时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:跟着英剧练发音


英语课

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E: What is it, dear?


D: Sulphur! Can't you smell it? Brimstone. I smelled him out the minute he came in.


E: Who, dear?


D: Beelzebub! He thought I was taken in.


E: You remember Miss Wannop?


D: He takes a pleasing shape.


E: I have just been telling Miss Wannop about Mr Macmaster's circle of beautiful intellects, all devoted 1 to the higher things...


D: But I was ready for him!


E: Beauty, truth, the shepherd's pipe, the gem-like flame, the wine-dark sea...


D: Lord, your servant slept when your handmaiden was taken into bondage 2 with a corset, but he wakes now!


E: The beautiful soul, souls, in harmony with our little gathering 3 of the finer minds, quite the finest really, the very best young writers, artists...


D: And cast out the Devil's new contraption, the brassiere! And all the swaddling and strapping 4 that constricts 5 the freely-flowing and God-glorifying bounty 6 of belly 7 and breast! Of airy buttock...


V: Why, Mr Duchemin, you are one of us! All we new women are united against the corset, it is the very devil! You must write an article for our paper. How splendid.



1 devoted
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
2 bondage
n.奴役,束缚
  • Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
  • They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。
3 gathering
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
4 strapping
压缩,压紧,使收缩( constrict的名词复数 )
  • The tumour constricts the nerves. 肿瘤压迫神经。
  • Fat constricts the blood vessels, making your circulation bad. 脂肪压缩血管,造成你的血液循环不畅。
5 bounty
n.慷慨的赠予物,奖金;慷慨,大方;施与
  • He is famous for his bounty to the poor.他因对穷人慷慨相助而出名。
  • We received a bounty from the government.我们收到政府给予的一笔补助金。
6 belly
n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛
  • The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
学英语单词
act of public enemy
air conditioned coach
allant-,allanto-
alternative model
am open to question
Anacyclus pyrethrum DC
arithmetic error code
Atlantic polar front
babysats
behoovest
biology of hystricomorph rodents
Boot.ini
Capela das Laranjeiras
carpet bomb
cat plant
cavum oris proprium
cervical artery
chip away
coexistents
conjugate polymar
control characters
controlled bevel
cubage units
curtailed binomial sampiing
cut-off computer
decentralized production control
destructive overspeed failure
double recoil
droppell
earth's center
electric towing trolley
enumeration data
erroneities
geochemistry of the hydrosphere
gonioautoecious
gossei
grinkle
Gulbarga
hardening period
hold sth in leash
Homburg hats
horticulturally
i-quethe
indcation
Internal Security Assessor
iron(iii) ammonium oxalate
joint(articular)capsule
Kerala Plains
kleinke
knownquantity
let-go current
let-off motion
lippizaners
Loei, Changwat
Lunain
machine-tending cycle
materials specification manual
metastable range
mobile moisture
molecular fragment method
mouse-gray
naphtha soap
New Edinburg
nonaffiliate
nucleopolyhedroviral
Ocean General Inc.
opacin
operational multiplier
Opotecan
otitis externa furunculosa
perexcellently
precipitation convection
rate of variation
relocatable macroassembler
renewable energy resources
revved-up
rotating mass inertia conversion factor
Sakanaka
sasts-s
scop
scroll chuck
set off sth
SEXAFS
shutdown heat
side screw
spacing screw
spontaneous out-of-gear
stomatoplasty
Stourport-on-Severn
structure of the biotic community
stuffed beef steak
takes it outside
tetradecanoic
transit vernier
two-bar motive
up hill and down dale
vegetative micellium
vortex shedding
water tight
whenabouts
winningly
zinc powder