时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:纯正地道美语


英语课

  A:What are you doing?

B:What am I doing?  What am I doing?  Don’t you know what day it is?

A:Ummm. no.

B:It’s only the day when the world’s biggest sporting event is kicking off.

A:What?

B:The World Cup! The first match is today! It’s Mexico vs. South Africa! It’s going to be a really good match!  Both teams have a very strong offense 1 and have skilled 2 players. I think that South Africa will probably dominate 3 the first half since they are the host country, and all.

A: I have no idea what you’re talking about. The only sporting event we watch at home is the Super Bowl.

B: This is bigger than the Super Bowl, man! Teams from 32 countries compete against each other every four years and fight to win that trophy 4.  They first start in a group stage with bigger groups, each group having 4 teams. The top 2 teams pass on to an elimination 5 stage before going on to the quarter final sand semifinals.

A:Sounds interesting, but soccer doesn’t really appeal to me.

B:Are you kidding? Over seven hundred million people watched the final match of the World Cup! It’s a very exciting and nerve 6 wracking sport!  Each nation is cheering on their team, hoping they will become the next champion. So far Brazil is the team with the most titles under their belt; they’re really good!

A:All I know about soccer is that you can’t use your hands and that players are always falling down, trying to get a free kick or penalty 7 kick. It seems like a sissy sport to me!

B:Whatever dude, I’m going to go watch the opening match.


  to kick off 正式开始

match n.比赛

host a.主场的

stage n.阶段

sissy a.适合女子的

 


  A:你在干什么?

B: 我在做什么?我在做什么?你不知道今天是什么日子吗?

A:不知道。

B:今天世界上最大的体育赛事开始了。

A:什么?

B: 世界杯。第一场比赛就在今天。墨西哥队对阵南非对。那将会是场非常棒的比赛。两只球队都有很强的进攻能力,都有球技很高超的队员。我想南非对会在上半场比赛中占据优势,因为他们是主场球队。

A:我不知道你在说什么。我们在家看的唯一体育比赛就是“超级杯赛”。

B:世界杯的规模要比“超级杯赛”大得多,来自32个国家的球队每隔4年都要角逐一次,通过比赛来获得奖项。先要进行小组赛,每组有4支球队。前2名将会进入淘汰赛,最后进入四分之一决赛和半决赛。

A:听起来很有趣,但足球并不吸引我。

B:你在开玩笑嘛?7亿多人都要看世界杯的决赛。那非常令人激动,是令人精神紧绷的比赛。每隔国家都为自己的球队欢呼,希望他们能成为下一任世界冠军。目前为止,巴西队获得的头衔最多,他们真的很棒。

A:对于足球,我只知道你不能用手,而且球员在踢任意球或是点球时总会跌倒。在我看起足球更适合女子。

B:无论咋样,我都要看开场赛。

 


 



1 offense
n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
2 skilled
adj.(in)熟练的,有技能的;需要技能的
  • Unskilled workers usually earn less money than skilled workers.无技能的工人通常比有技能的工人挣钱少。
  • She was skilled enough in French to translate a novel.她法语娴熟,足以翻译小说。
3 dominate
v.支配,统治,高出,俯视,在...中占首地位
  • They had the ambition to dominate this small country.他们有控制这个小国的野心。
  • The strong usually dominate over the weak.强者常常支配弱者。
4 trophy
n.优胜旗,奖品,奖杯,战胜品,纪念品
  • The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.那只奖杯是该公司很珍惜的奖品。
  • He hung the lion's head as a trophy.他把那狮子头挂起来作为狩猎纪念品。
5 elimination
n.排除,消除,消灭
  • Their elimination from the competition was a great surprise.他们在比赛中遭到淘汰是个很大的意外。
  • I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals.我在400米半决赛中被淘汰。
6 nerve
n.神经;勇气,胆量,沉着,果断
  • Did he have the nerve to say that?他竟有脸说这话吗?
  • He never got up enough nerve to meet me.他从没有足够的胆量来见我。
7 penalty
n.处罚,刑罚,罚款
  • If you knock the ball with your hand in football,you will suffer a penalty.如果在踢足球时你用手碰到球,你将受到处罚。
  • One of those arrested could face the death penalty.被捕的那些人中有一人可能被判死刑。
学英语单词
Ackland
Aix-Marseille
alludes to
Aureolaria pedicularia
beshrouding
Bessarion
breast-height diameter
brigadiers general
capacity constraint function
chris-craft
clearing and controlling center
cobalt(ii) linoleate
combination turret and copying lathe
coome
correct an error
counting statistics
CPFA
cpvc
Cribb
crown-work
cursor selection field
Dariveren
de power
defensive lock-out
delay retention effect
Didymocarpus adenocalyx
dishd
distressrocket
dumpled
excitonutrient
fash one's thumb about
financial net present value
force magnifier
forest resource
foundation seed nursery
foyer de danse
full-width kier boiling
go into committee
grade of steel
habropoda tainanicola tainanicola
hammer-forging
high concept
high-grade carbon steel
hoffmann-la-roche
Hop o' My Thumb
i-fel
intrinsic strength of liquids
JDMJ
Kallavesi
Lasette
Leroux's method
local hormone
low melting point metal
low-lifers
Lynn Grove
Mobius syndrome
Moroccan crises
music school
myasthenias
negative ion generator
nine-to-fiver
non-insulated container
not a laughing matter s
Osterzhausen
overseas call
packing fraction loss
parosmia
peracchi
phosglycin
plastic resist
pomophobia
protoanthropic
QAP
rated contact current
Rauvolfia yunnanensis
Santa Elena, C.
scheduled frequency
second-stare treatment
shade curtain
short-selling
SL-type cable (separate lead type cable)
solid acid catalyst
St-Priest-de-Champs
St. Simon
stripper shovel
sulton
swelling value
Swiss file
temporary runway
test trunk
tetrasodium pyrophosphates
thermodegradation
thioindoxylic acid
tidal compensation
titanium(ii) sulfide
to let bygones be bygones
tout for votes
vapor pressure chart
vicar general
Walysshe
washingtonias
Wilson's theorem