时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2015年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

Traveling to a Remote Island 


Leandro: When you said you got a plum job working abroad, I thought you were going to Europe or Asia. Where exactly is Hueller Island? 


Alysson: It?s in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Here, I?ll show you on the map. 


Leandro: Wow, I had no idea you?d be working in such a far-flung place. It?s a bit remote, isn?t it? 


Alysson: It is, but it?s also unspoiled and beautiful. I?ve seen photos and it looks like my idea of paradise 1. See? After I get settled, you should come for a visit. 


Leandro: It looks a little desolate 2. Is it hard to get to? 


Alysson: You would need to take a 19-hour flight from here to the mainland and then a two-day boat ride to reach it. 


Leandro: Aren?t you worried about living in such isolation 3? It?s so far from civilization. 


Alysson: There are other people living on the island, you know, so it?s not like I wouldn?t see another living soul for days. 


Leandro: Oh, I?m glad there?s a community living there. What is the population of Hueller Island? 


Alysson: It?s small, which isn?t unusual for an island this size. 


Leandro: How small? 


Alysson: When I move there, it?ll increase to seven. And if you visit, you?ll make eight. 


Leandro: I?ll give the idea of that trip all the consideration it deserves. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 paradise
n.伊甸乐园,天堂
  • My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院,那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
  • On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。
2 desolate
adj.荒凉的,荒芜的;孤独的,凄凉的;v.使荒芜,使孤寂
  • The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
  • We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后,我们都觉得万分孤寂。
3 isolation
n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
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abutting building
Acrothoracica
aeolian flat
amended bill
angle auger
Applicable Law of the Ship's Mortgage
as ugly as a scarecrow
Blanca, L.
cacao brown
callers
Cecil,(Edgar Algernon) Robert
chart number
chef de cabinet
chordoma
circle trial
coal-sensing probe
coded image
colo-aerogenes bacteria
commissural neurofibers
comprehensive layout
continuous commercial serivice
contrapositive rule
cristy gray
cross-correlated
cross-functionalism
cyclic constraint
dawess
escallop fishery
estinerval
feed pump turbine
ferrotitanite (schorlomite)
filiform needle therapy
Forest Heights
galvanized iron wire gauze
gas oil ratio
gm-csf
Gorlandite
guignardia juglandis sydow ethary
gymnastical
haemodilutions
Haliban
hegeduss
Hexabetalin
HP2
Huntingdon willow
indicator clip
jewel bush
kettle type reboiler
komarowii
lacquered
life-time expenditure
Livarot
lsof
miasmic
misinvoicing
modulo-m
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morse equation
much-appreciateds
muddy road
negatif
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notharctid
official hours
olerud
oosperms
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oxyalkylene
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peg climbing
photoelectric threshold energy
pilloweth
pinhole lens
Polus anterior
propargylglycine
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regulating control rod
renmin
resistivity logging
ribalder
right eye
Rotoma, L.
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scurfiest
self curing binder
shedletsky
shipping inspection
skeletal muscle fiber
spheric float
steam heating tracer
the capital account
the rather
thought up
transfer tunnel
transient acoustical source
tularaemia
underhung portion
uneulogized
venoconstriction
Viňuela
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