时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


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[00:22.39]Spooky Pursuing Motorists
[00:32.41]追赶我的开车幽灵
[00:42.91]We reached her house without incident.
[00:45.52]I made her a drink and reassured 1
[00:47.77]that there is a rational explanation to everything.
[00:51.58]I even reassured myself.
[00:53.51]Once she had calmed down, she fell asleep,
[00:56.80]and I locked her doors from the outside
[00:59.73]and put the key back through the letterbox.
[01:02.87]I set off walking back to my own house.
[01:06.45]When I saw two glaring car headlights
[01:08.67]at the top of her street
[01:10.16](which I had not noticed a very short time earlier)
[01:13.33]I once again started to freak out.
[01:16.32]So I started to run in the opposite direction to the car,
[01:20.19]which was incidentally the opposite direction to my house.
[01:24.32]My heart was racing 2, but I didn't know why
[01:27.71] - there was just something strange about this car.
[01:31.70]I can't explain it in words.
[01:34.63]You could feel it, and so did my girlfriend.
[01:37.81]Now it was my turn to start panicking.
[01:41.31]I ran down a number of alleyways and snickets,
[01:45.30]gradually working my way
[01:47.42]around the outskirts 3 of the town back towards my house,
[01:51.65]and at the same time trying to avoid the roads like the plague.
[01:55.13]There was nobody to be seen anywhere or any other cars.
[02:00.05]I really, really started to get scared
[02:03.30]when I came close to a road and the strange car rolled by.
[02:08.07]It was as if it was looking for me.
[02:11.20]I ducked down below a hedge
[02:13.38]and hoped that I hadn't been seen
[02:16.01](that is how serious it was getting),
[02:19.56]but before I did - I caught a quick glimpse of two fat faces
[02:24.21]with the 'odd expressions' my girlfriend had remarked on.
[02:29.31]The really were eerie 4. Like, melted.
[02:33.68]I don't know how to put it into words.
[02:36.35]Perhaps they were wearing masks?
[02:39.13]Nevertheless, it continued to drive on by me,
[02:42.36]so I assumed that I remained unseen.
[02:45.18]But it must have been a close call.
[02:58.29]讲解
[05:02.39]语言点
[05:04.46]without incident
[05:10.79]In spite of my fears, the meal passed without incident.
[05:20.61]reassure  使安心,使放心,安慰
[05:26.97]The police reassured us
[05:28.49]that the incident will never happen again.
[05:36.57]be one's turn to do something
[05:41.75]It is your turn to clean the room this time.
[05:48.44]panicking
[05:49.59]panic
[05:58.21]Whatever happened, just don't panic.
[06:04.95]snicket  墙间过道
[06:12.90]work one's way
[06:19.07]We carefully worked our way in the jungle.
[06:26.45]avoid  故意回避,避开
[06:32.75]I tried to avoid the worst of the traffic.
[06:39.71]plague  瘟疫
[06:44.38]roll  汽车开动,行驶
[06:50.26]The bus slowly rolled backwards 5 down the hill.
[06:57.45]duck  躲闪,迅速低头,弯腰
[07:06.16]He saw a policeman coming and ducked behind a car.
[07:15.72]catch a glimpse of  瞥见,看见
[07:19.87]I only caught a glimpse of his car.
[07:25.09]eerie  怪诞,奇怪
[07:31.26]a close call  勉强脱险,九死一生
[07:45.54]英文原文
[07:48.34]We reached her house without incident.
[07:51.01]I made her a drink and reassured
[07:53.37]that there is a rational explanation to everything.
[07:56.87]I even reassured myself.
[07:58.91]Once she had calmed down, she fell asleep,
[08:02.76]and I locked her doors from the outside
[08:05.48]and put the key back through the letterbox.
[08:08.80]I set off walking back to my own house.
[08:12.04]When I saw two glaring car headlights
[08:14.34]at the top of her street
[08:15.67](which I had not noticed a very short time earlier)
[08:19.05]I once again started to freak out.
[08:22.15]So I started to run in the opposite direction to the car,
[08:25.69]which was incidentally the opposite direction to my house.
[08:29.95]My heart was racing, but I didn't know why
[08:33.80] - there was just something strange about this car.
[08:37.62]I can't explain it in words.
[08:40.07]You could feel it, and so did my girlfriend.
[08:43.70]Now it was my turn to start panicking.
[08:46.69]I ran down a number of alleyways and snickets,
[08:51.16]gradually working my way
[08:53.06]around the outskirts of the town back towards my house,
[08:57.32]and at the same time trying to avoid the roads like the plague.
[09:00.68]There was nobody to be seen anywhere or any other cars.
[09:05.56]I really, really started to get scared
[09:08.80]when I came close to a road and the strange car rolled by.
[09:13.80]It was as if it was looking for me.
[09:16.77]I ducked down below a hedge
[09:19.03]and hoped that I hadn't been seen
[09:21.87](that is how serious it was getting),
[09:25.05]but before I did - I caught a quick glimpse of two fat faces
[09:29.98]with the 'odd expressions' my girlfriend had remarked on.
[09:35.01]The really were eerie. Like, melted.
[09:39.51]I don't know how to put it into words.
[09:41.96]Perhaps they were wearing masks?
[09:44.74]Nevertheless, it continued to drive on by me,
[09:47.94]so I assumed that I remained unseen.
[09:50.68]But it must have been a close call.
[10:00.98]谢谢收听

1 reassured
adj.使消除疑虑的;使放心的v.再保证,恢复信心( reassure的过去式和过去分词)
  • The captain's confidence during the storm reassured the passengers. 在风暴中船长的信念使旅客们恢复了信心。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The doctor reassured the old lady. 医生叫那位老妇人放心。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 racing
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
3 outskirts
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
4 eerie
adj.怪诞的;奇异的;可怕的;胆怯的
  • It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
  • I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。
5 backwards
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
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a free wind
abnormal plasmocyte
advertation
aeration equipment
agit-
aitken particle
annular counter
arcography
BARTin'
be taken off allocation
Billiken, billiken,billikin
blowdown line
bottom door
butylene-glycol-1,4
cauma
cd.
censers
chill pill
chromatic numbers
chrome-manganese-silicon alloy steel
contranitent
crop cutter
cubicula
curvinervate
defaulted on
definities
diamond cone
digital broadcast satellite
dollar value lifo
drainage difficulty
drumcrees
dry bottom furnace
duo
emergent ray point
eminently
empresa
enlibra
ensense
fall a-
falsework
Fixed dates
for the time being
garden pea leaf miner
genus Algeripithecus
gonzals
He plays the piano for the fun of it
Hipersil alloy
hyperplasias
ill-shaped casting
iron-container rectifier
jazz ... up
laccic acid
Large-For-Dates
long neuron
loose needle survey
lucid ganoderma
lyddie
Maradi, Rég.de
maximum high-water lever
military macaws
millpool
modern auditor
money market equilibrium
multimedia PC
nemite
neon tube
new test
news-chronicle
nine-eyes
nitrated
noise simulator
novellous
parapente
perbunan
pestalotia melaleucae
piped in
plectranthus rugosus makino
pod people
pollen analysis method
post-cold-wars
processor to processor connection
professional sportsmen
random irregularity
regulatory role
resistibilities
rotary displacement gas meter
rotatable feeding shoe
sea-otters
seat guide
sensitivity to radiatoin
serial distribution
single phase circuit
softshells
storage(tank)
swamp honeysuckles
Tiruchirapalli
towbars
Tremacron forrestii
under frequency sensor
unsupported height
verification tree