时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: Hello, welcome to Real English from BBC Learning 1 English, I’m Neil.


Helen: 大家好,我是 Helen.


Neil: In Real English we look at words and phrases people use all the time, but you probably won’t find in your dictionary.


Helen: 希望您在今天的地道英语节目中能学到在词典里可能找不到的常用英语表达。Are you ok, Neil? You seem out of breath.


Neil: Oh, my train was cancelled, so I had to get a bus to work but it was packed with people and really slow because of the traffic.


Helen: Oh dear! 他的火车班次被取消了,结果他得坐公共汽车,在路上还堵了很久,所以上班迟到了。


Neil: What a nightmare 2!


Helen: A nightmare – 噩梦。


Neil: In English, a nightmare is a scary dream, but we can also use it to mean a bad experience or event.


Helen: A nightmare 是一个噩梦, 它也可以用来形容一段可怕的经历。


Example


A: Oh I’m glad that exam’s over. It was alright, wasn’t it?


B: Really? I thought it was a nightmare.


Neil: He thought the exam was a nightmare. It was too difficult for him and the experience was bad.


Helen: 对他来说,考试简直就是一场噩梦 a nightmare. 太难了,整个经历的感觉都不好。


Neil: Anyway Helen, how are you at the moment?


Helen: I’m alright, though I have got my in-laws staying at my house for six months.


Neil: Oh really, that sounds like an absolute 3 nightmare!


Helen: 我的公公婆婆搬到我家来住6个月,Neil 觉得听起来就是麻烦,特别可怕的噩梦,an absolute nightmare.


Neil: Well at least a bit of a nightmare…


Helen: 一点点可怕,a bit of a nightmare.


Neil: Bye!



1 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
2 nightmare
n.恶梦,可怕的事物,无法摆脱的恐惧
  • I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了。
  • I had a nightmare last nightand,lost sleep.昨夜我作了个恶梦,失眠了。
3 absolute
adj.十足的;绝对的;不受任何限制的
  • The first year of the course was an absolute doddle.第一年的课程简单极了。
  • I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要。
学英语单词
adfg
Agskaret
alternative duties
ascaricidin
ascendeur
at the onset of
Bauland
be well afoot
blood dissemination
body swerve
Boiginae
burguss
carrying load
chakram
clean remittance
clean-burning fuel
cockeyedly
collision induced spectrum
contribution fee
coonasses
corniculiferous
cryptoendolithic
dead-reckoning position
dili
distribution of social labor
dominance condition
effective rake
El Berrueso
embedded servo
emberiza spodocephala sordida
end-to-end scheduling
equivalence law
estates for life
euspory
faux amis
fdlibm
first order plotting instrument
flag-carriers
flammability hazard
flow promoter
forced-air cooling
Fortunella margarita Swingle
Galis
Grancher's syndrome
graveyard stew
hawk around
heading-knife
high boiling component
hit the light
holding furnace
inertial rate integrating gyroscope
inner cylinder
intermediaries
keeled garlic
koko nor
L'pool
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
law of the current of money
lift bracing
Lincoln Sea
macrosalb
manganese autunite
medical accelerator
medical-supply
more convenient
night-dark
nominations committee
non-homogeneous differential equation
odelberg
one cent
outward clearance certificate
photochemical energy
plane bottom hammer
polyhued
prudential factor
pucciniastrum boehmeriae
Quitexe
raisin
ranckle
rated rpm
razor strap
replication capacity
Ruyton
shippig country
small boat
someone's cup of tea
southern limit of eclipse
sparrowgrass
squareface
striae medullares
suck away
taphrina jahansonii sadebeck
toggleaction
tone arm for record player
topsyturvily
travel(l)ing cleaner
uber-fabulous
undetermined multipliers
unthreatenable
Wad Medani
wave energy coefficient
word root