时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Li: Chicken or beef?


Male customer: Chicken please.


Li: There you go sir. And madam? Chicken or beef?


Female 1 customer: Oooh, beef please.


Li: There you are.


Female customer: Thanks.


Li: (whispering) Hello and welcome to the programme… and to the flight. 大家好,我是杨莉。今天我在打零工,当空姐服务员,供餐的时间特忙,我得赶快回去 – lots of hungry customers.


Chicken or beef sir?


Familiar customer: (irritated) Actually, I have a beef with you.


Li: Beef? Ok, there you go.


Familiar customer: No, no – I don't want beef. I have a beef with you about this menu.


Li: You want some beef… with me? Sorry sir, I don't think we can provide that service.


Familiar customer: Listen. My beef is you don't have vegetarian 2 food.


Li: Er… I'm not quite sure I understand.


Familiar customer: (genuinely willing to help) Oh, I'm very sorry, do let me explain. In English, we can use the word 'beef' to mean 'complaint' or 'disagreement'.


Li: Oh I see – 原来牛肉这个词也可以表示一种抱怨或不同意见…


Familiar customer: Yes – we say 'I have a beef with someone or something over or about something' – a disagreement about something.


Li: A beef about something 就是对某事有意见…


Familiar customer: Let me see if the other passengers can help give us some examples. Would you mind, sir?


Male customer: Not at all. How about: I had a beef with my teacher about the amount of homework we were getting.


Familiar customer: Yes – if you felt you were getting too much homework you might say that! Thank you.


Male customer: Welcome.


Familiar customer: Anyone else?


Female customer: Oh, I can think of one: Mark had a beef with his wife.


Familiar customer: Very good. He had a disagreement with his wife. What was the reason? A full sentence please.


Female customer: Mark had a beef with his wife over… over… parking their car. He thought she always parked it very badly.


Familiar customer: Great. Well I hope she's better at parking now. Is that clear, Li?


Li: Yes, it is now thank you teacher, I mean sir… I mean… you look a bit familiar! A bit like our presenter 3 Finn.


Familiar customer: Shhhh… yes it is me. But I'm on holiday – not working, well only working a bit. After explaining this phrase I'm done!


Li: Well, have a nice holiday!


Familiar customer: Thanks. And I do still have a beef with this menu – why don't you have a vegetarian option?


Li: We do – but you need to reserve it online first, Finn, I mean sir. And while you're online, why not check out our website bbcukchina.com for more phrases like this one!


Familiar customer: Yes, it's a wonderful site. Back to holidays now. Bye.


Li: Bye.



1 female
adj.雌的,女(性)的;n.雌性的动物,女子
  • We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
  • The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。
2 vegetarian
n.素食者;adj.素食的
  • She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
  • I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
3 presenter
n.(电视、广播的)主持人,赠与者
  • Most people think being a television presenter is exciting.很多人认为当电视节目主持人是一件刺激的事情。
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.这个节目最受欢迎的主持人被换掉了。
学英语单词
6-deoxy-L-mannose
acibenzolar
acrochordal bar
advocacy journalism
aguilar del rio alhama
amities
anisodimensional particle
antefix
avonleas
baggage hold
blasting-tumbling machine
breathitt
butternut pumpkin
carte-blanche
chelon
cometary globule
compassionated
compensating-field winding
condensive reactance
cristatus
Cuprelne
curly grasses
cutting resistance
cyclic polysiloxane
debakey
Decapepthl
educational needs
electrophoretic variants
external interrupt processor
extrapolated range
get the axe
golczewski
great slave lakes
Gryllotalpa unispina
high flier
highwaywomen
horse bean
in circuit emulator
information hiding
inorganic active filler
intercepting safety
intermittent type cab signaling
Invertebrata
isopluvial map
japanese honeysuckles
Jurancon
Killeagh
lapithos (lapitos)
legal notice
lyngbya semiplena
malarin
massaging cream
matriarchs
microcomputer master/slave operation
middlescence
molecular diffusion membrane
Moonaree
mosquelike
multisystem
Namasagali
non-crystallising
normal incidence section
NSC-80439
olfactory capsule
pallidum Leucocytozoon
PC technician
peculations
petrovskaite
pinus yunnanensis franch.
polarized reflectance
previous cycle year
print envelope
puccinia leucophaea
quota profit
re-insertion
reference sound power
Saybolt color
sea bream
single-pulse oscillation
ski tows
smoking point
social environament
spermatogonial cells
sticking point
structure design
stunt cock
super-clean bench
sync level
tabal
tetrasporaphite
thin-film circuit
topdecks
toshing
tying mechanism
typical model
unrestoring
weakly complete
woebegone
Words pay no debts
write-downs
xenogenetically
Yalu River