时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:英语灵异故事


英语课
[00:15.56]The Coffee Cup
[00:23.25]神秘的咖啡杯
[00:30.33]Each morning I would get the key to the dining room
[00:33.46]from the front desk
[00:34.97]and unlock the ornate gate with stained glass panels
[00:38.78]that served as the dining room's front door.
[00:42.31]The dining room always was very dark
[00:44.86]as its windows were shuttered each night,
[00:48.39]the sun had not yet risen when I arrived,
[00:52.05]and the alcove 1 in which the lobby doorway
[00:54.81]was located did not let light spill in from the lobby,
[00:59.22]so I would quickly maneuver 2 around the cash register area
[01:03.01]and grope for the panel of light switches under the counter.
[01:07.35]Although the dining room
[01:08.97]had been cleaned by the previous night's crew,
[01:12.12]I noticed that there always was a half-drunk cup of coffee
[01:16.19]left on the table nearest the kitchen.
[01:19.40]That table's chair at the cup's position
[01:21.94]always was pulled back
[01:24.03]as if someone had just been sitting there.
[01:27.58]This never fazed me,
[01:29.21]but it struck me as peculiar 3 and rather rude
[01:32.99]that someone would leave a dirty cup like that.
[01:36.90]The kitchen crew would show up just a little after I had,
[01:40.80]but they entered through the loading dock doors at the back
[01:44.02]as they were not supposed to be seen by hotel guests.
[01:48.30]The other busboy who opened on the weekends told me
[01:52.45]he often found a cup on Saturday mornings
[01:55.41]but never on Sundays.
[02:09.82]讲解
[03:46.02]Each morning I would get the key to the dining room
[03:48.84]from the front desk
[03:50.15]and unlock the ornate gate with stained glass panels
[03:54.28]that served as the dining room's front door.
[04:08.85]The dining room always was very dark
[04:11.49]as its windows were shuttered each night,
[04:21.32]the sun had not yet risen when I arrived,
[04:24.60]and the alcove in which the lobby doorway
[04:27.62]was located did not let light spill in from the lobby,
[04:42.90]so I would quickly maneuver around the cash register area
[04:46.71]and grope for the panel of light switches under the counter.
[04:57.26]Although the dining room
[04:58.52]had been cleaned by the previous night's crew,
[05:01.64]I noticed that there always was a half-drunk cup of coffee
[05:05.67]left on the table nearest the kitchen.
[05:19.71]That table's chair at the cup's position
[05:22.19]always was pulled back
[05:24.24]as if someone had just been sitting there.
[05:35.15]This never fazed me,
[05:36.89]but it struck me as peculiar and rather rude
[05:40.48]that someone would leave a dirty cup like that.
[05:54.35]The kitchen crew would show up just a little after I had,
[05:58.12]but they entered through the loading dock doors at the back
[06:01.65]as they were not supposed to be seen by hotel guests.
[06:16.19]The other busboy who opened on the weekends told me
[06:20.16]he often found a cup on Saturday mornings
[06:23.00]but never on Sundays.
[06:47.33]语言点
[06:49.36]front desk  前台,服务台
[06:58.90]reception desk
[07:02.38]a receptionist
[07:06.05]front desk
[07:15.77]ornate gate
[07:19.04]ornate
[07:25.25]That style of architecture is too ornate for my taste.
[07:35.09]stained glass panels
[07:39.37]stained
[07:48.10]stained glass panels
[07:50.08]panel  面板
[07:55.31]serve as
[08:01.50]That mistake served as a warning to you.
[08:08.85]shuttered
[08:12.46]shutter  百叶窗
[08:19.07]alcove
[08:27.18]休息室
[08:29.18]lobby doorway
[08:32.34]lobby  大厅,休息室
[08:37.70]doorway  门口
[08:43.39]spill
[08:48.75]The ink spilt all over the desk.
[08:54.13]spill
[08:58.29]spill in from the lobby
[09:11.00]maneuver
[09:18.30]演习,策略
[09:23.86]maneuver around the cash register area
[09:31.06]move
[09:31.88]maneuver
[09:35.22]grope for  凭感觉去找
[09:39.69]I groped for the door handle in the dark.
[09:46.18]half-drunk
[09:49.86]fazed
[09:55.65]The news did not faze him.
[10:01.32]loading dock door
[10:15.44]谢谢收听

1 alcove
n.凹室
  • The bookcase fits neatly into the alcove.书架正好放得进壁凹。
  • In the alcoves on either side of the fire were bookshelves.火炉两边的凹室里是书架。
2 maneuver
n.策略[pl.]演习;v.(巧妙)控制;用策略
  • All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.在军事演习后,所有战斗机都安全降落在机场上。
  • I did get her attention with this maneuver.我用这个策略确实引起了她的注意。
3 peculiar
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
学英语单词
5-bromoisophthalic acid
acentric
ancient chinese literature
archbishopricks
aspartylglucosylaminase
bambusa dolichomerithalla hay.cv.silver stripe lin
bean-eater
bien vu
Bletilla hyacinthina
blue funk
brownie mix
carcass pumping
Cecropidae
chemosensillae
chicken hazard
chittue
chocolate candies
chromospheric eruption
class insectas
Clusiidae
color guard
conjugate division
crystallizing glass
cursive script
curved lamellar
desacetylbufotalin
Diaz del Castillo, Bernal
die setting
dielectrically encapsulated trench
differential phase modulation
ectodermal blastomere
fiber preform
filtering quality
footler
Forsterite-marble
fume persistent paint
genus artocarpuss
health-and-beauty
hearing office
Heldburgite
heptanetriene
ikasts
immune protein
injector orifice
ink - jet printer
innermore
intercommunicating coach
iron(iii) oxychromate
Kilk.
labour productivity in tons per person-day
let it fly
lifeboat stern
lifesense
lighthousemen
line coordinates
look the same
macro-oriented business language
market method
Melicocca
miramycin
mixed highs gray transmission
necessarii heredes
Ondozero, Ozero
out of the road
overreach distance protection equipment
oxylebiuss
personal details
pistol-whips
pleurocarpous moss
polyketide
porch chamber
PR (public relations)
put sb down somewhere
queen dowager
radiative electron transition
ratio calibration
reflux supply
salary standardization
scleron
sectiones pontis
shun giku
Simone, Nina
squish motor
stereoscopic acuity
strain-gauge transducer
suborganelle
surface-contrcolled secondary recrystallization
syllabic break
synamphoteron
taikichiro
tank condenser
teledrama
to throw down
trap/breakpoint
U. C. B.
undercorrected lens
us educational
vaporus
wallposter
warranty costs
World Ship Society