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
Alloa
anopheles (cellia) minimus
anti-nausea
bit robbing
browser tabs
Capsicum L.
Cauchy-Kovalevskaja theorem
censored sampling
child of forture
clear out bag and baggage
cold front thunderstorm
cometary astronomy
conductive plastics
conquistadorial
cortinellin
curbing inflation
debt-swapper
demisemiquaver
desk-size machine
diddley bow
direct-axis air-gap permeance
double conductor (twin conductor)
Draba L.
dreadless
dystrophia-dystocia syndrome
empties out
end heat loss
Euler integral of the second kind
Eurofranc
femtoliter
Filicene
first-lines
fixed-point motion
flotation machine
forward voltage
general-purpose diagnostic program
gentman
gericault
glue of tortoise plastron
grubbier
hand block sander
hegemonic masculinity
high pressure axial piston pump
hypochromic an(a)emia
imaginary circular point
interwine
izba
jack traverser
Kandava
KAT
knowhows
Lysinuria
majoritarianisms
man-sievert
Medodormin
Military Intelligence Section 6
myelencephalic relay
neuro-anatom
nonaggression
noncamping
normal owyheeite
Orpha
phototransducer
pionnote
police commissioner
pore pair
potassium monofluorophosphate
priscolin
process capability analysis
progagation delay
punctuated equilibrium theory
r-plane
radiation body
Ramus ovaricus
Read method of childbirth
revision level
river fog
roadsides
rubigen
ruminateth
settled material
shoobies
side gazes
sodium sulfite process
soloes
special operations combat control team
squooshily
stabulate
stokian wave
surface free energy
tank race
through out the night
tip lose
to chew the fat
to fall over board
tripharmacon
undiscloses
voltage vector-diagram
wiggle trace display
wind straighter
workboard
zip ties