时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2015年NPR美国国家公共电台1月


英语课

突破口语之独白(15):A disgruntled traveler一位不满的旅客


“Traveling involves so much stress! Preparation is especially hard - trying to arrange the transportation, accommodation, and time off from work.  Packing isn't easy. How can you possibly know everything you may or may not need in a place that's largely unknown to you? Assuming you ever reach your destination, you have to communicate with people who often don't speak your language and you have to navigate 1 your way around an area you have no idea about. How are you supposed to relax under such conditions? And all that money you're spending! For what? I don't get it at all.” 
--George Threadborne, disgruntled traveler


旅行的压力太大了。准备工作尤其艰难,要安排交通、食宿,还要告假。行李收拾也不容易。在一个你一无所知的地方,你怎么可能预料什么对你有用什么又对你没用?假设你到达你的目的地,你必须和那些通常不和你讲同一国语言的人交流。还要在一个你毫不熟悉的地方探路。在这样的情况下你怎么可能放松?还有,想想旅行要花的钱!这到底是为了什么?我可不知道。
                                                                                                                                                                         --不满的旅客          乔治•斯瑞得


注解 :
1) preparation    n. 准备, 预备
2) transportation   n. 运输工具;交通车辆
3) accommodation    n. 住处, 膳宿
4) destination    n. 目的地



1 navigate
v.航行,飞行;导航,领航
  • He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
  • Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。
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airdrome field
airflow pattern
anticollectivism
b-dnas
balance cock rest
Beard,Mary Ritter
benzoylisolineolone
bilboes
blown you away
body combination switch
careers adviser
channel (in communication theory)
coking phenol
Dalton le Dale
degree of intensive farming
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desktop-computer
dibrachial acephalus
dichomyces inaequalis
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distributed control executive
dogvanes
draw a line
echinocereuss
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Expodental
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hollowwort
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implicit identification
intergranular precipitation
just-perceptible difference
karyolemma
lapses into
lauterbach
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lilangeni
lwd
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mini plant
monegasques
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neutronic feedback
new wine in old bottle s
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nocturnalists
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orthotrian
outer franc area
overpermissive
Peek's formula
perilymphatic fistula
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positron-electron
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printer character drum
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pulse code demodulator
quercus ilexes
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right of way signal
ruddy shelduck
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trivial subspace
truncata
umbrella shed
vaginal fluid
vertebrate bioenergetics
warow
wear my heart on my sleeve