时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:话匣子英语


英语课

上次节目采访了哈皮,让我们对哈皮有了个大致了解。这次我们采访的是毛拉,让我们来了解一下毛拉吧


Harp 1: Yes. Today I’m interviewing Maura. Last week, she interviewed me. We think this is a good idea for all of you to learn a little bit more about us, especially because there are a lot of new listeners 2 who might not know lots about us.


 


Maura: Right. It might be a New Year’s resolution 3 to start listening to an English podcast, and you might just have tuned 4 in. So now is your chance to get to know Harp and me a little bit more.


 


Harp: Yes. So let’s get started. Now, Maura, why don’t you tell us a little bit more about you. Where did you grow up?


 


Maura: Well, I was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. And my parents and even my grandparents were born in Canada, which is actually pretty rare 5. And I lived there most of my life, until I went to university. Then I moved to a city called Guelph and I went to university there. After that, I travelled around a whole bunch 6, and then I ended up in Montreal.


 


Harp: Sounds exciting. Now, tell me about Kitchener because I’ve never been there. I know it’s close to Toronto, but was it fun growing up there?


 


Maura: It was fun. I mean, of course I had lots of friends but it was very suburban 7. And usually I answer this question by something that I read in a travel guide once. One of my friends, who was Australian, had a travel guide to Canada and I was curious 8 and I looked up Kitchener in the travel guide. And the advice actually was that unless it was Oktoberfest, Kitchener wasn’t a place worth visiting. And it’s a bit sad and funny, but it’s true. Kitchener used 9 to be called Berlin and it has—still has—a lot of German people. And so in the month of October, we have a really big Oktoberfest. It’s the second biggest Oktoberfest, next to the one in Germany, so it’s a pretty big deal. We also have something that’s interesting outside of Kitchener. We have lots of cute little small towns. And we also have a really famous market called the St. Jacobs Market. What’s really cool about this market is there are a lot of Mennonites who sell food and clothes and crafts 10 at this market. And so outside of Kitchener, you can see Mennonites. They’re a rare group of people to see and it’s interesting to see these kinds of people.


 


Harp: Very interesting. I had no idea the Oktoberfest was that big. We should go one time.


 


Maura: Yeah. We should. It’s pretty fun.



1 harp
n.竖琴;天琴座
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
  • He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
2 listeners
n.倾听者,收听者( listener的名词复数 );听众
  • the demographics of radio listeners 电台听众统计数据
  • The singer's high notes jarred on the ears of her listeners. 那位歌手的高音让听众们觉得刺耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 resolution
n.坚定,决心,决心要做的事,决定,决议
  • You must stand to your resolution.你一定要坚守你的决心。
  • I still haven't given up my resolution to do more reading.我仍然还没有放弃多看些书的决心。
4 tuned
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 rare
adj.稀罕的,罕有的,珍贵的,稀薄的,半熟的,非常的;adv.非常
  • It is rare to see a man over 160 years old.很少见到一个人能活到160岁。
  • The zoo has a lot of rare animals in it.这个动物园有许多珍奇的动物。
6 bunch
n.串,束;群,帮
  • A bunch of girls was[were] sitting on the grass.一群女孩坐在草地上。
  • I received a bunch of flowers yesterday.昨天我收到了一束鲜花。
7 suburban
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
8 curious
adj.好奇的,求知的,古怪的
  • I heard a curious sound in the room.我在房间里听到奇怪的声音。
  • He puts forward so many curious questions.他提出这么多稀奇古怪的问题。
9 used
adj.用旧了的,旧的;习惯于…;过去惯/经常
  • I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
  • He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。
10 crafts
n.工艺( craft的名词复数 );行业;飞机;飞行器
  • traditional crafts like basket-weaving 像编篮子之类的传统工艺
  • an arts and crafts emporium 工艺品商店
学英语单词
acculturational
Ahok
air servicer
air tube connector
allylisulfocarbamide
Alyssum lenense
annealing kiln
anti-detonant
arggh
bainitic
bank eligible bonds
birdsat
body persecution
butter knife
chin implant
cotton ball cloud
crankcase mayonnaise
crime of affray
crow pram
current collecting equipment with liquid metal
dilettanteish
Distoma hepaticum
DJC
drawing-in machine
elingued
epidihydrocholesterin
even zonal harmonics
exclusive-NOR gate
Fenmetrazin
fetichises
flowind
galula
gavots
glyco-nucleoprotein
group technology code
head-emptier
heat sensimeter
hyperbolic variational inequation
hypersensitive angiitis
impact matrix
Inner Manchuria
inscription on a tablet
interactive placement
Irurita
keesee
Kraynovka
lateral distal mandibular
layettes
layzer
ligmentum popliteum arcuatum
limits of audition
loflucarban
M.Ap.L.
metzincins
minimum-size
Nam Ha
nominal pressure rating
one-block
package management system
people's
photo typography
platinum resistance thermometry
Platt.
plot a distance
plumb perpendicular
predations
premature eruption of tooth
prison gangs
psychosociology
puts together
rectalox glaberi
respiratory environment
restored nonevent
Roulans
Samaritan Pentateuch
shaping amplifier
shipments sent
sill splicing
simple analytic function
somniferum
sound source room
spider-web antenna
spot radiation source
sunshine pill
Swainsona salsula
Syncalathium disciforme
tapman
tea-dancer
telepathising
tensor geometry
thromboresistant
to bake
toll communication network
tracer compound
travelblogs
ultrapure material
underinflated
use exertions
vaginal discharges
Veterans Affairs
vittore carpaccio
Vygozero, Ozero