时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:16.35]HICKAM AFB - House On Apollo Avenue
[00:25.81]海卡姆空军基地--阿波罗大道上的房子
[00:40.03]My mother, sister, and I
[00:42.21]have always been sensitive 1 to things not of this world,
[00:46.02]intuition, that sort of thing.
[00:49.40]Yet, nothing would have prepared me
[00:51.49]for what was in store for us next.
[00:54.46]My father was stationed at Hickam AFB in 1989.
[00:59.78]We took the house out on Apollo Avenue
[01:02.44]because it had air conditioning.
[01:05.10]Not long after living there, things began to happen.
[01:09.11]The front bedroom (at the end of the short hallway)
[01:12.92]was impossible to sleep in.
[01:15.58]It was my 8-month-old son's room,
[01:18.31]but he never slept in it.
[01:20.40]One night, my sister wanted to sleep in the room
[01:23.77]to see why he woke up screaming every time
[01:26.35]we put him in his crib fast asleep.
[01:29.82]That night, her blankets were pulled off
[01:32.44]and the room was extremely 2 cold.
[01:35.44]She pulled them up, and they were pulled off again.
[01:38.72]That happened once more
[01:40.32]before she said she couldn't take it anymore
[01:43.00]and came back to the bedroom we shared (all three of us).
[01:47.22]We always heard our names
[01:49.34]being called like someone was whispering 3 in our ears.
[01:53.11]Mostly this happened
[01:54.76]as we were walking up and down the stairs.
[01:57.86]We saw a few ghosts during our stay there.
[02:01.22]I saw a woman in a black dress
[02:03.38]sitting in the upstairs bathroom at the end of the long hall.
[02:07.08]She looked sad and made eye contact with me
[02:10.43]as I reached the top of the stairs.
[02:12.70]My bedroom was right next to the bathroom;
[02:16.20]and not only did I have her staring at me,
[02:19.93]I had that uncomfortable feeling pouring out
[02:23.36]from the front bedroom. YIKES!
[02:36.96]讲解
[04:24.84]语言点
[04:27.05]this world  此生、今世
[04:31.43]He is not long for this world.
[04:36.92]things not of this world
[04:41.57]intuition  直觉
[04:48.43]this/that sort of thing
[04:53.28]these sort of things / things of this sort
[04:59.06]Nothing would have prepared me
[05:00.66]for what was in store for us next.
[05:04.99]would
[05:16.56]That would have been rather difficult.
[05:22.02]prepare somebody for something
[05:30.43]We need to prepare her for the news.
[05:36.75]in store  必将发生、就要来到
[05:41.71]There's trouble in store for her.
[05:47.11]station  驻扎、安置、配置
[05:55.61]The police were stationed outside the hall.
[06:01.37]Hickam AFB
[06:06.96]AFB = Air Force Base
[06:11.14]take  买下、租下
[06:19.10]He took the house for a year.
[06:24.59]air conditioning  空调系统
[06:28.40]crib  有围栏的婴儿床
[06:33.52]fast asleep  处于熟睡状态的
[06:38.25]mostly  多半、通常
[06:42.62]have somebody/something doing something
[06:49.98]She'll have you doing all the housework
[06:52.40]if you're not careful.
[07:09.73]I woke up in the night
[07:11.19]and found we had water dripping 4 through the ceiling 5.
[07:18.39]yikes
[07:32.72]My mother, sister, and I
[07:34.86]have always been sensitive to things not of this world,
[07:38.81]intuition, that sort of thing.
[07:42.08]Yet, nothing would have prepared me
[07:44.23]for what was in store for us next.
[07:46.78]My father was stationed at Hickam AFB in 1989.
[07:52.22]We took the house out on Apollo Avenue
[07:55.12]because it had air conditioning.
[07:57.66]Not long after living there, things began to happen.
[08:01.79]The front bedroom (at the end of the short hallway)
[08:05.46]was impossible to sleep in.
[08:08.16]It was my 8-month-old son's room,
[08:10.87]but he never slept in it.
[08:13.11]One night, my sister wanted to sleep in the room
[08:16.10]to see why he woke up screaming every time
[08:19.06]we put him in his crib fast asleep.
