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
a parte ante
absolute increase of major industrial products
access lock
acephalans
agitation
aikau
anarae
angle of the V-groove
Aotus
armies of the confederacy
artificaial horizon
attrition loss of catalyst
auditory teeth
beam-lead bonding
Berger's method
book confirnation
bowfront
Cayratia timoriensis
Chin-chou
cinnamomum loureiriis
circulating indicator
cloudifies
collecting cell
conchas
court-lodge
crystalline lens
deattributing
decadic
degradation reaction
direct-image plate
dorper
drops that
effacement of cervical canal
equilibrium time
galactic gas and dust
general-purpose shop truck
graveship
Heinrich Boell
Inco-ordinate
inferior rectal vein
interference in election
Islandian
karissa
Kataouane
king pawn
kinswell
know a trick worth two of that
kune
laundered money
line of pipes
loosening-up
magnetic circuit theorem
management intelligence
manjuice
mckeachie
methaniazid(e)sodium
MTRE (magnetic tape record end)
natural tannin
o-r-g
oenolin
olivaceous-umber
onomatopoeiae
Osuchy
paleudalf
pancreectomy
peroxydasis
person to person
pestility
pholidosaurids
poker-players
ponticus
pot stirrers
prendre
pressure part,pressure element
pseudospins
publically
rainbow body
ramanand
re-enrich
reading level
reprovisions
Rotala pusilla
scrape acquaintance with
second-divisions
sopinka
stack moulding
stem timber
store-level
streetsia challengeri
Sutton-Gull's disease
tangential corner firing
terrestrial ambient noise
test grading
unopsonized
v.b.
valve voltage regulator
virtual memory concept
voice unit
war of aggression
water blushing
whirl velocity
works fund