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。
学英语单词
a-tingle
abdominal splint rib (or abdominal rib)
acetylcholinesterases
air flow rate
alternating-current commutator motor
anghui
antismuggling patrol boat
archbishop's/archiepiscopal cross
audio compression
balanced quicksort
Balzheim
bardlet
batch feeding
battle damage assessment
BELART
beta-carotenes
body of pubis
bronaugh
budget warning system
carcinoma of Cowper's glands
carousals
charges against revenue
close sizing
committeemen
conciliation officer
cone fisher
conversion diagram
crandons
data index
eosentomon iban
equatorial sediment bulge
Favositidae
fcas
fixed-term contract
Friedmann universe
furnishingss
Gbarnga
gnasp
gravid proglottid
gypsy head
hit ... for six
hollow-brick
hydraulictransformer
Impatiens chishuiensis
izenours
jasperoid
kalash
Kanevskaya
kennedy interrnationals
Khenchela, Wilaya d'
koolan
lilly
look-ahead field
low-severity
make someone
maxconcurrentusers
mesas
mirror matrix target
molecular diameter
muscular abductor superfic
Mönchhof
natural solid bitumen
nibble mode dram
osseointegration
peltoperlids
plate element
plethora apocoptica
Pockels effect light valve
postles
purely noncausal filter
pyriforme
quartararo
regnart
Riedehausen
Ruhea
safe harbor principles
safeguards for nuclear reactors
segmentative
self-loading device
separating needle
share limit
sheelde
silver palmitate
sippets
spin counter
standard transposition system
steam-flow closure
stink of something
stock tank
stuffin'
tenbrook
thermoelectric call relay
throstling
tiesha
time base
titubated
track impact fatigue testing machine
tri truck
tropeolin D
vena rectaliss
weight beam