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。
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.ck
accredit party
active discipline
adambulacral spine
adjustable fin
agitative
agricultural pump
algesl receptor
apoplectiform deafness
Attlee, Clement Richard
Bir Sālim
bois d'arcs
bush metal
carbosant
charcoal canister
close-up mark
coarse martensite
Columbia Road Res.
complex flow
compressed-iron powder core
counterfeitingly
cut size
Datura metel
debubblizer
dentotropic
derling
Desmodium rubrum
diffusion attachment
dilution of equity
droplet condensation
effective rate method
estimated flying time (eft)
excessive compensation
exhaust period
external thoracic artery
flavicin
flow camera
folic acid deficiency anemia
foundation of geometry
foundereth
foundry-pit
genus Hypochoeris
hadron barrier
Heinkenborstel
hell-fire
herringbone pavement
i'nt
in-out parameter
integrated eclectic model
internal stripping section
kanats
ketoaciduria
latched group
licensing criterion
linear pattern
low-road
membrane pack
merrimen
miaous
micro-donation
native place
non local interactions
odd-function
one old cat
ordering about
outside interests
overstory
plutonic intrusive facies
poison sb's mind
press packing
Puerto Heath
Rekhino
resubordinates
rotary crystal method
saved resource limits
Separate Text With
set out something
show-through
signal corps specialty mark
skeletals
stage relation
sterization
stoopball
sudanophil
surface-to-underwater missile (sum)
surstylar
Swinburne Ice Shelf
technical pure grade
telligraph
Tellyesniczky's fluid
tetouan (tetuan)
the Cowles foundation for Research in Economics
total capital of society
trace a rumour to its source
tumo(u)r serology
umbriferous
waxen chatterers
weekfish
Wittgensteinianism
wood worker's clamp
yanot-