【一起听英语】烤鸡
很多喜欢吃烤鸡，他们喜欢吃烤鸡的同时加入烤土豆和蔬菜还有各种调料，听着就留口水了......
Jennifer: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm
Jennifer and with me today is Rob.
Rob: Hello there.
Jennifer: Now, Rob, are you a fan of roast chicken?
Rob: Definitely. There’s nothing better than a lovely roast chicken on a Sunday,
with all the trimmings, of course!
Jennifer: Indeed. The trimmings are the foods that accompany the chicken. Here in
the UK, people traditionally eat roast potatoes and vegetables with their
chicken, as well as stuffing.
Rob: Stuffing is a mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs which is stuffed, or
pushed, inside the roast chicken. And it is delicious!
Jennifer: Well, you might be surprised to learn that today’s story is about stuffing
roast chickens with something rather different… But first, a quiz question,
I think!
Rob: It wouldn’t be 6 Minute English without a quiz question, would it?
Jennifer: Here goes. The chicken is thought to be the closest living relative to an
extinct species – that’s a species which no longer exists, or has died out.
Now, which species is it?
a) The dodo
b) The tyrannosaurus rex
c) The pterodactyl
Rob: Well I’m going to say the dodo, because it looks a bit like a chicken.
Jennifer: As usual, we’ll find out if you’re right at the end of the programme. Let’s
return to our story now, which is all about a failed attempt at drug
Rob: Hang on! I thought you said today’s programme was about stuffing roast
chickens?
Jennifer: It is. Our story is about a Nigerian man, living in Brazil, who was
struggling to earn a decent living.
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Rob: So, in other words, he didn’t earn a lot of money.
Jennifer: The man had been working as a mechanic in Brazil, but decided 2 he could
earn more money if he smuggled 4 drugs to sell back in his native country
of Nigeria.
Rob: If you smuggle 3 goods in or out of a country, you bring them in without
the authorities’ knowledge. Drug smuggling is, of course, illegal.
Jennifer: Let’s listen to the first part of a report by BBC correspondent Leana Hosea.
How did the mechanic try to smuggle drugs into Nigeria?
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A Nigerian mechanic has been caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Lagos airport,
Nigeria, attempting to smuggle $150,000 worth of cocaine 5 in roast chickens.
Investigators 6 say they found over 2.5kg of the unusual stuffing, wrapped up in tin foil,
egg-shaped packages.
Rob: So that’s where the roast chickens come in. The mechanic tried to
conceal 7, or hide, the cocaine inside the chickens.
Jennifer: He was very inventive, or creative, as he hid the drugs in egg-shaped
packages.
Rob: It’s certainly risky 8, though. So why did he try to bring $150,000 worth of
drugs into Nigeria?
Jennifer: Well, it seems he had a plan for the money. Here’s the second part of
Leana Hosea’s report: listen out for what he planned to do with the money.
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They called it a remarkable 9 seizure 10, saying they never expected to find thousands of
dollars’ worth of drugs in roast chickens. The suspect had flown in from Brazil, where he
had been allegedly struggling to make a decent living for years. A spokesman for the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says this was the suspect's retirement 11 plan,
and he had been hoping to start a business with the drug sales.
Rob: The money was part of the man’s retirement plan. A retirement plan is
something you arrange to do when you retire, or stop working. It often
involves saving lots of money.
Jennifer: He wanted to start a business, but the drugs were seized, or taken, by
authorities before he got the chance.
Rob: We also heard in the report that the seizure of the drugs was remarkable,
or unusual, because the authorities didn’t expect so many drugs to be
hidden.
Jennifer: Smugglers are using increasingly imaginative ways to conceal their drugs.
Rob: Recently the Nigerian authorities have found drugs hidden in the lining 12 of
suitcases, in wigs 13 and even in a doctor’s stethoscope!
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Jennifer: Let’s listen to the final part of the report now. What are the Nigerian
authorities using to help spot the drug carriers?
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Nigeria is a major transit 14 point for drugs, but the authorities have made efforts to
improve security after a Nigerian man was discovered on a plane to Detroit, attempting
to explode a bomb in his underpants three years ago. The Nigerian authorities say
airport body scanners have helped identify more than one hundred drug carriers last
year.
Rob: The authorities have used body scanners to help spot the drug
smugglers. Body scanners are machines which can detect whether you are
carrying any illegal substances.
Jennifer: It’s really an ongoing 15 battle, but they are trying to improve security,
particularly at airports.
Rob: Thankfully the drugs hidden inside the chickens did not make it into the
country this time.
Jennifer: Indeed. Now, speaking of chickens, we need to wrap up the quiz before
the end of the programme. The chicken is the closest relative to an extinct
species. Is it:
a) The dodo
b) The Tyrannosaurus Rex
c) The Pterodactyl
Rob: I said the dodo – am I right?
Jennifer: You were actually wrong I’m afraid, but good reasoning! The chicken is
actually the closest living relative of the gigantic and terrifying dinosaur 16,
the tyrannosaurus rex!
Rob: I’ll never look at a chicken, or eat a chicken, in the same way again!
Jennifer: We’ve just got time to recap some of the vocabulary we’ve heard in
today’s programme.
Rob: The words we heard were:
stuffing
extinct
smuggle
conceal
inventive
retirement plan
seized
remarkable
Jennifer: Join us again for more 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com. Bye
for now!
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- 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。
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
- He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。
- It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险，但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
- He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
- The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
- The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。
- She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
- I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
- The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
- Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。
- They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
- Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。