时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Poor Road Conditions 


Alice: I’m really glad I let you talk me into going for a bike ride. It’s been years since I’ve been on a bicycle. 


Sam: This is the only way to travel. You get to really see the scenery and enjoy the fresh air. 


Alice: Hey, watch out! You almost dropped into that huge pothole 1. This asphalt is cracked and the road is all bumpy 2


Sam: Thanks for the warning. Yeah, this asphalt really needs to be repaired. I’d ride on the gravel 3 path instead, but it’s full of ruts. Oh, slow down! There’s a big dip ahead. 


Alice: Whoa! I didn’t see that coming. I almost lost control on that slippery section of road. Sorry, I nearly swerved 4 into you. Are you okay? 


Sam: Yeah, I’m fine. When I suggested this route, I was sure it would be an easy ride since it’s paved all the way. I didn’t bargain for these lousy road conditions. 


Alice: We’ll just have to keep our eyes open and be thankful for these crash helmets! 


Sam: You won’t blame me if you go flying, will you? 


Alice: Not if you break my fall. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 pothole
n.坑,穴
  • As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.车子飞驶过一个坑洼时,她身子猛地向前一倾。
  • The young teacher knows every pothole in the 10-minute ride to school.这位年轻的老师熟悉这条往学校的10分钟路上的每一个坑洞。
2 bumpy
adj.颠簸不平的,崎岖的
  • I think we've a bumpy road ahead of us.我觉得我们将要面临一段困难时期。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
3 gravel
n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石
  • We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
  • More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
4 swerved
v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She swerved sharply to avoid a cyclist. 她猛地急转弯,以躲开一个骑自行车的人。
  • The driver has swerved on a sudden to avoid a file of geese. 为了躲避一队鹅,司机突然来个急转弯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abstinent
alkal(a)emia
analyticities
aprotinin
Arbutal
arsenous compound
astrue
at a low cost
Babcock's clamp
bad urach
bafflingly
band-saw roll stretcher
biogeographers
boot cream
c-2s
Carolans
cellulose acetate rayon
chambered lode
chemical notation
chosisme
clausius (in calorie per degree)
computational cutoff rate
conjugal visitation right
Cross System Product
cut off state
Cyperus rotundus Linn.
dicentrarchus labrax
directly gripping
dracaena terminalis
dysorexia
effective communication
expense centre
fifth columnist
finishing drilling
formal logical system
FrontDoor
gaolbirds
hatlessness
Hohenholte
hoicked
huller rib
hypericine
invalidness
katunda
kingmamboes
Kooline
laser fuze
lifesharers
lithophyses
Lonicera hirsuta
manganous tartrate
maximum travel speed
mEq
minipumps
movie loop
muffle oneself up well
multiple electron
narrowmindedness
net transmission equivalent
nickel-titanium
non-affine deformation
non-circular shaft
noninducible
opossuming
ordinal interaction
par bond
paraboloid method
paramera
personal-liberty laws
Petroselinum crispum tuberosum
pheno-ether resin
polioencephalitis hemorrhagica
polycross seed
protein targeting
quadmire
quasi delicta
rimgale
rotor rocket
schroedinger equation
self-repellency
slignment wire
soemita
straight-set
streamgraphs
submarine pit
synchronous time-division multiplexers
synthetic lubricant fluid
Ségou, Rég.de
temple prostitute
the joys of winter
thirteenthly
tinkering around
to keep one's shirt on
tonoscillograph
train
trophoneurotic
typhus nodule
u-shapes
var. v. ophthalmomeningica
wills act
wooden framed mirror
working atmosphere