时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:14.15]Roofer
[00:19.31]房顶工人
[00:31.61]I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building
[00:35.17]that had been periodically haunted
[00:37.88]by the specter of the upper half of a roofer
[00:41.07]who had fallen from the six story roof
[00:43.87]twenty years earlier.
[00:46.69]On the day of the 6.0 Whittier earthquakes of 1987
[00:52.41]I arrived at the building an hour earlier than usual
[00:56.17]and took the elevator to the top floor
[00:59.39]where the snack bar was located.
[01:03.04]After buying a cup of coffee from the dispenser
[01:06.24]I strolled out of the snack room
[01:08.43]onto the penthouse balcony
[01:10.26]to gaze over the lovely campus.
[01:13.78]Just as I was about to take a sip 1 of coffee
[01:16.87]the whole building jolted 2 upwards
[01:19.88]and nearly knocked me off balance.
[01:23.97]Thinking the short earthquake
[01:26.05]could be a precursor 3 to an even bigger earthquake,
[01:30.02]I turned to find my way to the stairwell.
[01:33.24]However, as I turned
[01:35.25]I was slammed to the tarmac so violently
[01:38.83]and swiftly that I had no time
[01:41.16]to break my fall with my hands.
[01:44.67]As I struggled to crawl towards the stairwell
[01:47.96]I felt a sharp jabbing pain of my left ankle.
[01:52.62]I descended 4 the stairs to the lobby
[01:55.07]and observed huge cracks in the corners
[01:58.18]and stumbled over chucks of plaster
[02:00.33]that had fallen onto the stairs.
[02:03.80]As I stumbled and limped through the lobby
[02:06.70]I encountered marble wall panels
[02:09.25]that had fallen and broken.
[02:19.57]讲解
[03:53.06]语言点
[03:56.06]periodically  周期性地,定期地
[04:00.34]periodical
[04:04.00]haunt  神鬼出没,闹鬼
[04:09.95]the upper half
[04:13.00]upper  上面的
[04:17.22]lower
[04:19.52]the upper class  上层社会
[04:22.46]the lower class  下层社会
[04:26.32]story  楼层
[04:29.56]故事,小说
[04:32.69]on the day of….
[04:38.34]on
[04:40.06]on September. 9th
[04:44.65]on the day I came to Beijing
[04:50.27]arrive at  到达
[04:54.52]get to / reach
[04:57.68]I arrived at/got to/reached New York last month.
[05:06.09]an hour earlier than usual
[05:10.77]than usual  比平时
[05:13.33]ten minutes later than usual
[05:18.51]take the elevator  乘电梯。电梯
[05:23.04]elevator
[05:25.30]lift
[05:27.59]snack bar  小吃店,快餐柜
[05:31.17]snack  小吃,快餐
[05:35.30]locate  位于,坐落于
[05:42.56]Our campus is located in the northwest of the city of Beijing.
[05:51.55]dispenser  自动售货机
[05:58.65]药剂师,配药员
[06:03.07]stroll  漫步、闲逛
[06:12.12]I met an old classmate when I was strolling along the street.
[06:21.23]gaze  凝视,盯
[06:25.86]gaze at somebody
[06:29.08]He likes to gaze at those pretty girls.
[06:35.00]be about to do something  即将做某事
[06:39.02]I was about to watch TV when the doorbell rang.
[06:47.41]a sip of  一小口
[06:50.56]knock somebody off balance
[06:56.07]off balance  失去平衡
[06:58.90]on balance  保持平衡
[07:02.19]a precursor to  …的先兆
[07:06.00]Lightning and thundering are usually precursors 5 to rainfalls.
[07:15.41]so…that…  太…以至于…
[07:19.68]It's so hot that all the people just want to stay at home.
[07:28.43]a sharp jabbing pain
[07:32.76]sharp  剧烈的、强烈的
[07:37.82]descend  下降
[07:42.74]ascend  上升
[07:47.53]broken
[07:48.70]break
[08:09.28]I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building
[08:13.14]that had been periodically haunted
[08:15.51]by the specter of the upper half of a roofer
[08:18.64]who had fallen from the six story roof
[08:21.49]twenty years earlier.
