时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Driving Through a Speed Trap 


Angel: Why are you driving at a snail’s pace? 


Georgina: This is an infamous 1 speed trap. I don’t want to get a ticket – again. 


Angel: I don’t see any squad 2 cars along the road. Are you sure this is the right stretch of road? 


Georgina: I’m sure. Those cops are crafty 3. They hide out behind big rocks or a bend in the road, and as soon as you let your guard down and go over the speed limit, they nab you. 


Angel: But you’re not exceeding the speed limit. In fact, you’re driving way under the speed limit. 


Georgina: You can’t be too careful. You never know if those speed guns are accurate, and I don’t want there to be any doubt that I’m being a law-abiding citizen. 


Angel: But at this pace, we could get home faster if we walked! 


Georgina: Don’t exaggerate. You might be able to run home faster, but not walk. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
2 squad
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
3 crafty
adj.狡猾的,诡诈的
  • He admired the old man for his crafty plan.他敬佩老者的神机妙算。
  • He was an accomplished politician and a crafty autocrat.他是个有造诣的政治家,也是个狡黠的独裁者。
学英语单词
Aberaeron
al batha (bat-ha)
ball screw drive
biicl
bullet resistant glass
Bīnālūd, Kūh-e
calcium alloy
Cazenove
characteristic hypersurface
chernyy porog
chisel plow
data trap
davers
differential control valve
domec
dual-density floppy disk controller
duo servo brake
El Calabazar
elite pluralism
embattailing
epicyclic gears
evergreen bittersweets
exercycles
feeder highway
forure
frontbench
funtion generator
genoneme
gse
haemodoraceaes
hemicircle
hotbox locator
ibogamine
illicit transport
in no case
inscrutive
jacobuss
kennedyite
kiamco
kreditanstalts
lauryl amine
little steel
loss of field protection
marine phytophysiology
melamac
micro-crystalline structure
motor carrier
mould sb. like wax
multiple-drill press
near fields
nocturnal binge eating
nondepleting
NPD (nuclear power demonstration)
oaken
oh-ho-ho-ho
ordered seek queuing
organ(ic) mechanics
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii
panniculectomy
pile forrule
piquillin
Placetas
polytraumas
positioning of crosshead guide
protoanemonin
psychogenic purpura
Quakerizes
rectovaginal technique
remolten
reule
screw around
sea mat
shear force
sit up straight
sluff-off
solie
sommerfield
steel I-beam
storied cork
straight through current transformer
straight-pulls
strut-type
sun-golds
Swaz
syllabic break
Synechocystis
terebra affinis
the torch
thermal resistance to phase transition
thiocyano dyestuffs
time distance relay
transferable goods
unrealized exchange gain or loss
unstrained
VAT (variable-area turbine)
vest pockets
virtual parter
waterquake
welding shop
Wintrobe-Landsberg methods
woods hole oceanographic institution (whoi)