时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Recovering After a Setback 1 


Carl: Come on, let’s go. I have $500 burning a hole in my pocket. 


Shelly: Where are we going? 


Carl: We’re going to the track. I have a tip on a sure thing for one of this afternoon’s races. This is exactly what I need after last week’s setback. 


Shelly: You mean after losing all of your money last week. 


Carl: Right, but all I need to do is to get that monkey off my back and then I’ll have a reversal of fortune. Winning big this afternoon will be the start of a new winning streak 2


Shelly: Maybe what happened last week is really a sign of things to come. Maybe it was the start of a losing streak. 


Carl: Don’t jinx me with that kind of negativity. I’ve always believed that when you meet with a setback, come back with all you’ve got. 


Shelly: Does that mean what I think it means? 


Carl: Yes, that’s right. I’m plunking down all $500 on that race. I can’t lose. 


Shelly: But what if – 


Carl: Don’t say another word. When I win and get back in my stride 3, you can say, “Congratulations!” 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 setback
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
2 streak
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
  • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
  • Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹?
3 stride
vi.大踏步走,阔步行进;n.大步,步态
  • In a big stride he came out of the room.他一个箭步出了房间。
  • The boy walked with a confident manly stride.这男孩以自信的男人步伐行走。
学英语单词
analogous transistor
anisotropic substance
antislump
bipolar analog process
biseptate
bomb proof
breathalysing
buhbye
cadmium complex
camera with eyepiece
Carpentaria, Gulf of
caterpiller grinder
CCO
China Democratic National Construction Association
clusterers
computer-memory
conference television system
controllable pitch screw
Corner Brook
courtliest
Cystacanthus
davidite-(Ce)
demand-pull inflations
democratica
Dendropanax bilocularis
depot receptacles
despitesoun
differential drive tachometer
differentiated wave
duty to rear and educate children
eggshell skull rule
estrayed
exhaust side
finned-tube radiator
fly-spray
focal setting
frumious
FTO
geniculum of facial nerve
ghost aspect
glycerophosphate tests
Great Ice Age
grotberg
hallibut
hardware product
high-tensile meterial
hit squads
hydraulic cleaning
hydrolysing
hyper reactive
hypersonic missile
i-gaderen
ildre
inlaid pavement
interformational fold
ironworks
isoballast lines
Kasper
kiesling
lbid
Liam
linear-logarithmic intermediate frequency amplifier
medium grey
micro-demography
micro-world
moke
multiple-point pencil
not get ... anywhere
Nuri as-Said
OSlav
overgrate air
pilot-line production
pledge one's troth
plimsol
powdered crystal method
prepontile
quinine dihydrochloridum
ragmen
regenerative repeator
rhopalomastix omotoensis
ritualistic communication
rubidium peroxysulfate
run into the sands
sacrifiers
schedule of finished goods
ship engineering
singularity functions
Sintra
slaintes
spare transformator
Squinzano
supershell
switching capacity filter
thymidinediphosphate
tournefortia sibirica l.
Tōhoro-gawa
vasodila(ta)tion
Waiya
well-sanded
wheel guard clamp
wowzah