时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Rory: So Abidemi, let's talk about abilities. Can you cook?
 
Abidemi: Yes, and no. I can cook a little bit, the basic stuff but I really like to eat but I don't experiment too much. So no, I'm not a great cook, but I can cook. I cook to survive. What about you, Rory? Can you cook?
 
Rory: Yeah, I can. I really like cooking. I love cooking Italian food. I also love baking. So I can bake cakes and cookies and bread, stuff like that.
 
Abidemi: Okay.
 
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Rory: How about singing? Can you sing?
 
Abidemi: I think I can sing. Yes, I enjoy singing. I love singing. I sing a lot in church, so I can sing. What about you? Can you sing?
 
Rory: I can't sing at all. Like even when I go to karaoke, I'm too embarrassed to pick up the microphone.
 
Abidemi: Oh, it's too bad. What about you, Rory, can you play – okay, can you play an instrument?
 
Rory: I can't. No. I'd love to be able to play an instrument but I can't play anything. How about you? Can you play an instrument?
 
Abidemi: No, I can't. I really wish that I had learned something when I was younger. But I say I can play my voice. Ha, ha.
 
Rory: That's nice.
 
Abidemi: What about juggling 1? Can you juggle 2, Rory?
 
Rory: Yeah, I can juggle. I can juggle with three balls and I can almost juggle with four.
 
Abidemi: Wow.
 
Rory: Like I can do it for about 10 seconds. Yeah.
 
Abidemi: I can't juggle at all. So please teach me. It's always something that I've always wanted – I wanted to learn.
 
Rory: Okay. Can you speak three languages?
 
Abidemi: Yes. I think I can speak three languages.
 
Rory: Which ones?
 
Abidemi: I think English is my best language but I also speak Yoruba, a Nigerian language, and I speak French as well. Yes.
 
And you?
 
Rory: Well, I can speak English and I can speak some Czech. I lived in the Czech Republic for six years.
 
Abidemi: Wow.
 
Rory: And I can also speak a little bit of French but it's very rusty 3.
 
Abidemi: Okay. Maybe next time we'll have this conversation in French then.
 
Rory: Okay.
 
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重点词汇:
 

Learn vocabulary from the lesson below.
 
experiment
 
I don't experiment too much.
 
When you experiment, you try new way of doing something. Notice the following:
 
He likes to experiment in the kitchen.
I usually wear the same clothes. I don't experiment much.
not --- at all
 
I can't sing at all.
 
We use "not at all" to show we have no ability at something. Notice the following:
 
I cannot cook at all.
My mom is good at dancing, but me? Not at all.
would love to be able to
 
I'd love to be able to play an instrument
 
When you would love to be able to do something, you wish you could do it. Notice the following:
 
I would love to be able to sing.
We would love to (be able to) go, but we can't.
as well
 
I speak French as well.
 
'As well' means the same as 'also' or 'too.' Notice the following:
 
I work and go to school as well.
He knows Bob, and he knows Mary as well.
some
 
I can speak some Czech.
 
Here, some means a litte bit, or not much. Notice the following:
 
I know some Mandarin 4, but not much.
I know some people here.
rusty
 
My French is very rusty.
 
When you are rusty at something, you need practice to regain 5 your skill. Notice the following:
 
My computers skills are rusty these days.
I speak Chinese but it is rusty.


1 juggling
v.变戏法,纂改,欺骗,同时做;n.玩杂耍,纂改,花招
  • If you juggle with your accounts,you'll get into trouble.你要是在帐目上做手脚,你可要遇到麻烦了。
  • She had to juggle her job and her children.她得同时兼顾工作和孩子。
2 rusty
adj.生锈的;锈色的;荒废了的
  • The lock on the door is rusty and won't open.门上的锁锈住了。
  • I haven't practiced my French for months and it's getting rusty.几个月不用,我的法语又荒疏了。
3 Mandarin
n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的
  • Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
  • Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
4 regain
vt.重新获得,收复,恢复
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
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anode scrap
anti-hemophilic globulin deficiency
aqua renaissance
arc suppression
arteria communicans
arterial bypass
as black as night
assualt area
baidai pills
Banindji
Berks
Beth-gilgal
big-businesses
black soil
Brossel-Bitter experiment
buckles down
caillou l.
carotid sulcus
cavepersons
census x-11 method
cigar smokers
cip-
closed injury
consumptive use
cover-drive
cyanise
Data Access Language
day-training centre
definite time protection
digital air data computer (dadc)
exhaust side trap
exomeninx
exteroreception
fatoumata
flockmasters
flying scaffold
gamomorphism
Gauss quadrature weights
gedges
gets through
grape sawfly
halicarnassuss
height of steam-water mixture
high resolution instrument
horse shoe type thrust bearing
hot metal bottle
injection block
Inter arma silent leges.
joguler
judgement in personal
lead-glazed
lit-tle
load on rear wheel
look sb up and down
madras gauze fabric
mesopristes argenteus
migration of metallic impurity
movable mask
multipoint-star configuration
non-hydrodynamic
not care a twopence
office of munitions control
pack carrier
pentacosane
pinnothere
pitayine
possy
postnasals
potassium titanate
practicality
principal angle of incidence
private office layout
proball
Provie
pulse-engendering powder
Quiroz, R.
Rasa Mēda
reversed electric field
right half back
roller-chain gate
root-canal ramification
rpci
rubidium peroxide
rupture of kidney
Searles L.
self-corrupted
semisyntheses
space symmetry
sulcus interven-tricularis posterior
Tascalapa
the queen of hearts
time-capsule
togcs
trailin'
transmission level measuring set
twi-mindedness
u-ni-ted
unappropriated goods
water caloric test
wiborgh phosphate
wifty-wafty
ymedeled