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
's Hertogenbosch
acquisition of concessions
amino acid requirement(s)
annuity for life
aphylline
asynchronies
at-home party
attention reflex of pupil
backwash cascade
biometrist
black tais
browser engine
burgrave
bushbaby
cerebral abscess
chebec
cipherdom
co-nourish
cold sell
colon blow
Comastoma pulmonarium
compression work
Creolians
cross cr.
Csatalja
data track
degorge
disposal line
drum log
effect of smoothing
ego-development
eidolons
elaidic
electrically operated curtain drawing device
Elfving distribution
enclosed feeding
encoders
favazza
fibre tensile strength
file unsafe logic
fireband
fixed phase reference
fixed stop robot
Flathead County
fringe setae
fused-head-end technique
glycolylneuraminate
goes halves
grassi
guarded electrode
Gull's renal epistaxis
helicopter structure
hocls
Holdong
hydraulic efficiency machinery
isoxicam
kill antibody
life of the community
lithium methoxide
machinery-of-government
mannasi
mbekis
mcleary
mysteusporium adustum massee
neat revenue
one-third-octave band
ostinatos
put up productivity
pyramidal tracts
ramandan
rebber compound
regioisomeric
reorganize
respectably
rhina ancylostoma
rompin
Rosenheim's iodopotassium iodide solution
schiavone
screen adjustment
sea pincushion
sediment velocity
servitorships
shakedown limit
shared-no-update lock state
sherines
shipowner lien
spec builder
stagnant event
subdiploid
subsaturated
tatman
taxation approach benefit theory
tentaculiform
toy teaching
tragedy queen
tuck heigh
uncappable
Widmark's conjunctivitis
Wintelre
xanthein(e)
zapped
Zuberella