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。
学英语单词
- fuge
abelmoschus fibre
Acer prolificum
administrative system
angarkha
apc connector
attractive quality
autochthonous blastoma
aylesham cloth
body of vertebra (or centrum)
brown spot of pea
cell-type enclosure
circuit, integration
classeme
coating glasses
come back again like a shilling
complete revolution
condition statement
Copake Falls
copper carbide chloride
cough-remedies
d'orsay
damn Yankee
decibels above one kilowatt
depaola
deviatoric strain
diphezyl
DS1C
Edermünde
edificative
eliptical blade
elocute
ergodynamometer
executive search
filament pyrometer
fixed mass system
flauntiness
flax wax
forward and backward deduction
genus stictomyss
get a start in
gopher protected calbe
gradin
granulomatous
gravel pavement
heat pickup
Heritiera angustata
high-incidence
hitchcox
horsehair worms
hypocitremia
I-beam cursor
IHPC
interest rate contract
it was noised abroad that...
ITT (Incident Investigation Team)
klugman
Laurie I.
leather tape condeser
linear regression method
lucky draw
Mavrommati
McCarthyistic
membrane Debove's
metrazol shock therapy
millful
misparlance
negative chemotaxes
negligible function
neuromarketing
Ningguoan Stage
overexpressing
Palo Pinto Res.
partial radial distribution function
Premonstratensian
pull velocity
pumping grinding mill
resuspension
revenue service
scratch wig
semi-markovian decision process
serozymogenic cells
Siebenlehn
slap chips
slide block radial drilling machine
Snoek effect
stabistor
stanford
tactual motor test
tibial nerve
transempirical
ultimate fact
unanalyzed
unfilling
unsymmetrical leaf spring
uteroplasty
utiles
vent hood
versacut
vertical water tube boiler
viscidnesses
zeta function of algebra