天天用英语：三十四课 - The dental nurse who became an alligator catcher

来源

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38641709

单词

give up 放弃

tape 绑

jaw 下巴

licence 许可证

blame 责怪，责备

stray 流浪的动物

master-plan 大师设计的

superstition 迷信

be around 存在

dinosaur 恐龙

ecosystem 生态系统

keep … in check 使……处于掌控之中

aquatic 水生的

mindset 心态，意向

split second 一瞬间，一刹那

outweigh 比……还重

cop 警察

wiggle 扭动，摆动

warden 监督官

conquer 征服

handcuff 手铐

potentially 潜在地

forklift 叉车

问答

ol’ 口语化old中d弱化不发音

keep sth. in check

NCE 新概念

精句

盲目的模仿是东施效颦、邯郸学步，科学的模仿，才是站在巨人的肩膀上。

模仿——最好的学习是模仿、山寨到极致即原创

每天进步，责无旁贷。

笔记

我们的语感来自于句子节奏而不是散乱的单词。

alligator 短吻鳄

crocodile 鳄鱼

catcher 棒球比赛接球手

把句子结构当成一个单词去背诵。

masterplan  大师设计

superstition 迷信

superstitious 迷信的

be worn out = exhausted

lose weight = keep fit

nationalist = patriot

call in a game warden

try to make their way to the front

freeway = motorway

expressway = highway

express :

表达

快递

句子

• Christy Kroboth gave up her career as a dental nurse to focus on animals with a lot more teeth - alligators.

sb. gave up one’s … to do/for sth.

我愿意倾尽所有，换你莞尔一笑。

I would give up everything to see/for a moment of your smile.

理性分析优美句子的本质

• I’ve been a true animal love all my life.

I’ve been a true … all my life.

我这一生独爱美食。

I’ve been a true gourmet all my life.

他这辈子最爱拈花惹草。

He’s been a real Don Juan all his life.

• The homeowners are so afraid that they’re going to eat their kids and that they’re going to eat their dogs, but in the past 100 years we’ve only had one person killed by an alligator, so it’s all just superstition.

A is so afraid that B is going to … and that B is going to …, but …, so…

同学们很担心英语会成为他们最大的敌人，英语也会成为他们唯一的敌人，但是在这一个月的学习中，他们发现真正的敌人或许只是耐心不足，所以，他们反而没那么害怕了。

The students are so afraid that English is going to be their biggest enemy, and that it is going to be their only enemy, but in the last month’s study, they’ve found that maybe the lack of patience was the real rival, so they are afraid no more.

• Something told me:”I have to do this - not only for the alligators, but to prove to these big ol’ country boys that I can.”

I have to … - not only for …, but to prove to sb. that I can

我必须得变得更好，不光是为了自己和未来的婆媳妇儿，也是要证明给爸妈看，我棒棒哒。

I have to get better - not only for myself and my future wife, but to prove to my parents that I can.

Talk with yourself every morning and night, be a better self and make things right.

• I ran out to the pond, got the alligator, taped him up and ended up passing the test. It was one of the happiest moments of my life and that adrenaline rush lasted the whole day.

I was trying to do…, but it was …and …

我在尽力改正错误，但这已经是我今天翻的第二是个错误了，而前面的错误，一个都没改对。

I was trying to correct my mistake, but it was the twentieth mistake I had made today, and none of the previous ones were corrected.

我正打算减肥，但是我现在在成都旅游，而且我这个周啥事也没有，所以…

I was trying to lose weight, but I was travelling in Chengdu and I am free all week, so…

• The alligator didn’t like that, so he started wiggling around, trying to get away.

A didn’t …., so he …, doing….

我们不知道原来一个晚上可以这样充实，所以我们浪费了太多个夜晚，吃喝玩乐，虚度时光。

We didn’t a night can be so rewarding, so e wasted so many of them, eating, drinking, playing and getting old.

• When I see that change in people that’s what really drives me to do what I do.

  
  

• That’s why I wake up and why I do my job every single day.

That’s +why/when/where/when …

• I was trying to call my buddies to help, but it was six o’clock in the morning and none of my volunteers were answering.

I was trying to do… , but it was … and …

• Being the animal lover I am I think it’s very important that we educate
  everybody on the animals.

Being … I am I think it‘s very … that/to…