时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: This is Real English from BBC 1 Learning 2 English. I'm Neil.


Yang Li: 大家好,我是杨莉。


Neil: Today we're looking at English idioms.


Yang Li: 英语中有许多成语,特别精彩,值得专门记下来,今天我们学习那一个, Neil?


Neil: Todays idiom is – to kill two birds with one stone. To kill two birds with one stone.


Yang Li: Oh, 这个成语听起来很残忍!一个石头砸死两只鸟。


Neil: It does a bit. But it's a very useful idiom. It means 3 to do two things at the same time, when you might have done just one.


Yang Li: 那到是,听起来是一个非常有用的成语。当我们可以同时做两件事情而不是一件事,我们可以说 I killed two birds with one stone. 在汉语里我们就说一箭双雕。


Neil: So the Chinese is similar then? Here's an example of how to use it in English.


Examples


I went to Beijing on a business trip but a lot of my family live there too, so I killed two birds with one stone – I worked hard but saw my family as well.


I'm making a birthday cake for my sister tonight - but it's my flatmate's birthday on Tuesday so I think I'll add just a few extra ingredients 4 and make two cakes – kill two birds with one stone.


Yang Li: 上面对话说到这位女士去北京出差,因为自己的亲戚都在北京所以顺便就去探亲了。 She killed two birds with one stone. 不管怎样,我们得快点儿走了! Neil, do you want to go for a coffee?


Neil: Where are you going?


Yang Li: Just the coffee shop across the street.


Neil: Brilliant. I can go to the internet cafe next to the coffee shop and check my emails.


Yang Li: Ah, kill two birds with one stone?


Neil: Yes, I can kill two birds with one stone. Coffee and emails! Let's go.


Yang Li: 如果大家想学到更多的地道英语都可以登陆我们的网站 www.bbcchina.com.cn. Thanks for listening. 下次再会。


Neil: Bye.



1 BBC
abbr.(=British Broadcasting Corporation)英国广播公司
  • She works for the BBC.她为英国广播公司工作。
  • The BBC was founded in 1922.英国广播公司建于1922年。
2 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。
3 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
4 ingredients
n.(混合物的)组成部分( ingredient的名词复数 );(烹调的)原料;(构成)要素;因素
  • All ingredients are readily available from your local store. 所有的原料都可以方便地从你当地的商店买到。
  • We never use second quality ingredients to build building. 我们决不使用次等材料用于建筑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a-d converter
adaptive complex
adulatorious
algotherapist
ampullarias
angular momentum gyro
appendices epiploic?
aurous azide
belt polisher
big-side
bird-shot
Black Marias
boiler back end plate
brachiosaur
by all means
call blocking
causate
charter bare charter party
chronic atrophic gastritis
Chvostek sign
clear distance
Clematoclethra sichuanensis
compressed air control
constant chord
cursor style
Dahannaba, Ras
database concept
day markings
depressurisations
devil a one
dolloping
double hung
dtv (digital television)
dump routines
dutycycle
edge gating
eleventh cranial nerve
enicospilus dolosus
executive mechanism of machine
failure detection and isolation
fight prizes
flowers of wine
guiding hole
heleniamarin
herpes progenitalis
hydrogen inner-cooling generator
hypothyroxinemic
industrial diaphragm pressure gauge
inner web
instructional validation
interveined
inventoriable costs
involute geometry
jurisdictionals
Lamasse
lifting cam
mcilrath
meme virus
Micronase
Monte-Carlo, Dist.
Mullsjö
musculi trapezius
neutron mass
nonbreaking
notosinister testaceus
origin switch
other-than-earth satellite
outre
pachyphyllous
pessus ichthammolis
Peyik
pi minus
pinhold
postmedial line
power supply source
provisional invoice
R-3-ZON
relative skewness
rigid training airship
rolling missile
rudder ratio adjustment
scalloped edge
sealable
side awning
skaftafells
slogan
Solestro
son of Momus
squabblesome
stanwixes
swinging feeder
takes two to tango
tendering ring
transformer amplifier
unmilitarily
valvula bicuspidalis
visclosky
Vurnary
wear the pant
winding stair
wood batten
yammering