时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个


英语课

Todd: So Mark, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

Mark: I'm 31.


Todd: 31. OK, and so you probably don't remember but like... I'm 37 and I remember watching television with no remote control. Like just the big square box you have to go up and turn.


Mark: Yeah, I remember that.


Todd: Was it the same when you were a kid?


Mark: That's right. I think I actually had a TV like that up until about ten years ago when I was at a university student.


Todd: Really.


Mark: Yeah, you just pressed on the button.


Todd: You know actually, the remote control is so much more convenient 1 but I actually miss having to turn the knob 2 because you don't have so many choices. You know. Like, you pick a channel and you stick with it and then you watch it, but with the remote control you just want to flick 3, flick, flick.




Mark: Yeah, I call it flick-a-vision. Yeah. I quite like flick-a-vision.


Todd: So what's flick-a-vision?


Mark: Well, just when you watch each channel for maybe a minute or two and then change, change, change, change. Yeah, I often do that. Like you say you don't focus 4 on the whole program.


Todd: Right. And it's terrible when you're sitting with somebody else and they have the remote control and they keep flicking 5 away.


Mark: Right, that causes a lot of family fights in my house. Yeah.


Todd: Well, actually, you are a newly 6 married man, so do you have any remote control wars with your wife?


Mark: Recently no. Not at the moment because I am living in a very small house with a small room. It's quite easy to get up and turn over the TV without using the remote. But we're not fighting at the moment but I can see in the future we will be so the key there is probably to have two rooms with two TVs.


 



adj.便利的,方便的
  • I have to find a convenient location for the shelves.我得找一合适的地方放这些书架。
  • Come at any time that is convenient to you.你哪会儿方便就哪会儿来吧。
n.球形把手,球形柄,旋钮,小块
  • There is a knob of butter on the table.桌子上有一小块黄油。
  • This knob is only held on by sellotape.这个旋钮只是用透明胶带固定住的。
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
n.焦点,焦距;vi.聚焦,注视;vt.使聚焦,调焦,集中
  • She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
  • The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。
(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的现在分词 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等)
  • He helped her up before flicking the reins. 他帮她上马,之后挥动了缰绳。
  • There's something flicking around my toes. 有什么东西老在叮我的脚指头。
adv.新近,最近;重新,再度;以新的方式
  • Have you reviewed for this newly published novel?你给这本新出版的小说写书评了吗?
  • It is a newly planted tree and it has not established yet.这是一颗新栽的树,还没有扎下根来。