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。
学英语单词
adjustable eyepiece
aeroporotomy
alaniz
allimentary toxemia
anai mudi pk.
angular distribution of photoelectron
aposcopolamine
Asperugo
AT-rich
Atebubu
back part of stage
balewski
ballaragging
blister printing
boiler short-water
capacity of decomposition
cargo tank ventilating system
conking
Conscientiously strengthen the operation and
cyst worm
dastardliness
digotin
disconcerteth
discrete measles
disodium hexafluorosilicate
double insurance policy
draw-bar pocket
Dwight chart
ethylene-acrylate copolymer
excess burden
false middlings
fertilization substance
forty hours week
fucosterols
great north mt.
green peafowls
Gzhelian Age
halogenated hydrocarbons
hawatmeh
holothuria arenicola
Homalorhagae
homing adapter
humble-hearted
hypothetical operating system
informational advantage
ingli
initial rudder adjustment
isolated reef
kemmo silk
Kibiti
kill the plant in the seedling stage
koch
layuot
macroeconomics of city
magnetogranulation
mammuthus columbis
Markarfljót
medicalizable
metallized polypropylene capacitor
milking pipeline machine
minor produces
molar depression constant
most
multiwindow menu
natirvik
Navigation Regime of Exclusive Economic Zone
negative reading
nitrile ylide
off-times
optical beams
pan-ice
periodical
press roll weight
pure rice flour
raine-sacking
safeguards inspector
separate oil supply
ship chandlery firm
short-breaks
sistership exclusion
snow survey
soldier's pay
solid three-phase short-circuit
solvents tanker
spuing
squamous epithelioma(epidermoid carcinoma)
strategic importance
stratigraphic lexicon
suborder lipotyphlas
sunnyside
take sb up sharp
targu-mures (tirgu mures)
thirtyfour
thorle
throw sth overboard
time-varying capacitance
transitional process
unseparated subprogram definitions
vertical disk dryer
water infilitration and redistribution
well-fitting
wheel-chair