时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:创新国际英语教程 学生用书 2


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[00:00.00]6 Shopping

[00:06.19]2 While you read

[00:11.05]I'm a car-boot sale addict 1 and proud of it!

[00:16.40]Let's face it.it's not much fun shopping in most shops anymore.is it?

[00:24.14]The thing is,cities all over the world are starting to look more and more similar.

[00:31.19]In almost every one,you find branches of the same global 2 chains of shops and fast food restaurants-

[00:39.97]Gap,Niketown,Benetton.McDonald's,the Body Shop and Starbucks.

[00:48.80]As the chains corner the market,lots of little shops go out of business,

[00:55.93]and with evey one that goes bankrupt 3,

[01:00.66]the world becomes a little bit duller and more predictable,

[01:06.22]Chains will never surprise you in any way.

[01:11.08]You know exactly what you'll get before you even walk through their doors.

[01:17.92]It's getting harder and harder to find unusual,

[01:23.57]interesting,or even just different things out there...

[01:29.94]and that's really why I'm a car-boot sale addict.

[01:36.10]Every weekend,in fields,car parks and school yards all over Britain,

[01:43.97]thousands of people unload 4 the contents of their car boots onto little tables

[01:51.23]and sell off all the old junk 5 they've been meaning to get rid of for ages.

[01:57.50]The prices are usually made up on the spot,

[02:02.46]and haggling 6 over them is part of the fun.

[02:07.01]If you get there early enough,you can pick up some amazing bargains -old records.

[02:15.76]out of print books,vintage clothes.incredibly cheap antiques 7.

[02:23.80]On top of all that,there's lots of other strange bits and pieces to make you think:

[02:31.46]old photograph albums,collections of old love letters,second-hand glass eyes.

[02:40.24]You can find anything and everything at these places.

[02:45.59]So next time you get fed up with being ripped 8 off by a big chain

[02:52.36]which thinks three pounds is a fair price for a cup of coffee,

[02:58.23]say goodbye to big business and hello to the world of car boot sales!



v.使沉溺;使上瘾;n.沉溺于不良嗜好的人
  • He became gambling addict,and lost all his possessions.他习染上了赌博,最终输掉了全部家产。
  • He assisted a drug addict to escape from drug but failed firstly.一开始他帮助一个吸毒者戒毒但失败了。
adj.全球的;球形的;世界的
  • A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一个全球环境会议将在这里举行。
  • The report takes a global view of the company's problems.这份报告对公司的问题作了综合性的论述。
n.破产者;adj.破产的;vt.使...破产
  • That factory has gone bankrupt.那家工厂倒了。
  • The enemy's scheme went bankrupt.敌人的计谋破产了。
vt.卸下,卸货,摆脱...之负担,(大量)倾销;vi.卸下货物,摆脱负担,退出(弹药,胶片等)
  • They want to unload the stocks on the market.他们想把股票在市场上抛售掉。
  • She began to unload her troubles on her mother.她开始把她的烦恼告诉母亲。
n.废弃的旧物;破烂物
  • I bought this old table in a junk shop.我在旧货店里买了这张旧桌子。
  • They cleared out the junk room to make a tiny beds.他们将废品间清理用作小卧室。
v.讨价还价( haggle的现在分词 )
  • I left him in the market haggling over the price of a shirt. 我扔下他自己在市场上就一件衬衫讨价还价。
  • Some were haggling loudly with traders as they hawked their wares. 有些人正在大声同兜售货物的商贩讲价钱。 来自辞典例句
n.古玩,古董,古物( antique的名词复数 )
  • The room was furnished with antiques. 房间里摆放了古董。
  • a priceless collection of antiques 价值连城的古文物收藏
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aboundable
acieracious
adversary politics
alveolar-efficiency
antileprosy
arkansite
atmospheric radiation budget
bis (cyclopentadienyl) vanadium
butt breaths
Callotasis
casting-pit crane
chaulmoogroyl
chilomastosis
closed caption
coaxial streams injector
collyriums
copy fitting
couves
cyclopedic
decacyclene
detonator-safety fuze
dihydrotestosterone (dht)
direction drilling
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dragging on
Dressler, Marie
elevating grader
enfleurages
externally heated oven
fan-shaped anticline
float-valve tray
flow-limiting venturi
formula apportionment
gorenberg
Grenzers
hard-to
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high energy rate forging
hyper-peristalsis
hyponasal
indophenol
instrumental case
integrating sphere photometer
internalisation
iterative bidding game
laygear
liken someone to
lucks out
luhmer
make a survey of
management of working groups
marine celestial navigation
material feeder
more for less
ocean delta
oil treater
optical waveguide fibre
orthotropia
Oscillariaceae
panime
Patani
peck and booze
petrochemical
phanerocrystalline texture
Phanom Sarakham
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preservative Fluid
program supplies
proof-stress
pump governor
quadratic polynomial in one variable
rangen
reflection zero
rejoy
riverboats
Salinian formation
Salvada, Sa.
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self-incriminatory
sheer legs
shit-list
slash knot
sloganless
spinning channel
sporas
stop indication
subarcmin
subventral ridge
take ... out on
taoiseach
tetherballs
thannadars
to trash
transfer ability of data base
tubifera dimorphotheca
ventilated container
vestibulotomy
video amplifier channel
wenchless
wettable sulfur
wiretron
zero error