时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:新视野大学英语:视听说教程 3


英语课

 


Task 2: A Work Qualification Test

Script

Once there was a Scottish accountant. The business has been in the family for generations and generations. Over time, with the countless 1 clients that had gone in and out of the office, the marble step in front of the building had developed a big, deep dip in it from all the wear and tear.

The accountant’s friends kept telling him that he had better get it replaced; otherwise he’d be sued 2 if anyone ever slipped and fell.

Reluctantly, the accountant called a stonemason to get a quote for the repairs. When the stonemason got there, the accountant demanded a price for a new step.

“Ah, big job,” said the e stonemason, “But I suppose I could give you a new step for a hundred pounds.” The accountant was stunned 3. “Are you crazy, man? I can’t pay you a hundred pounds!” Thinking about it for a second, he turned to the stonemason and asked, “What would you charge me to dig up the step and turn it over so that the worn part is in the ground and I’d get a new square step?” The stonemason hesitated, “20pounds.”

“Do it!” Demanded the accountant, “And call me when you’re done.”

The accountant went back inside to read his books, but after only 15minutes the stonemason rang the bell. As the accountant opened the door, he saw the stonemason standing 4 there, pointing to a deep dip in the step. The stonemason laughed as he said, “Your great-great granddaddy thought of that a hundred and fifty years ago!”


 


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For Reference 5

1. countless clients that had gone in and out of the office

2. He turn the step over so that the worn part was in the ground



adj.无数的,多得不计其数的
  • In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
  • I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。
v.(为要求赔偿损失而)起诉( sue的过去式和过去分词 );控告;请求;要求(尤用于法庭)
  • The company sued for defamation. 这个公司因受到诽谤而提起诉讼。
  • He sued the newspaper for libel. 他起诉那家报社犯有诽谤罪。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
n.提到,说到,暗示,查看,查阅
  • We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
  • I like to have my reference books within my reach.我喜欢把参考书放到伸手可取的地方。
学英语单词
a change of scenery
accumulation zone
aerothermodynamic duct (ramjet)
alloy for conductor
bactrocera (zeugodacus) nigrifacies
bad banks
Barqueros
base bid specifications
baseline configuration
biggish
bontle
boot sock
bredrin
bulbus
burstiest
CCET
centralized control over the revenues and expenditures
conical boring
cpdes of construction
dark night of the soul
delineation unit
dhurries
Diacort
dis-associating
disanimation
dropsied
dweck
dzialdowka (wkra)
dziedzic
editer
enteroclysm
espo
extensive propertys
filarees
fortheir
free-radical polymerization
frequency modulatinon index
furme
gastric mucoitin
genus pisanosauruss
hairlike
hard salting
heavy-duty traffic
honeymoon effect
inertia immunity sync circuit
integrated weapon-aiming computer
international indebtedness
intrayle
kernels
labyrinthine congestion
lapout
Leri's sign
love-it-or-hate-it
macrolactones
main engine foundation
mechanics of fracture
melanofibroma
methyl phenyl silicone resin
mobile classroom
moevable
molines
monopile
Nanzi District
occipital crest
olefine
Pak Nam
perfectly mobil component
peripheral jetskirt
poker coordinates
potato tuberworm
preferential reabsorption
pressure receptor
primary production
push tube
qingdao
random integral
roller drying
sawed-off shotguns
short-listeds
shum
Sicorten
specific pressure
spermine synthase
stroma gl. thyreoide?
suivi
T.S.A.
tangential servo
tempus edax rerum
terrifical
tiruvarur
tongue sign
tooth clinching
transsect
unbrowsable
video solar magnetograph
viridofulvin
Wallman amplifier
Warren-Root model
white blood cell count
wyrne
yellowgold