[08:22.22]That night, her blankets were pulled off
[08:24.88]and the room was extremely cold.
[08:27.78]She pulled them up, and they were pulled off again.
[08:31.11]That happened once more
[08:32.79]before she said she couldn't take it anymore
[08:35.45]and came back to the bedroom we shared (all three of us).
[08:39.99]We always heard our names
[08:41.82]being called like someone was whispering in our ears.
[08:45.55]Mostly this happened
[08:47.18]as we were walking up and down the stairs.
[08:50.41]We saw a few ghosts during our stay there.
[08:53.60]I saw a woman in a black dress
[08:55.68]sitting in the upstairs bathroom at the end of the long hall.
[08:59.56]She looked sad and made eye contact with me
[09:02.76]as I reached the top of the stairs.
[09:05.40]My bedroom was right next to the bathroom;
[09:08.67]and not only did I have her staring at me,
[09:12.28]I had that uncomfortable feeling pouring out
[09:15.46]from the front bedroom. YIKES!
[09:27.61]谢谢收听

1 sensitive
adj.敏感的,灵敏的,过敏的,感光的
  • He's very sensitive about his ugly appearance.他对自己丑陋的外貌很敏感。
  • It's difficult to avoid stepping on her sensitive feelings.很难不伤害她脆弱的情感。
2 extremely
adv.极其,非常,极度
  • The film is extremely good,I just cannot miss it.这部电影太精彩了,我非看不可。
  • The old man was extremely difficult to get along with.这个老人极难相与。
3 whispering
adj.耳语的,爱拨弄是非的v.低声说( whisper的现在分词 );私语;小声说;私下说
  • They were whispering endearments to each other. 他们彼此低声倾吐着爱慕之情。
  • He could hear whispering and scuffling on the other side of the door. 他能听见门那边的低语声和窸窸窣窣的走动声。
4 dripping
n.滴;滴下;滴下物;油滴v.(使)滴下( drip的现在分词 );滴出;含有;充满
  • Her face was dripping with sweat. 她脸上汗水淋淋。
  • His hand was dripping blood. 他的手在滴血。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 ceiling
n.天花板;(规定价格、工资等的)最高限额
  • It took more or less a whole day to paint the ceiling.粉刷天花板用了将近一整天的时间。
  • A fly is on the ceiling.一只苍蝇在天花板上。
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absolute variability
accountant and secretary
active prominence region
acute retroauricular lymphadenitis
adjusting apparatus
Akadomari
alternating axes (of symmetry)
arrogance, arrogancy
aseogonium
assembler grammar
back acknowledge
break-even model
caytons
cellulose turpentine oil
cheloniidaes
Cherdakly
choice-based sampling
circolo
Competa
connect box
consolation match
corruptingly
delaminated
dense crowd
destalinizing
diatonic seventh
digital courage
DL-pyroglutamic acid
dome theory
echo repeater
Electric Gradient
Enewetak
Ethyloestrend
fibreglass roving
forefooting
Getulina
Gynura aurantiaca
halftrack tractor
high performance data compression
hob milling cutter
hypophysectomy
impossibilists
improvements on leased
itbe
ladieswear
lingual cyst
Macho, Pta.
maneuverable-ball re-entry vehicle
monochrome rendition
mother-bombs
multitheist
music dictation
needle-in-tube pen
normal course
northern casque-headed frogs
ohly
ophidiidaes
oversalty
oversophisticate
panus faucium
parking lot,parking area
patant
permittivity measurement
phasing switch
points and crossing
polydactyluss
populus canescenss
present goods
pseudocythere caudata
radio-range transmitter
redioimmunoelectrophoresis
residual fulx density
Robledo de Chavela
saggings
SBO (storage bus out)
scomberomorus sinensis
screen name
shish-kebab structure
Solvan Stage
standard atmospheric state
statement of annual account
static loop
stigmatically
stratum cutaneum
stroboscopic analysis
Sulcus corporis callosi
svf
tenuifolia
tetrachloride extinguisher
tihuanaco
tree shears
Treungen
trichopus
trothplight
tuberiferum
two-spectra binary
unilateral repudiation of a debt
unpaired neutron
vacuolus vitellioae
vibrating reed viscometer
Wahyudi
zirconium dioxide refractory