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
absorption degree
airproofs
all of a dither
aminopropane
annihilation process
anomalous Green function
approval certificate
As alto-stratus
butyl isocyanide
calculation of residues
car service
chasles
collateralise
connable
connivancy
countersink rivet
dactylioglyphy
dating nail
day month year
debt chain
deep tillage
Deutsche Reichs Patent
diagnosing
disimmunity
Distoma capenee
dry support
Dysoxylum
earthier
endopharyngeal insufflation
enrichment center of coal
explosive deafness
fastness to fulling
feldspathic porcelain
finessas
flame ignition
ganoderma boninense
gruff-voiced
gurdies
healthgrades
heterocentric
hidden-surface elimination
hungered
hydrogen gas buffer
I shudder to think
indisposed
infinitesimal relative displacements
interstation train operation telephone
ivermectins
japonicus Ker-Gawl. Ophipogon
keeks
kilo-steradian
laake
Lautzenhausen
leaky bucket algorithm
Lefkas
Lidoxide
Lyly
maturity structure of debt
mean low low water level
monel alloy
Morgagnian cyst
multifilters
nail sb down
nondesign
nuisance free
ocean sediment
ommatius medius
ophion bicarinatus
Pallas Green
palmitoylates
pitch time
plifier
pnagus tumoris
provisional measures
pseudochromid
ranunculus monophyllus ovcz
recray
rigid type vibratory pile hammer
rigidity of cervix
rose vitriol
sendable
severe plague
single-effect lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
smart cards
sodaholic
standard cubic feet(scf)
stellar aggregate
superinvolution of uterus
Tajimi
telecounter
telltaler
three-ounce
thumb positions
traffic analysis
triploids
unflamboyant
walaite (valaite)
weather yaw adjustment
well-applied
wickendens
yellow water flags
yfonded