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 cake of
antisnitching
asteromphalus flabellatus
asynchronized
back seat rail
balance(d) control
brazil nuts
budded
cancerism
carbon bisulphide
characteristic of a developable surface
cheilopalatognathus
chivalresque
clockwork mechanism
constant rate
cream essence
cupach
damage to ship
diploneis weissflogii
ejectile
electromagneticwatch
emotional stupor
Eulerian chain
eyeshots
ferro-manganese
flat-size
flobbed
flood victims
freight source
full-cantilever wing
galactorrh(o)ea
Garcke
get out of someone's road
girillian
half-immunoglobulin
homogamic
hydrocarbons monitor
I.R.
initiating unit
inspire with
laser optoacoustic method
lepismatids
liboensis
list-systems
Lochy, Loch
matchplay
medical chemistry
mental tension
meteorpathic reaction
micromelia
molecular relaxation
monk vultures
mound shaped curve
Neapolitan sixth
New Liskeard
nonbeach
numerical reading
O. D. T.
one-off payment
one-velocity transport equation
original sentence
outer arm
outlet head loss
overload detector
packet priority
parallel waterline
particle irradiation test
pennsylvania state
perceiving type
phoenicaceous
piston looling system
plumbagos
plus-factor
postbehavioral
radioactive clock
real-time performance monitor
savicevics
school work
script handwriting
second-order hexagonal prism
selenophysical phenomena
semblancies
shantihs
smilanippin
sonnenblick
special (design)door
sulfoprotein
supercargoes
supplementary log book
tetraacetate
the plain
tomelleri
top bearing cover
toricellian vacuum
totos
transcreate
uncertainty sample survey
unemployably
vanfuls
Waltrop
wave energy of sea floor
West Wind Drift