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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C- Christopher Tietjens


S- Sylvia Satterthwaite


M- Sylvia's mother


F- Father Consett


 


F: The pictures no doubt belong to the hotel's former existence.


S: Was it an abattoir 1?


M: So very sad. In the midst 2 of life... Oh, here we are. There is a night express, you're right. Wagons-lits, dining car, and you'll be at Groby with a day to spare before the funeral. A public appearance together couldn't be more timely 3. My cousin Westershire got wind of something and I was forced to lie to him. As head of the family, the Duke takes it personally when lives become untidy.


S: I'm not going back to Christopher if I have to be in bed by nine o'clock. My own bed, I mean, of course.


F: This was the last place Christianised in Europe. The old pagan demons 4 are still at their work. The sooner you're away from here, the sooner you'll not have such wicked thoughts.


S: They are yours, not mine.



1 abattoir
n.屠宰场,角斗场
  • The sheep were driven to the local abattoir.羊被赶到当地的屠宰场。
  • It was surreal meeting her at the abattoir.竟然会在屠宰场里遇见她,真离奇。
2 midst
n.中部,中间,当中
  • The hut is in the midst of the forest.小屋在森林深处。
  • There is a thief in our midst.我们当中有小偷。
3 timely
adj.及时的,适时的;adv.及时地
  • We are particularly grateful to him for his timely help.我们特别感谢他的及时帮助。
  • Your arrival was most timely yesterday.你们昨天来得非常及时。
4 demons
n.恶人( demon的名词复数 );恶魔;精力过人的人;邪念
  • demons torturing the sinners in Hell 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼
  • He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood. 他为心魔所困扰,那可追溯至他饱受创伤的童年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abnormal curvature
abymes
alots
armour clad
as the spirit takes one
Back together
boiling method
business boundary
butyl-alcohol-acetone fermentation
carbon-film potentiometer
Cerenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
cockpit entry
colour synthetic jewel
Corneille, Pierre
correctors
couple on
daymakeup
doerge
dormancy form
doxapril
earconic
eggcrate louver
electronic data exchange
excess pressure simulator
falling-behind
farming biology
fixed point iteration
fixed-point register
gage correction
gamma ray laser
genus pinctadas
gesler
Giannettite
grid (tebler)
Haapiti
harbor bureau
have a keen scent for
hirtzler
his thing
immersed tunneling method
income for consumption
indigeneship
industrial quarter
insufficient cropping
internetbased
intertidal zone
Kelani Ganga
LMM (logic master module)
machinery joining
marynare
mechanical straightening
melanocetids
metasystox
microspherocyte
MLR minimum lending rate
mobile generating set
monostable multivibrator
Morus serrata
music paging system
mvto
needle opening pressure
NSC-12066
operant chamber
paralytic ectropion
paternal aunt
peridentium
prevaccination
proximolingual
pyocyanic acid
reciprocal theorems
rohs
Saswana
self-adaptive interface
separate products
shipmen
simple tissue
sketching pencil
slateful
soil bulldozing
sound bows
soven
specificity analysis
straight jet
succubi
syndrome of depletion of yin causing yang collapse
Taanach
toner particles
total cumulative output value of industry
train operation accident
translatory shift
transportable technology
treatment rationale
trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine
turtle's calipash
undramatised
unguilt
vacuolize
water content of coating
wire gauzes
wisecracker
xanthine(Xan)