时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.64]The Coffee Cup
[00:23.30]神秘的咖啡杯
[00:32.03]Everyday, a half-empty cup of coffee was on that table
[00:36.68]when I opened and the chair was pulled back.
[00:40.60]I knew the restaurant manager inspected the dining room
[00:44.24]before locking up at night,
[00:46.76]so I believed the dinner crew when they denied leaving it.
[00:51.94]The only employee on duty at night
[00:54.83]was one of two graveyard 1 shift desk clerks,
[00:59.42]yet they both denied doing it
[01:02.43]and it really made no sense for them
[01:04.86]to leave the front desk unattended
[01:07.84]and risk being fired just to go through the hassle
[01:11.45]of unlocking 2 the dining room to sit in there
[01:14.37]and drink coffee at a back table
[01:17.06]when there was coffee and a television at the front desk.
[01:22.07]The hotel had no security guard,
[01:24.81]so that was not an available explanation either.
[01:28.64]Around the end of August,
[01:31.03]I again got to the dining room
[01:33.26]after the kitchen crew had turned on the kitchen lights.
[01:37.51]As I entered the dining room,
[01:39.54]I again saw the silhouette 3 of someone sitting at that table.
[01:44.74]I was not going to let the person escape again
[01:47.74]before finding out who it was,
[01:51.21]so without turning away to turn on the lights,
[01:55.10]I walked straight across the dining room
[01:57.84]toward where this person was seated.
[02:13.34]讲解
[03:40.33]Everyday, a half-empty cup of coffee was on that table
[03:44.88]when I opened and the chair was pulled back.
[03:57.15]I knew the restaurant manager inspected the dining room
[04:00.43]before locking up at night,
[04:03.10]so I believed the dinner crew when they denied leaving it.
[04:18.13]The only employee on duty at night
[04:21.03]was one of two graveyard shift desk clerks,
[04:30.43]yet they both denied doing it
[04:33.39]and it really made no sense for them
[04:35.76]to leave the front desk unattended
[04:38.72]and risk being fired just to go through the hassle
[04:42.45]of unlocking the dining room to sit in there
[04:45.45]and drink coffee at a back table
[04:48.12]when there was coffee and a television at the front desk.
[05:12.93]The hotel had no security guard,
[05:15.63]so that was not an available explanation either.
[05:24.76]Around the end of August,
[05:26.67]I again got to the dining room
[05:29.05]after the kitchen crew had turned on the kitchen lights.
[05:39.77]As I entered the dining room,
[05:41.51]I again saw the silhouette of someone sitting at that table.
[05:52.33]I was not going to let the person escape again
[05:55.26]before finding out who it was,
[06:03.43]so without turning away to turn on the lights,
[06:07.11]I walked straight across the dining room
[06:09.60]toward where this person was seated.
[06:34.98]语言点
[06:36.64]inspect  仔细检查
[06:42.72]look over carefully
[06:45.79]It was strange that nobody inspected my ticket
[06:49.22]before I got on the train.
[06:57.05]lock up  上锁
[07:00.98]It's not my job to lock up.
[07:06.46]lock  锁门
[07:10.90]Don't forget to lock the door.
[07:15.57]employee  雇员
[07:20.91]雇主  employer
[07:23.64]雇用  employ
[07:29.06]on duty  值班,当班
[07:33.23]off duty
[07:36.87]graveyard shift
[07:40.71]graveyard  坟地
[07:43.97]graveyard shift
[07:45.97]night shift
[07:50.07]desk clerk
[07:54.03]hotel receptionist
[07:58.06]make no sense
[08:15.25]This makes sense.
[08:18.85]This doesn't make any sense.
[08:22.25]risk being fired
[08:26.72]risk doing something
[08:29.85]go through the hassle to do something
[08:35.43]hassle  麻烦
[08:39.67]trouble
[08:41.77]security guard  保安
[08:45.44]escape  逃跑
[08:51.63]A lion has escaped from its cage.
[08:58.65]walk straight across
[09:02.74]be seated
[09:10.44]Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.
[09:23.00]谢谢收听

1 graveyard
n.坟场
  • All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
  • Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
2 unlocking
n.接通,开放,解锁v.开锁( unlock的现在分词 );开启;揭开;开着,解开
  • Unlocking DaVinci's Code separates the facts from the fiction. 《解开达西密码》将事实与小说区隔开来。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号
  • All of these questions will be answered on Unlocking DaVinci's Code. 这些问题将于《解开达文西密码》中一一解答。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号
3 silhouette
n.黑色半身侧面影,影子,轮廓;v.描绘成侧面影,照出影子来,仅仅显出轮廓
  • I could see its black silhouette against the evening sky.我能看到夜幕下它黑色的轮廓。
  • I could see the silhouette of the woman in the pickup.我可以见到小卡车的女人黑色半身侧面影。
学英语单词
Abkhazia
all-purpose meter
american hellebores
anerethisia
APRAC
argyr.odite
attemperly
bicycle test
black knot of plum
black mallees
bloostein
bustiest
buy for the account
bye-pass
central minute counter hand
chuck wrench
Cock's peculiar tumor
common grade
complement inhibition test
constant rate frequency changer
cornerlights
cross-tree
cutting depth
decommunized
depth-interviewing
desertive
despisingly
Deutschlandlied
di-(4-phenyl isocyanate) methane
direct-operated relief valve
drye
electron-bombarded amorphous silicon
emergency braking control relay
energy terminal
exchange rate margin
formeagre
genus Acanthoscelides
grading of occupations
h-x
havocs
horzontal measure
industrial graphic display system
innum
internal screw finish
Iwate-san
Joy doubled-ended miner
Juris affectus in executione consistit.
lattice vacant site
leading buoy
linsey-woolsey
logical access path
Lower Silurian Series
lower-yield
m-xxl
map interlinking
Marat, Jean Paul
maternal uncles
mill scale
minimisings
mission-planning
mobileTV
moisture adhesive moisture
natronamblygonite (natramblygonite)
nigiri
opus signinum
outwrestling
Parcillin
pencil of curves of the second order
perispicular spongin
plan monitoring
playing lighthouse
POLCON
prefrontal lobes
procto-elytropiasty
r.a.a.f.
radiation emissivity
rhachi-
rightmost terminal set
rii
rinji
Saratoga spittlebug
sericulturists
shoot a glance at sb
simple coppice system
spread spectrum multiple access
spur-winged plovers
stampt
stravens
styli-
syllabography
thermoelectrical colorimeter
time interleaving
time study people
triadelphous stamens
trisannulation
urethral prolapse
venatory
Wife Swap
wool grease pitch
Yagishiri-tō
Yazdan
young bird