英语听力精选进阶版 7030
时间：2019-02-23 作者：英语课 分类：英语播客-EnglishPod
(In the office, people are discussing where they should go for a meal)
A: OK, everyone it's 6 o'clock, I'm done. I think it's time we go for dinner!
B: I'm starving. Shall we go to Big Eaters? I love their salad - you can go bottomless.
C: I'm not a salad person. How about some fish and chips? Happy Fisher offers bottomless chips.
D: No, I suggest we go to Happy Chicken across the road. We can go bottomless with any soft drinks. I'm very thirsty.
A: Do we know anywhere that we can go bottomless on the main course?
D: Oh, that can only be your home!
Li: Oh my God! 怎么回事，要裸体去餐馆儿？Hey, Neil, what are you talking about? Are we really going 'bottomless' tonight? 实在抱歉，裸体就餐我实在为难啊。I'm afraid I can't go to the restaurant naked 1!
Neil: Oh Li. You have misunderstood the word 'bottomless'.
Li: Oh? What does it mean then?
Neil: Here it simply means 'unlimited 2' or 'boundless 3' - you can have as much food or drink as you like for the same price.
Li: Ah, 原来这个词的意思是不限量，多吃多给。It sounds like a buffet 4, doesn't it? You can eat as much as you like. So can I say 'I had a bottomless buffet'?
Neil: No, it's not a term people say or use, mostly you see it only on the menu in a restaurant.
Li: 我倒是见过 unlimited 表示不限量，这么说 'bottomless' 是同一个意思，只不过说法不同。
Neil: Yes. They mean the same thing. Nowadays a lot of restaurants do this to attract customers, but the 'bottomless' only applies to soft drinks. Do you know why?
Li: Because they are cheap! I guess no pubs 5 in the whole of England would offer a bottomless service!
Neil: Shame about that! However, there is another common expression you may come across: 'a bottomless pit 6'. Let's listen to some examples:
It's a poor country with a bottomless pit of debt.
Jack 7 will eat any food that's left over. His stomach is a bottomless pit!
Neil: This expression is used to describe someone or something that always needs or wants more of whatever they're given, especially money.
Li: 明白了。'A bottomless pit' 就是无底洞的意思。What a vivid expression!
Neil: Finally the word 'bottomless' does have another meaning - not wearing trousers.
Li: That's what I thought, going naked. Now that you have explained, I must not make the same mistake again! Thanks Neil.
Neil: Bye!
Li: Bye!
- To the east of our school,there's a naked hillside.我们学校东边有片光秃秃的山坡。
- The children stripped off their clothes and swam naked in the river.孩子们脱得光溜溜的在河里游泳。
- They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
- There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
- The boundless woods were sleeping in the deep repose of nature.无边无际的森林在大自然静寂的怀抱中酣睡着。
- His gratitude and devotion to the Party was boundless.他对党无限感激、无限忠诚。
- Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐？
- Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告诉我你们的自助餐有什么特色菜吗？
- I don't like pubs.They're noisy, smelly, and what's more, expensive. 我不喜欢酒吧。那里又吵，气味又难闻，更重要的是，花费太多。
- We did/went the rounds of all the pubs in town. 我们逐一光顾了城里所有的酒店。
- A sheep fell into a pit,and I helped it out.一只羊掉进坑里，我把它弄了出来。
- They dug a pit to bury the rubbish.他们挖了一个坑把垃圾埋掉。