时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Li: Chicken or beef?


Male customer: Chicken please.


Li: There you go sir. And madam? Chicken or beef?


Female 1 customer: Oooh, beef please.


Li: There you are.


Female customer: Thanks.


Li: (whispering) Hello and welcome to the programme… and to the flight. 大家好,我是杨莉。今天我在打零工,当空姐服务员,供餐的时间特忙,我得赶快回去 – lots of hungry customers.


Chicken or beef sir?


Familiar customer: (irritated) Actually, I have a beef with you.


Li: Beef? Ok, there you go.


Familiar customer: No, no – I don't want beef. I have a beef with you about this menu.


Li: You want some beef… with me? Sorry sir, I don't think we can provide that service.


Familiar customer: Listen. My beef is you don't have vegetarian 2 food.


Li: Er… I'm not quite sure I understand.


Familiar customer: (genuinely willing to help) Oh, I'm very sorry, do let me explain. In English, we can use the word 'beef' to mean 'complaint' or 'disagreement'.


Li: Oh I see – 原来牛肉这个词也可以表示一种抱怨或不同意见…


Familiar customer: Yes – we say 'I have a beef with someone or something over or about something' – a disagreement about something.


Li: A beef about something 就是对某事有意见…


Familiar customer: Let me see if the other passengers can help give us some examples. Would you mind, sir?


Male customer: Not at all. How about: I had a beef with my teacher about the amount of homework we were getting.


Familiar customer: Yes – if you felt you were getting too much homework you might say that! Thank you.


Male customer: Welcome.


Familiar customer: Anyone else?


Female customer: Oh, I can think of one: Mark had a beef with his wife.


Familiar customer: Very good. He had a disagreement with his wife. What was the reason? A full sentence please.


Female customer: Mark had a beef with his wife over… over… parking their car. He thought she always parked it very badly.


Familiar customer: Great. Well I hope she's better at parking now. Is that clear, Li?


Li: Yes, it is now thank you teacher, I mean sir… I mean… you look a bit familiar! A bit like our presenter 3 Finn.


Familiar customer: Shhhh… yes it is me. But I'm on holiday – not working, well only working a bit. After explaining this phrase I'm done!


Li: Well, have a nice holiday!


Familiar customer: Thanks. And I do still have a beef with this menu – why don't you have a vegetarian option?


Li: We do – but you need to reserve it online first, Finn, I mean sir. And while you're online, why not check out our website bbcukchina.com for more phrases like this one!


Familiar customer: Yes, it's a wonderful site. Back to holidays now. Bye.


Li: Bye.



1 female
adj.雌的,女(性)的;n.雌性的动物,女子
  • We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
  • The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。
2 vegetarian
n.素食者;adj.素食的
  • She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
  • I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
3 presenter
n.(电视、广播的)主持人,赠与者
  • Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。
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absolute index of refraction
acacanthrax
accst
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allomorphes
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amyss
aqueductus Sylvii
begat
beit din
bell test
biostereometric
black as a sloe
blossomest
brave oneself
Calices renales majores
cardiac-tamponade
cementing layer
chamfering tooth
chylopneumothorax
cirrhilabrus temminckii
clockwork radio
coccygeopubic diameter
coin sorting tester
computer science network
Corylus avellana grandis
course of production
Craw unit
crystalliferous
Cyprinol
de-louse
distincta
easter-magiant
emission spectrums
enterophrya elongata
entom-
Essex Tory
etch-a-sketch moment
eumeiosis
evolutional embryology
exxonmobil
ferrocement barge
ferrous metaphosphate
filmland
focal myelopathy
gaden
get hold of you
Gorron
governor deflection
happy-day
helicospore
hepatic artery
homogeneous terrain
interfacers
Jamu
keilar
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liquid sulfur dioxide extraction process
liris surusumi
Louis-Bar syndrome
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MDDBF
mean logarithmic energy loss
mergent
myaceaes
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nonexhaust
nutrias
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omnianas
on line inspection
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pennells
peroxide bond
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principle of effective demand
Pyrola incarnata
quasi-legal
rating data
replicative cycle
royal commission on labour
sag foot
sanctons
scavenges
semiconductor optical amplifier (soa) switch
shield from
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single electron tunneling
soft focus
spiral tube
star dynamics
stomach-ache
superheterodyne receivers
tavor
torus musculus levatoris
tridecatriene
understrengths
undissenting
vegetative state
whois
windfall tax