[08:24.29]On the day of the 6.0 Whittier earthquakes of 1987
[08:30.14]I arrived at the building an hour earlier than usual
[08:34.38]and took the elevator to the top floor
[08:37.11]where the snack bar was located.
[08:40.70]After buying a cup of coffee from the dispenser
[08:43.88]I strolled out of the snack room
[08:46.04]onto the penthouse balcony
[08:47.90]to gaze over the lovely campus.
[08:51.45]Just as I was about to take a sip of coffee
[08:54.65]the whole building jolted upwards
[08:57.44]and nearly knocked me off balance.
[09:01.65]Thinking the short earthquake
[09:03.74]could be a precursor to an even bigger earthquake,
[09:07.65]I turned to find my way to the stairwell.
[09:10.90]However, as I turned
[09:12.94]I was slammed to the tarmac so violently
[09:16.52]and swiftly that I had no time
[09:18.82]to break my fall with my hands.
[09:22.56]As I struggled to crawl towards the stairwell
[09:25.65]I felt a sharp jabbing pain of my left ankle.
[09:29.87]I descended the stairs to the lobby
[09:32.68]and observed huge cracks in the corners
[09:35.79]and stumbled over chucks of plaster
[09:38.01]that had fallen onto the stairs.
[09:41.46]As I stumbled and limped through the lobby
[09:44.38]I encountered marble wall panels
[09:46.86]that had fallen and broken.
[09:58.51]谢谢收听

1 sip
v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量
  • She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
  • Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。
2 jolted
(使)摇动, (使)震惊( jolt的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
  • She was jolted out of her reverie as the door opened. 门一开就把她从幻想中惊醒。
3 precursor
n.先驱者;前辈;前任;预兆;先兆
  • Error is often the precursor of what is correct.错误常常是正确的先导。
  • He said that the deal should not be seen as a precursor to a merger.他说该笔交易不应该被看作是合并的前兆。
4 descended
a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
  • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
  • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
5 precursors
n.先驱( precursor的名词复数 );先行者;先兆;初期形式
  • Phenyl (or polyphenyl) substituted epoxides serve as excellent precursors to phenyl (or diphenyl) carbenes. 某些苯代(或多苯)环氧乙烷是制取带苯环(或二苯)碳烯的极好原料。 来自辞典例句
  • Note the presence of megakaryocytes, erythroid islands, and granulocytic precursors. 可见巨核细胞,红细胞岛和粒细胞前体细胞。 来自互联网
学英语单词
abyssal injection
acquired cutis laxa
Actinidia henryi
alfalfa weevils
azalias
bandleaders
barwin
Bayou d'Arbonne Lake
beam-tree
begawan
Benazir
Bjφrkedal
blocking courses
bread bin
Carex jiaodongensis
cfr
chondrohypoplasia
combination with
concert pitches
concrete mobility
confocal laser
costal chondrotomy
cylinder sizing machine
dodecaphonist
double acting spring butt
Drimys
end of tape identification
exacter
extent of examination
fire resistance
fluorotrichloroiodate
flush surface gage
fresh water draft
gentle wind
glucuronoxylomannan
go hungry
grain fan
hair-pyrite
halakoth
hardwood
intermediate (storage) tank
issued capital
language intuition
lengthwiser
li kou
lime rock tower
lunar radar
main reflector
maintenance data system
Makoro
meliola sakawensis
microfleece
mole drainage
Monosigeae
nonautoreactive
octadecenyl aldehyde
oozes
Orangeism
outcurved
peroxidate
perusers
pj's
plant numerical taxonomy
plural vote
porchlike
Portland beds
printer pool
prothyrum
regio endolymphatica
root canal overfilling
Sakao
Salmon Bank
scattered mixed forest
semordnilap
separation negatives
sequence of operators
sequence-controlled sootblower system
shadow zone
shot break
simple partnership
spatulate finger
sphexish
stale green
steam pollution
submerged valley
surplus power
teaching profession
thin film optical coating
toilet powder
torque breakdown test
transfer of staff
tressa
tsengs
two-input switch
unfilmed
unvadable
ups-a-daisy
vanadium oxydifluoride
waiting-time distribution
warewashers
Western Kordofan State
wrapped round