时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:18.57]Mr Joe
[00:22.43]乔先生
[00:35.03]He told me that plants are just like us humans,
[00:39.02]in that, when they are visiting with friends
[00:41.97]they are up awake and ready to pass a good time
[00:45.83]but when everyone leaves it is time to rest.
[00:49.92]I almost choked 1 on the water I was drinking
[00:52.91]when it all came together in my mind,
[00:56.08]he really was talking to his plants,
[00:58.58]they really do understand each other,
[01:01.48]I thought. I excused myself and then ran home
[01:05.35]as fast as I could to tell my mother of what I had seen.
[01:10.03]I rushed through the door screaming 2 for her to come down
[01:13.00]so that I could tell her what happened.
[01:16.11]When she did come I told her the story
[01:18.88]and she told me that I must be crazy
[01:22.06]for that could never happen
[01:23.63]and that I had gotten too much sun
[01:26.10]from fishing that afternoon.
[01:28.84]Well, I didn't believe her
[01:31.14]but I swore 3 never to go back to Mr. Joe's house again.
[01:35.83]Years went by with everyday 4 I passed
[01:38.07]in front of that old house
[01:40.12]and I could hear that old man talking away to his plants
[01:44.16]and growing the finest fruits and vegetables
[01:46.97]ever to be served on a supper table
[01:49.46]until one day Mr. Joe had a heart attack 5 and died.
[01:55.51]The whole town went to his funeral
[01:57.84]and we all said our goodbyes
[02:00.09]but the main topic of conversation was his garden
[02:04.70]and how pitiful it was that it would all die.
[02:09.62]Little did they know the truth?
[02:12.23]You see it is believed
[02:13.54]that Mr. Joe made a pact 6 with his plants that even
[02:17.40]when he passed on the plants
[02:19.58]would continue to thrive 7 in his name.
[02:22.93]The fact is, 20 years later,
[02:25.70]I still live in the same town
[02:27.66]and still pass by old Mr. Joe's house,
[02:31.23]and his plants are still there
[02:33.66]with no one taking care of them.
[02:36.50]They say that if you listen hard enough
[02:39.41]you can still hear him talking to his plants,
[02:42.56]telling them that he will always be there
[02:45.40]to take care of them.
[02:54.22]讲解
[05:06.26]He told me that plants are just like us humans,
[05:13.28]in that, when they are visiting with friends
[05:16.15]they are up awake and ready to pass a good time
[05:26.07]but when everyone leaves it is time to rest.
[05:34.42]I almost choked on the water I was drinking
[05:37.47]when it all came together in my mind,
[05:44.44]he really was talking to his plants,
[05:47.09]they really do understand each other,
[05:50.28]I thought. I excused myself and then ran home
[05:53.61]as fast as I could to tell my mother of what I had seen.
[06:12.10]I rushed through the door screaming for her to come down
[06:15.09]so that I could tell her what happened.
[06:18.25]When she did come I told her the story
[06:21.33]and she told me that I must be crazy
[06:24.15]for that could never happen
[06:26.17]and that I had gotten too much sun
[06:28.23]from fishing that afternoon.
[06:47.30]Well, I didn't believe her
[06:50.19]but I swore never to go back to Mr. Joe's house again.
[06:59.91]Years went by with everyday I passed
[07:02.22]in front of that old house
[07:04.05]and I could hear that old man talking away to his plants
[07:07.75]and growing the finest fruits and vegetables
[07:10.98]ever to be served on a supper table
[07:13.43]until one day Mr. Joe had a heart attack and died.
[07:34.85]The whole town went to his funeral
[07:37.16]and we all said our goodbyes
[07:39.69]but the main topic of conversation was his garden
[07:44.03]and how pitiful it was that it would all die.
[08:01.56]Little did they know the truth?
[08:06.09]You see it is believed
[08:07.26]that Mr. Joe made a pact with his plants that even
[08:11.02]when he passed on the plants
[08:13.05]would continue to thrive in his name.
[08:25.59]The fact is, 20 years later,
[08:28.93]I still live in the same town
[08:30.96]and still pass by old Mr. Joe's house,
[08:42.90]and his plants are still there
[08:45.10]with no one taking care of them.
