听力部分注解
Dialogue Completion:
Avending
machines:自动售货机
antsy: What
a good Yankee word!This implies that you are worried that something is
not going to happen, and that you want it to happen as soon as possible.
So perhaps you have taken all of your exams at college, and are waiting
around all summer for your marks to come back to you. You want to know if
you have high enough grades to getsintosStanford University, and can't
wait for the postman to deliver the letter to you.("坐立不安的";ant是蚂蚁。中文的"像热锅上的蚂蚁一样"绝配!)
用法:I'm getting antsy waiting for my
exam marks to arrive in the post. I want to know if Stanford is going to
accept my application to study anthropology.
等学校寄成绩等得我坐立不安的。我想知道,斯坦福大学会不会录取我读人类学专业。
itchy:
In this case, it means much the same as "antsy". "To have
itchy feet" means that you can't wait for something to happen, such
as a holiday or the visit of a good friend. Or if you are forced to stand
around waiting for something to happen, rather than making it happen
yourself. It means that you want your feet to take you somewhere else.(意思相当于"antsy"。原意为"痒痒的"。痒自然难耐,很形象。)
用法:I'm getting itchy feet waiting
here at the train station-let's call Alice on her mobile phone and see if
she's been delayed somewhere.
我已经在火车站等得不耐烦了--给Alice打手机看她是不是在哪儿耽搁了。
bonus or
bonus time:发奖金的日子
around the
corner: This means that an event is just
about to happen, usually with a matter of days, although sometimes it is
longer.(近在眼前,就要发生)
用法:Christmas is just around the
corner. I wonder what I'm going to get from my parents.圣诞节就要到了。我不知道父母会给我什么礼物。
bleak: In
this case, bleak suggests a scenario in which nothing good is happening/is
going to happen. It makes you think of a snowy, windswept landscape,
devoid of life and very cold. So a bleak outlook for a company would be
one with no chance of growth or profit, and even the possibility of
bankruptcy. A bleak outlook for a relationship is oneswheresboth people in
it can't seem to see eye to eye-that is to understand each other at all.(没有希望的,使人沮丧的,惨淡的)
用法:NBC isshavingsa very bad financial
year, and I'm afraid the outlook for next year is just as bleak.
NBC公司今年财政状况不好,恐怕明年也同样没有什么希望。
cheater/cheat:骗子,作弊的人
用法:As a cheater on the English exam,
Spring won the scholarship that Shirley, the best in the class, was going
to get.
Spring通过在英语考试中作弊拿到了本该班上学习最好的Shirly获得的奖学金。
fail the
entire section/year/class: This means
that the teacher is going to give each student in the class, or in the
year, a fail, rather than a pass mark, which will affect their total exam
mark for the year.(给不及格的成绩)
for the
time being:目前一段时间
If you "rob someone" of something
abstract, such as time or emotion, it is almost as bad as robbing them of
(or stealing their) money. Very often in relationships, both people end up
becoming emotionally dependent on the other person, and ends up robbing
them of time and emotion.(抢了某人某种东西,这是比喻的说法)
用法:John has robbed me of all emotion,
and now I just feel tired, drained and exhausted.
John夺走了我的全部感情,现在我只觉得自己累了,耗干了,疲惫不堪。 |