时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语听和读


英语课

 Amber 1: Hello, I'm Amber, and you’re listening to bbclearningenglish.com.


In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with the Hollywood actress,
Drew Barrymore. She talks about her troubled times growing up after she
played Gertie (at the age of 7!) in the huge hit movie, ET, and how she copes
with fame, now she is a grown-up, successful actress and producer.
In her new film, ‘Music and Lyrics’, she plays opposite the English star Hugh
Grant. So what was that like?!
Drew says that there was a ‘weird 2’ (that means strange) feeling about them as a
couple. She says they made an ‘odd couple’ (an unusual couple), and that there
was an ‘odd couple’ sort of ‘vibe’, or feeling, about them …
As you listen to her description, try to catch the Chinese expression she uses
about herself and Hugh Grant – it means opposites!
Drew Barrymore
‘There really was this weird, odd couple sort of vibe about us. I mean, Hugh and I in real life
are completely different – we’re total yin and yang. I’m absolutely optimist 3 and sun-shiny and
Hugh is absolutely very tense and intense!’
Amber: So Drew Barrymore says that she and Hugh Grant are very different kinds of
people – she says they’re ‘total’ (that’s American for ‘very’) ‘yin and yang’.
Yin means darkness and negativity, and yang means light and motivation.
She says she is an optimist and that she’s a ‘sun-shiny’, or happy, person. She
says Hugh seems to her to be ‘tense and intense’ – worried and serious. 
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Next, Drew Barrymore talks about her troubled times growing up. She not only
had to deal with the anti-climax that followed fame as a child star in ET, as a
teenager, she struggled to overcome her addiction 4 to drugs and alcohol. So
when she looks back at her life now, does it seem like a different person? As
you listen, try to catch the image she uses at the end to describe experiencing
failure and working through it.
Drew Barrymore
‘No, I think it was just like every young person has to figure out who they are. I was a bit
younger because I had to grow up so fast because of my job, and it was obviously more public
than some people have experienced it, but it’s just the same emotion that everybody goes
through – which is, you know, growing pains, and falling on your face and picking yourself
back up again.’
Amber: So Drew Barrymore says she was like any young person trying to ‘figure out’,
or decide, who she was. She says her ‘growing pains’ – her feelings as she
grew up – were normal.
Finally, she talks about being like a garden! It’s a nice image for thinking
about the need to look after herself! As you listen, try to catch one of the three
verbs she uses to describe looking after the garden!
Drew Barrymore
‘You know, sometimes you have to take a time out from people in life. You know, but I don’t
think you should beat yourself up too much for that. Sometimes some maturing and watering
and nurturing 5 of the garden is sort of important to make it regrow when you’ve burnt it
down.’
Amber: So Drew Barrymore believes sometimes we have to spend time apart from
other people – we need ‘time out’ from them. And that, like a garden, we need 
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to do some ‘maturing’, ‘watering and nurturing’ of ourselves – especially when
we’re tired, or ‘burnt’! Good advice!
Listen again.
Drew Barrymore
‘You know, sometimes you have to take a time out from people in life. You know, but I don’t
think you should beat yourself up too much for that. Sometimes some maturing and watering
and nurturing of the garden is sort of important to make it regrow when you’ve burnt it
down.’
Amber: Now here’s a list of the language we focussed on in the programme today.
weird
odd couple
vibe
yin and yang
sun-shiny
tense and intense
to figure something out
growing pains
to pick yourself up
time out 

1 amber
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
2 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
3 optimist
n.乐观的人,乐观主义者
  • We are optimist and realist.我们是乐观主义者,又是现实主义者。
  • Peter,ever the optimist,said things were bound to improve.一向乐观的皮特说,事情必定是会好转的。
4 addiction
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
5 nurturing
养育( nurture的现在分词 ); 培育; 滋长; 助长
  • These delicate plants need careful nurturing. 这些幼嫩的植物需要精心培育。
  • The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. 这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。
学英语单词
ablation shields
administrative-law judge
adult movies
aerobic composting
amanita virgineoides
and I don't know what else
angle bead
antifear
arse-crack
atinga (nigeria)
aznars
balsam
benzeneazo cresol
ceiling on wages
cellasin
center for shipping information and advisory services
centralized adaptive routing
completely self-protected distribution transformer
copygraph
critical limit
daylight lighting
diamond training
dichotomist
Didah
dioristical
DO delivery order
dog's-leather
economy system science
equal opportunity for all
error absolute
error rate damping
Exochognathus
external profile diameter
Faladoira, Sa.da
fermentation cylinder
fettling door
flatteners
formosina ochracea
free-format
function
gomels
good-government
ground-out
herring roe
high-power broadcasting
high-speed calculator
ICI182780
in want
interest per day
intraocular microforceps
language science
man-induced event
Mangoni
measurement data transmission
milesina miyabei
moar elveation of boiling point
multilevel flash memories
mythicisations
Māni, Wādī al
narrative address
neo-conceptual
neuro-psychologists
nocturnus
ota
panama zephyr
pars sternocostalis (pericardii)
pearlitic cementite
physics class
pilot plunger
potch
protect environment
Radonin
rib-ticklers
robot technology
rod milling
runkle
rustinesses
self-complacent
selfabandonment
sleeved roller traction chain
social intelligence
sprogged
stage-specific
starter terminal stud
straw mushroom
sun-day
taxi-dancers
tendino-
the devonian
three-forked jump
tiwari
trumpet moonflower
tudes
tunicae uveae
under the premise
underdetermine
ustilaginous
vestibulo-cochlear artery
vrsceralgia
walk over sb.
walking up
whistness