[08:52.53]They say that if you listen hard enough
[08:55.36]you can still hear him talking to his plants,
[08:58.58]telling them that he will always be there
[09:01.63]to take care of them.
[09:24.45]语言点
[09:27.39]come together  集合
[09:31.50]do+动词原形
[09:39.31]when she did come
[09:43.53]excuse oneself
[09:48.52]swear  发誓
[09:51.25]swear (not) to do sth. / swear+从句
[09:58.75]serve  端饭、上菜
[10:03.37]have a heart attack  心脏病发作
[10:09.53]little
[10:12.92]few
[10:15.42]pass on  去世 / 传递
[10:23.43]in one's name  在某人的名义下
[10:36.60]谢谢收听

1 Choked
v.填塞( choke的过去式和过去分词 );(使)窒息;(尤指感情激动)而哽咽;因紧张而失灵
  • They'd ruthlessly choked off all opposition to their plans. 他们无情地把反对他们的方案都压制下去了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was a thankless job, so we choked him off before long. 那是一件吃力不讨好的事情,所以我们很快就不让他做了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 screaming
adj.尖叫的,令人惊愕的,引人捧腹大笑的v.(因伤痛、害怕、激动等)尖叫 ~发出尖叫声( scream的现在分词 );(向某人或为某事)高声喊;发出大而尖的声音;呼啸而过
  • He covered her mouth to stop her from screaming. 他捂上她的嘴,不让她叫出声来。
  • People were floundering about in the water, shouting and screaming. 人们呼喊尖叫着在水里挣扎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 swore
v.诅咒,咒骂( swear的过去式 );(使某人)就…宣誓;郑重承诺;发誓要
  • They swore their loyalty to the king. 他们宣誓效忠国王。
  • She fell over and swore loudly. 她摔倒了,大骂了一声。
4 everyday
adj.每天的,日常的,平常的
  • Sweeping the floor is his everyday work.扫地是他的日常工作。
  • He practices speaking English everyday.他每天练习说英语。
5 attack
n./v.攻击,袭击,进攻,抨击
  • We must keep the enemy's attack off until dark.天黑前我们应当顶住敌人的进攻。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
6 pact
n.合同,条约,公约,协定
  • The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
  • The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
7 thrive
v.兴旺,繁荣,茁壮成长
  • These animals thrive on the leaves of certain trees.这些动物靠吃某些树的叶子长壮。
  • This flowering plant will thrive and bloom wherever you plant it.这种花随便你种在哪儿都能活。
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Adinandra bockiana
adirondackers
aeroplane carrier
affluxion
agroforestries
anesthesia of buccal nerve
asturica augusta
Bakker-Nun camera
bamboo sheathing
Barany test
biker gang
biological station
biretz
boesches
brachyphalangia
bryostatins
bust size
carnosine
CMRO
colorpoints
Convention on the Valuation of Goods for Customs Purposes
coxcombic
cupric electrolysis
customer classification
customizer
cylinder unit
Darband
deep rhetoric
deliver newspapers
dextrotropic
disci nervi optici
disseminator role
Dracocephalum velutinum
dry ore
electronic tuning indicator
extension visa
filled bun
galactoblast
hackbutter
hrdlicka
indicator fan
individual credit
inherent bursts
invest with
Irish Rose
irruptives
Irwinning
jack's
krayushkins
land marks
large capacity aircraft
layout chart
light coherence
load force
lustings
Mocorito
multiscious
naturally occurring isotope
Nidelv
noise in coal mine
normal dispersion
Oextropropoxyphene
oiaf
opposed compressor
overboard
pettiphers
phyllosan
pink-collars
Planetary albedo
plebeious
pond for fry
portfolio movement
private company share
probe into the mysteries of
process of manufacture
protoepiphyte
pseudolinguistics
purified gas
put a pinch of salt on a bird's tail
receving tank
reciprocating plate and worm type distributor
reobtain
reverse adapter
roof-racks
rule-based reasoning
Samia cynthia
scraffling
second intermediate rolls
self-baking electrode
self-discharging barge
short run marginal cost
source of heat release
Swiss Formula
syncuma
Taxus cuspidata
tilt lock valve
vanity site
wind set-up
work avalanche
yew family