的迪斯尼乐园(Disney World)、环球影城(Universal Orlando Resort)、海洋世界(Sea World)皆群聚此地,因而奠定其观光地位。众所皆知的迈阿密(Miami)则位于佛州南部,这里有浓厚的拉丁气氛、浪漫的海滩及精彩的夜生活,您更是千万不能错过。


Tips In Use


It's perfect weather for riding a Jet Ski.

(今天的天气骑水上摩托车再理想不过了。)


Jet Ski 原为一家专门制造水上摩托车的公司名称。由于其产品既普及又受喜欢,致使 Jet Ski 一辞成为水上摩托车的代名词。以下为各位列举同为此例的各个公司或产品名称:


Q-tips → 棉花棒 Jeep → 吉普车

Frisbee → 飞盘 Xerox → 复印机

Band-Aid→ OK绷 Kleenex → 面纸

Walkman → 随身听 Post-it Note → 立贴便条



学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars