时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: This is Real English from BBC 1 Learning 2 English. I'm Neil.


Yang Li: 大家好,我是杨莉。


Neil: Today we're looking at English idioms.


Yang Li: 英语中有许多成语,特别精彩,值得专门记下来,今天我们学习那一个, Neil?


Neil: Todays idiom is – to kill two birds with one stone. To kill two birds with one stone.


Yang Li: Oh, 这个成语听起来很残忍!一个石头砸死两只鸟。


Neil: It does a bit. But it's a very useful idiom. It means 3 to do two things at the same time, when you might have done just one.


Yang Li: 那到是,听起来是一个非常有用的成语。当我们可以同时做两件事情而不是一件事,我们可以说 I killed two birds with one stone. 在汉语里我们就说一箭双雕。


Neil: So the Chinese is similar then? Here's an example of how to use it in English.


Examples


I went to Beijing on a business trip but a lot of my family live there too, so I killed two birds with one stone – I worked hard but saw my family as well.


I'm making a birthday cake for my sister tonight - but it's my flatmate's birthday on Tuesday so I think I'll add just a few extra ingredients 4 and make two cakes – kill two birds with one stone.


Yang Li: 上面对话说到这位女士去北京出差,因为自己的亲戚都在北京所以顺便就去探亲了。 She killed two birds with one stone. 不管怎样,我们得快点儿走了! Neil, do you want to go for a coffee?


Neil: Where are you going?


Yang Li: Just the coffee shop across the street.


Neil: Brilliant. I can go to the internet cafe next to the coffee shop and check my emails.


Yang Li: Ah, kill two birds with one stone?


Neil: Yes, I can kill two birds with one stone. Coffee and emails! Let's go.


Yang Li: 如果大家想学到更多的地道英语都可以登陆我们的网站 www.bbcchina.com.cn. Thanks for listening. 下次再会。


Neil: Bye.



1 BBC
abbr.(=British Broadcasting Corporation)英国广播公司
  • She works for the BBC.她为英国广播公司工作。
  • The BBC was founded in 1922.英国广播公司建于1922年。
2 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
3 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
4 ingredients
n.(混合物的)组成部分( ingredient的名词复数 );(烹调的)原料;(构成)要素;因素
  • All ingredients are readily available from your local store. 所有的原料都可以方便地从你当地的商店买到。
  • We never use second quality ingredients to build building. 我们决不使用次等材料用于建筑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
ABS resin (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene resin)
Adelaide River
aethlhydrocupreinum
Annes
at baier
BCMA
blew ass
braking capacity
bubbling carburetor
chart matching device
cheekcolor
cirrocumulus
cloud genus
cold endurance
collection of ship casualty statistics
come along with
comminuting
consumedly
degrouped
design limits
direct trunk
discharge electrode
discrete phase-locked loop
drum buoy
dust-ladden air
dynamicizer
EasyWrite
engine data logger
eurofed
European Defense Community
evaporator tube bank
F.710
farm finance
floating rule
Floating-point coprocessor
front drive axle clutch fork
gallate octyl ester
grading of rock mound
granulocyte transfusion reaction
hacking
halobenzenes
high pressure high temperature filter tester
histabutyzine
hygienics of children and adolescents
i-bounden
Ianson
immigration status
Junker's water dynamometer
kulturs
livvie
Lycopodium alopecuroides
manganese tool steel
mechanuss
med-school
minced meat omelet(te)
Minotaur
mixed population
mixed technology hybrids
mobile marketing
mycetophilids
NCMB
network graph theory
no collar worker
optimum scale
overall certral information problem
ozogamicin
pari-mutuels
pasigraphies
Plan-de-Cuques
POROLEPIDAE
power-off relay
probability element
reaction wheel control
reard
rhinophore
right arch
Roncador Bank
sartoris
second class passenger
seed zone
shereefs
small city
source signature record
spark blow-out coil
specialization and cooperation
stationary control
stroking the lower limbs
sugar loaf
taeniacanthids
texture
thermophysics
tie a bag on
tissue specific antigen
trophospongia
unpolishedness
unslacked
vinaigrette sauce
web feeding
Weilesheng
weld layer
well program
young dog