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。
学英语单词
ancyte
annuity purchased by the deceased
antipromiscuity
automatic check-off
axon(e)
baath
back tension bridle
Bloomfield,Leonard
Bol'shaya Sul'cha
bulblikest
byte-addressable computer
cast urea-formaldehyde plastics
cerebrasthenia
Cimicifuga dahurica Maxim.
cogwheels
congestion loss
constructive knowledge
consular attestation
coqui
crew chiefs
crotch fruit
crotch weld
cyclopiazonic acid
deutsche
dish developing
disk channel
docility
DOS (disk operating system)
e-mailer
ejection seat mechanism
electrorheological fluid
ellipochoanitic
escapement plate
eviota queenslandica
extrasaccular
femoro-alary organs
folding plates
friar's cloth
fumigation therapy of Chinese medicine
greater thans
green plot
ground water dynamics
gym machine
Hamgwannyǒng
Heave pawl!
high-altitude nuclear test
highway statistics
ice-bath
infectious erythema
Inflabilis
injury of great vessel of abdominal cavity
insular gyri
isodexyelephantopin
Japanese beetle feeding
knotless net
kvist
leave ... be
lie in grant
loss coefficient
m series
maximize value
mercantile establishments
national mythologies
non-absolute
noncentral
one foot standing with trunk full half forward
otus lettia
partial heat treatment
photo-point control
pirl
pointies
potching
predicate calculus language
r-color
reasonability
red iron-oxide
reference of reference
respiratory enzyme
rose oils
semidaily
sensitomete
Simmonds
Sinus venarum cavarum
SPC telex exchange
spectral actinometer
square washer with round hole
standard operative temperature
Stoyanovo
stroboscope polarimeter
subclass rosidaes
subpress die
teaching material
tight consistency
to-wawe
towing launch
trapp (trap)
trial by fire
user-level security
valve microphonic effect
Verlainesque
war-mongerings
Xiangsi Dao