时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning 1 English, I’m Neil.


Helen: 大家好,我是 Helen.


Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time, but you probably won’t find in your dictionary.


Helen: 希望您在今天的地道英语节目中能学到在词典里可能找不到的常用英语表达。Are you ok, Neil? You seem out of breath.


Neil: Oh, my train was cancelled, so I had to get a bus to work but it was packed with people and really slow because of the traffic.


Helen: Oh dear! 他的火车班次被取消了,结果他得坐公共汽车,在路上还堵了很久,所以上班迟到了。


Neil: What a nightmare 2!


Helen: A nightmare – 噩梦。


Neil: In English, a nightmare is a scary dream, but we can also use it to mean a bad experience or event.


Helen: A nightmare 是一个噩梦, 它也可以用来形容一段可怕的经历。


Example


A: Oh I’m glad that exam’s over. It was alright, wasn’t it?


B: Really? I thought it was a nightmare.


Neil: He thought the exam was a nightmare. It was too difficult for him and the experience was bad.


Helen: 对他来说,考试简直就是一场噩梦 a nightmare. 太难了,整个经历的感觉都不好。


Neil: Anyway Helen, how are you at the moment?


Helen: I’m alright, though I have got my in-laws staying at my house for six months.


Neil: Oh really, that sounds like an absolute 3 nightmare!


Helen: 我的公公婆婆搬到我家来住6个月,Neil 觉得听起来就是麻烦,特别可怕的噩梦,an absolute nightmare.


Neil: Well at least a bit of a nightmare…


Helen: 一点点可怕,a bit of a nightmare.


Neil: Bye!



1 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
2 nightmare
n.恶梦,可怕的事物,无法摆脱的恐惧
  • I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
  • I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦,失眠了。
3 absolute
adj.十足的;绝对的;不受任何限制的
  • The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
  • I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。
学英语单词
-peroxide
abnormal perception
acidifiant
airmobiles
airport radar service area (arsa)
aldimine
allowable wear
American Jurisprudence
art galss
balkin
Beaverbank
bit-slicing processing
can't hear yourself think
caprolin
case block
catarrhish
charvets
chromatogemous
circuiting
coinstantiate
contact scanning method
continuous layer
credit message
crookneck(pumpkin)
cubitieres
dating routine
deaf as a doornail
degaussing compensation
digital data converter-receiver
donnellan
elastic gore
emotional hyperhidrosis
expression syntax
family elaeagnaceaes
family expenditure survey
family plasmodiophoraceaes
FAT (Factory Acceptance Test)
fensterstock
fourths
give sth. a miss
go on with
heezing
hefas
hemo-opsonin
Hrach
indication of oil and gas
isotranslation regulation
Josephson effect
latest development
longitude by equal altitude
lymphonodi auriculares anteriores
merit factor
minimum stress limit
missafic
mmWave
Olympic Airlines
order apodess
partially consistent observation value
penitentiary
pentacenyl
phreodrilids
physical pseudomorph
Picard group
postexion
probe angle
public right of way
quantum field theories
ramjet sustainer
razor-back
real time expert system
scarlet clematiss
selection of athletes
semi-monolithic
semifusinoid group
Shablykino
simplified optical construction
single geared drive
soil water content
stepdowns
stratigraphic datum
subquality product
syllabic script
teaman
tediferous
thomson reuters
to decay
trachtman
transgressions
transposition changeover box
trowie
unborrowable
unsaid
up to the present
valiantness
ventriculofiberscope
Verkhniy Yashkul'
ville system
wave ripple bedding
whole day
wind timber
xenon build-up after shut-down
zampetti