时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课

Do you recognise that tune 1? Well, it’s a famous piece of music called Orpheus in the Underworld. And it was written 150 years ago! And who better to tell us more about it than David Price, who’s written a book about it. It’s very difficult to actually identify when it started. It sorted of emerged really, around 1830. From what I can ascertain 2, it seemed to be men who did it first. They sort of introduced a lot more athleticism 3, high kicks, generally prancing 4 about and having a good time. And soon women decided 5 that they wanted to join in too. I guess the petticoats are the most important thing. They’re vintage, very, very vibrant 6, very full and we do lots of petticoat work, lots of frou-frou, as you can hear (sound of material rustling). And we have bespoke 7 corsets and jewellery, and we all have boots obviously with red-trimmed laces. Mandy explains how she trains other girls to do those high-kicks. We use balloons. We start off with somebody holding a balloon and somebody else kicking. And we raise, and raise and raise. And then we give the girls homework to tie the balloon in a doorway 8. And kick and kick and kick until they can remove the balloon. And if you thought the kicks were difficult, take a listen to this! You have to make sure you’re extremely warm and well-trained, and once you reach that edge, as long as you’re warmed up it’s not difficult. And there’s a psychological part to it. People are quite frightened. Even when you can do the splits, to run and launch yourself and jump into them is quite a psychological leap from just gently going down into the splits. So it is quite hard.



1 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
2 ascertain
vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清
  • It's difficult to ascertain the coal deposits.煤储量很难探明。
  • We must ascertain the responsibility in light of different situtations.我们必须根据不同情况判定责任。
3 athleticism
n.运动竞赛,崇尚运动,竞技热
  • He brings defense. He brings talent. He brings athleticism. That's a lot. “他带来的防御,他带来了人才,他带来了身体,这是很多”。 来自互联网
  • Each of these sports isn't won through sheer athleticism alone. 每个体育项目无法凭借纯粹的运动能力而获胜。 来自互联网
4 prancing
v.(马)腾跃( prance的现在分词 )
  • The lead singer was prancing around with the microphone. 首席歌手手执麦克风,神气地走来走去。
  • The King lifted Gretel on to his prancing horse and they rode to his palace. 国王把格雷特尔扶上腾跃着的马,他们骑马向天宫走去。 来自辞典例句
5 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
6 vibrant
adj.震颤的,响亮的,充满活力的,精力充沛的,(色彩)鲜明的
  • He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
  • She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。
7 bespoke
adj.(产品)订做的;专做订货的v.预定( bespeak的过去式 );订(货);证明;预先请求
  • His style of dressing bespoke great self-confidence. 他的衣着风格显得十分自信。
  • The haberdasher presented a cap, saying,"Here is the cap your worship bespoke." 帽匠拿出一顶帽子来说:“这就是老爷您定做的那顶。” 来自辞典例句
8 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
学英语单词
abrasive wheel dresser
Adiantum bellum
air line reservation system
alcedine
aluminum phenolsulfonate
amphozone
annointed
anti-reverse-rotation device
automatic error correcting device
bedtime stories
binary image
bushing shell for transformer
carphenazine
chinese descent
chlorophyll tissure
combustion conditions
commisioner
complicateder
cone-and-socket joint
constrained optimization problem
cotoneaster auiifolius turcz.
curved field
deflexion fold
direct inward dialing (did)
drop-off interval
dynamic evolution
Edgar Springs
emblicanin
energy load
epistles
error criterion
family empetraceaes
financial service industry
finchem
fish in the sea
fleg
genus squaluss
go to ... doom
Heisenberg model
heterodyne oscillators
hierarchic cosmology
high frequency thin film thickness meter
high speed line
housing box
hydrophilic oleomicelle
infrared gas density meters
involute spiral angle
karl lagerfeld
koleroga
low tension current
lysimachia vulgaris l. var. davurica r. kunth
main earthquake
manns
mixer stage
monobasic alcohol
multiwavelength reconfigurable networks
naca airfoil
neoagigenone
Neoaplectana
nevirapines
not hold with
number of passengers despatched
olefine complex
overfiltrations
Passiflora eberhardtii
payment surplus
Pedras Rubras
pendulum
personal expenditure tax
pertinence
phosphosulphates
potassium valerate
pre-eruptive
pure type
put wear a black hat
rbpc
regulons
resockets
rhizosolenia sp.
RSVC
Rudolf III
satellite maintenence technique
scirrhophthalmia
segment sharing
shoprite
sixty-thousand
special taxes deduction
splanchnopleure
squamosum
Stresa
supersluts
technical amendments
tetradecameric
the tickets
ton force
translate into
trotyl
Trypanosoma pecaudi
untruthfulness
vappa
water top
xanthenes