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
'my
admission department
adrenocytolytic
agricultural statistics
Antaisu
are you feeling better
armored hose
balloon skirt
bloodstone
booked into
carbon back
catapliite(katapliite)
churchgoer
cicatricial alopecia
cleansweep
collar bush
commissioning test
competitifs
controller storage save
current on upset allowance
diplo-
disposintion of installment obligations
dorus
economy led by the public sector
eiruvin
emancipatress
employee-benefit
end up in smoke
energy period
flight from currency
foregardens
forthwise
fuel stringer
gas liquified refinery
genus Aegypius
genus drynarias
genus loganias
gluteus minimus
Gotar lens
hepatosis
hew out
homolgy
idioagglutinin
Igalamia
ilex paraguayensis Lambert.
in the trust of somebody
information distribution system
ironic error
isoenzyme nomenclature
lemon soda
low-dose
main-beam efficiency
manitruncus
Mariposan
me-ness
mesud
metalloelastases
midfielder
misevents
multialphabet
muscles of lower limb
nick translation
nondistributed system architecture communication
nonsignificant interaction
out-of-band discovery
overpoliticization
passiflora passion flower
phenoxypropanediol
phone service
picter
pilot manufacturing
pityriasis varioliformis chronica
polystyrene gel
Praia do Norte
prologuized
Pusa, R.
quasi derelict
raise-boring machine
ramsbotham
scaling question
self-healing fuse
shafaq
Sherrington's solution
signs of the zodiac
stockpile
stuff your face
suffer hell on earth
sympathin (sympathin i)
Taimali Township
take sth hard
tensioning pulley
Thomas Cromwell
total expense
two-point cross
ultimate shear
variable grade terrace
Veh.
velocity anti-resonance
vine spring
wearing floor
Xinshi Township
zeuxis hirasei