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
Achorion lebertii
alkaline reserve
allosyndisis
already-listed
angle of shear resistance
antenna inaequalis
Arbatax
atomic physicss
bar cutting machine
be one for the books
Bellegem
Bhagwan
biis
bilateral bearing
black mould of rice
Blyth Ra.
Bykovka
can feeder
chequer-work
clicketting
compound dl
configuration insteraction
consumer action group
COP (coefficient of performance)
crest-fall
Cross-measurement
cucumbertrees
cufflinks
dado capping
deaf-points
deferred check point restart
deglucohellebrin
dimanches
efficiency rotation
engarrisons
environmental cracking
exempt employee
froken
gas gauging
general once-over tillage
get away speed
get mine
guaranteed efficiency
guyette
ibm tivoli storage resource manager agent
iron stone
Kaura
krypton-85 source
large scale air separation plant
lead autunite
lexicalises
liquid bath furnace
lucernas
luteal regression stage
marginal net revenue curve
melasyenogabbro
mesnyi
mixus
Murzūq
musculus arrector ventr.
newly-appointeds
nonzero algebra
normalism
normative reference group
oil gage
oriental medicine
paint the town red
paraolfactory
parting shears
phosphoranyls
playgirl
plectranthias yamakawai
preheating evaporator
procedure execution stack
processor consistency model
professional workstation
prohibitory injunction
pseudocysticercosis
ran ragged
see something of the world
seepage deformation
separated-gang cultivator
settlement slope
sight deposit
silky pig iron
skreak
small-plate
Sooretama
soyt
standard preparation hours
stone net
tazmania
The ass waggeth his ears
tourist board
truxillic acid
unacknowledged connectionless-mode transmission
Vacutainer
ventricular escape
voluntary contribution
water extract
welding blower
woodsia alpina gray