时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

  Larry打算请很多人来家里做客,李华在帮他策划这个大party。他们会用到两个说法:stoked和bummer.

Larry: OK, so we'll need about two dozen hamburgers, 20 pounds of ribs 2, a cheese platter, 4 bags of potato chips, potato salad, and....what am I missing 3?

LH: 还能缺什么啊?你说的这些东西,足够我吃一个礼拜了!我说Larry,你到底要请多少客人啊?

Larry: There should be around 40 people here. It's going to be great. I'm so stoked!

LH: Stoked? 什么意思?

Larry: Yeah, stoked, s-t-o-k-e-d, stoked. It means 4 to be really excited about something.

LH: Oh, Stoked就是特别兴奋,特别激动的意思。

Larry: That's right. I'm really looking forward to this party. In other words, you could say I'm super stoked! It's going to be so much fun. Aren't you stoked, Lihua?

LH: 怎么说呢?I'm kind of stoked. 我也挺兴奋的,不过Larry, 你请那么多人,等派对结束后,这里肯定乱糟糟的。

Larry: Oh, don't worry about that. You'll help me clean after the party, right?

LH: 啊?!还要我帮忙收拾?

Larry: Oh, and I forgot to tell you. I'm stoked about the DJ I hired for the party.

LH: 你还请了个DJ混音师?

Larry: Yea, he's an old friend from high school. He told me he's got quite a lot of fans around town these days.

LH: 我看出来了,这场Party人又多,音乐又是吵哄哄的摇滚乐,而我还得负责事后清理战场的工作。现在想起来我都头疼。I can't say that I'm stoked quite yet.

Larry: Still not stoked? OK, what if I told you that my friend Brian will be there? You know, the guy who is in charge of interns 5 at the company you want to work for?

LH: 啊?Brian要来?我特想去他们公司实习,你一定帮我介绍!

Larry: No problem. I'll ask him to help you get the internship 6 at his company.

LH: Awesome 7! Now I'm stoked! Larry, 让我们投入战斗吧!

******

Larry 和李华尽心准备的派对开始了,可是却出了点小状况....

LH: Larry, 牛肉饼烤得怎么样啦?我等着做汉堡包呢!

Larry: Not too bad. They're just cooking a little slower than I thought. I guess my grill 8 is too small. It's OK, though! I'm still stoked for the party!

LH: Larry! 你看看,烧烤架下面根本就没有火!你是不是没有瓦斯啦?

Larry: Oh, no! You're right! What a bummer!

LH: Bummer? 你是说bum 1,懒鬼吗?

Larry: No. Not bum, bummer! A bummer is bad news, or something that makes you upset - like running out of gas when you need to cook for 40 people!

LH: 哦!A bummer就是坏消息。瓦斯用完,你没法烤肉, 真是个好大的bummer啊。不过你也不用着急,现在只有一个客人,就是你那个高中同学,现在很红的那个DJ.

Larry: Wait a minute. This music is from our DJ? This music is for little kids - I thought the neighbors must be having a birthday party for their five-year-old daughter.

LH: 不是,你听到的就是DJ放的音乐,他说他的专长就是给学校活动造气氛,所以用的都是儿童音乐......

Larry: What a bummer!! Ugh, this party is turning into a disaster! No one's here, I can't cook the food, and the DJ sounds like he's from Sesame Street!

LH: 没关系,只要你朋友Brian能来,我就知足啦!我可得好好表现,争取让他给我实习的机会! I'm really stoked to meet him!

Larry: I don't know, Lihua. No one has showed up! I was so stoked about this party.... now the whole thing is just a big bummer. (Sigh) Maybe I wrote the wrong date on the invitation...(doorbell rings)

Larry: Brian is here.

LH: Oh thank god.

Larry: Hey Brian, how are you?

Brian: Hey, Larry, good to see you again! This must be Lihua. I've heard so much about you!

LH: Oh, really....All good things, I hope.

Larry: Actually, Lihua is looking for an internship this summer. Do you think your company would have an opening for her?

Brian: My company? I didn't tell you, Larry? I left my job a year ago. I'm a grad student now!

LH: 啊啊啊?你一年前就辞职不干啦?现在回学校念书去了?What a bummer!

今天李华学到了两个常用语,stoked意思是兴奋,激动,还有bummer意思是坏消息。



1 bum
n.臀部;流浪汉,乞丐;vt.乞求,乞讨
  • A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him.在火车上有人捏她屁股,她打了那人。
  • The penniless man had to bum a ride home.那个身无分文的人只好乞求搭车回家。
2 ribs
n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹
  • He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
  • Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。
3 missing
adj.遗失的,缺少的,失踪的
  • Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具,看有无丢失。
  • All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了,就短他一个。
4 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
5 interns
n.住院实习医生( intern的名词复数 )v.拘留,关押( intern的第三人称单数 )
  • Our interns also greet our guests when they arrive in our studios. 我们的实习生也会在嘉宾抵达演播室的时候向他们致以问候。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • The interns work alongside experienced civil engineers and receive training in the different work sectors. 实习生陪同有经验的国内工程师工作,接受不同工作部门的相关培训。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
6 internship
n.实习医师,实习医师期
  • an internship at a television station 在电视台的实习期
  • a summer internship with a small stipend 薪水微薄的暑期实习
7 awesome
adj.令人惊叹的,难得吓人的,很好的
  • The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
  • That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
8 grill
n.烤架,铁格子,烤肉;v.烧,烤,严加盘问
  • Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.放在烤架下烤一分钟把上面烤成金黄色。
  • I'll grill you some mutton.我来给你烤一些羊肉吃。
学英语单词
adaptive metallurgy
administration of justice in water
Alfonso XI
amy tan
antenna signal distribution
as easy asABC
automobile tail light
avian infectious bronchitis virus
banning-order
bigsun
bioexplorers
block strop
books-on-tape
born days
bridge test car
catholiques
cement for dam
chemical sensory system
co-advice
coccinellidae
cockarouse
colliers' stripes
computer design
difference of arcing time
differential cost benefit analysis
electrode-extension
emergency tyre sleeve
ethyl potassium
eye-holes
fetus in fetu
Ficus hookeriana
freehold
French and Indian War
glass sealing-packing equipment
goodfella
heat treating process
heat-actuated fire door
hematine (crystal)
hepadna
high precision gear hobber
high tin fillet
impact angle
inchambering
instinctive reflex
law of facilitation
limbach
Lithocarpus pasania
Livaditis procedure
miscellaneum
modulus of volume expansion
monaxial
motion pictures
multifunction synthesizer
myoglobinuric
nepheline shonkinite
nonresponder
normalizing line
on-demand publishing
oxycedar
Pachelma
partially ordered set
permanent emplacement
peroneus longus
pillow talk
plastic washer
portname
pumil
punches
ramp input
rasabox
reservation station
retrograde tendency
Rhododendron balfourianum
right to harvest
segment sharing
sensory pits
separate optical element
simplex iteration
sow box
spring oats
standard bone meal
Stibii
subject matter of the proceeding
synthetic earth
Tetrastigma cruciatum
thermal loading
threelegged
thyra
topological field
transversus abdominis muscles
true to type
tsuruta
Tuamotu Fracture Zone
tweaking
unbroken curve
vinyl sulfone group
weider
Weisserz
well-farmed
white marked spider beetle
work-ethics
zeugmatic