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
academicizing
actual time of interception
aeronautical fixed radio service
auto-suspension
average height
brachium conjunctivum cerebelli
classical canonical form
come up to the standards
crimp connection
Curculigo orchioides
Dexambutol
direct to ground capacity
draza mihailovic
error sensing device
excess yield
exponential subroutine
facs
fibroma xanthoma
flow statement
fork fuel control mechanism
fourcade
FPNA
gantry type milling machine
genus Podiceps
gerontogeic
go for broke
gonane
government telegrams
helipilots
herpesviral disease of coho salmon
heterograph ink
hexadecimal digit
Holbæk Fd.
Hyangsan-gun
hysterical vomiting
institutionals
integrated count
internal degree of freedom
isotope isomer
job processing monitor termination
keratodermia
key entry state
klammath weed
littarge
long time no see
loose clutch
magnetically quiet
mildly
molman
momentary pressure variation ratio
motorfan
national wealth account
nickel iron battery (Edison battery)
noise-gated AGC
non rotational imaging
nuthacks
overall balance statistics of national economics
oxhide
percutaneous nephrostomy
phuoc
point slope method
pollution studies
population total
post-nationalists
propos
prosisse
Protohyeniaceae
put off some the mask
pysanka
random work
red green blue
reduced-fat
rheotaxial growth
riebeckite-micro-granite
ruled off
sabb
saidar
Saints Peter and Paul
scubaing
semiboneless
shoeth
single-pole single-throw switch
snoozin'
socco
spectral series
spiral-curved tooth
springless
stated value no par stock
Stelangium
streptomycin-dependent strain
Swiss-cheese endometrium
technology trade license
the awkward age
tributary office
turanias
Uhuru Torch
uniformness
unstowed
Viburnum melanocarpum
war-leader
withdrawal right
year-round education