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
1-Methylmethylergonovine
active rudder motor
aircraft static pressure error corrector
alikhans
alkaline tide
amphichilus impressus
atrioseptoplasty
carbonatation
carinatum
caryogenesis
center of mass coordinate
Cevitamin
chatrian
Chimwala R.
chorographer
control premise
corrosion protecting lubricant
cyclic elastic strain
devilets
dowe
doxic
entocyanoses
ephemerides
equidensity
eucentric structural hybrid (darlington 1936)
fibrous stratum
final circuit
finite sequence
fo sheezie
formal administrative act
Frascineto
galays
gentrified
guerrilla-styles
Gymnopetalum integrifolium
hetero epitaxial optical waveguide
hole coupling
IMLT
iodacyl halide
isoreineckiagenin
kirkintilloches
korundophilite (corundophyllite)
L.T.A.
land of deflation
light source
Litt.D.
loanable fund theory of interest
maculine
Maesawa
marginal sea basin magmatic association
mikes
misconnects
molemen
monophagize
Mutbīn
My Trinh
mylius
nanosandwiches
nbi
nem. con.
net obligation
nonsupersymmetric
NSPCA
outgoing trunk (ogt)
paleodistribution
potassium-argon method
PR-225
primitive alveoli
process innovation
prodelisions
pudding-pipe tree
reaction coil
Recoules-Prévinquières
regardless of feature size (rfs)
retortment
return banquet
Saussurea arenaria
sawing strips
Schistomatium
sciaenid
separation system
short hold
slender rush
slenderness coefficient
solid construction
speds
spindle horn
Spokane County
sputtering rate
statistic relative frequency
Styrax supaii
take one's way to
telar
tethydans
tetrabutylammonium chloride
the avant-garde
to pull out all the stops
tri-n-propyl-n-butyltin
trochee
wool grade
Wren-Thrush
zinc magnesium galvanizing alloy