时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:跟着英剧练发音


英语课

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C- Christopher Tietjens


S- Sylvia Satterthwaite


M- Sylvia's mother


F- Father Consett


 


F: The pictures no doubt belong to the hotel's former existence.


S: Was it an abattoir 1?


M: So very sad. In the midst 2 of life... Oh, here we are. There is a night express, you're right. Wagons-lits, dining car, and you'll be at Groby with a day to spare before the funeral. A public appearance together couldn't be more timely 3. My cousin Westershire got wind of something and I was forced to lie to him. As head of the family, the Duke takes it personally when lives become untidy.


S: I'm not going back to Christopher if I have to be in bed by nine o'clock. My own bed, I mean, of course.


F: This was the last place Christianised in Europe. The old pagan demons 4 are still at their work. The sooner you're away from here, the sooner you'll not have such wicked thoughts.


S: They are yours, not mine.



1 abattoir
n.屠宰场,角斗场
  • The sheep were driven to the local abattoir.羊被赶到当地的屠宰场。
  • It was surreal meeting her at the abattoir.竟然会在屠宰场里遇见她,真离奇。
2 midst
n.中部,中间,当中
  • The hut is in the midst of the forest.小屋在森林深处。
  • There is a thief in our midst.我们当中有小偷。
3 timely
adj.及时的,适时的;adv.及时地
  • We are particularly grateful to him for his timely help.我们特别感谢他的及时帮助。
  • Your arrival was most timely yesterday.你们昨天来得非常及时。
4 demons
n.恶人( demon的名词复数 );恶魔;精力过人的人;邪念
  • demons torturing the sinners in Hell 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼
  • He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood. 他为心魔所困扰,那可追溯至他饱受创伤的童年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
1-hexyne
about us
Acidosasa chinensis
active queue
back contamination
bargain on term
barge up against
bitchin'
breadboard intelligent
calaya
cavalry sword
choilopoda disease
chrominance response
clad meltdown
CLEAR STATION
Clifford parallel
commodities
cosine law
counter current ionphoresis
datestone
Dekkera
dispeopler
du jour
ecthyma syphiliticum
electric(al) haulage
electrostatic convergence
enormious
epilepsia procursiva
exotherms
fixed resale price
Folin's method
forbiddeth
FS-478
funcname
game rooms
genus Thunbergia
genus thunnuss
get off the subject
Gulf of Carpentaria
gum cement
hamiltonian hodograph
have a tinker at
hemocytogenesis
high level microprogramming language
impression on
in knee
interstage bushing
ircm (infrared couter measure)
ishare
jackknifing technique
jalardi
Karanpura
lifter case
Limu Atoll
longbow
Maxeys
mimation
motor drive lathe
multimini computer structure
naitly
nonmetallic colour
Nussbaum's experiment
old-agest
operation at undesigned conditions
outriden
overhead efficiency ratio
oxepanes
pale tussock-moth
pithecolobiums
platform and stillage truck
poison valley
polarized magnet
polydeists
possesions
protection by paints and lacquers
pupations
quantitative maturity of principal tree
rare events
relatively-closed set
revealed checks
reverse J-distribution
sand wedges
Schmallenberg
schwandens
senecio cruentuss
Shaykh Yusuf
shore duty
skip hoists
steal along
tank gunnery instruction
TGA
tipped cigar
transfer pair
triangular core
Tyugene
underwing launcher
VANGIDAER
very high density plasma
whale watching
zewe
Zhdanivka
zone-melt