englishpod_B0079

The Weekend-Funky Galaxy Battles(C0079)
A:They are breaking through!Set your blasters to full power!
B:Excellent job.Search the ship,she’s gotta be in here somewhere...bring her to me!
C:Lord Hater,we have a survivor here...
B:Where is she?Don’t make me destroy you,tell me where she is!
D:Not so fast!She will no longer be your prisoner!
It’s time you and I settled this once and for all! B:Y ou are unwise to think you can defeat me.Y ou know nothing of the power of the obscure side! D:We will stop you...
C:Lord Hater!We have an unidentified spacecraft taking off from the rear dock!They somehow managed to escape our tractor beam!
B:After them!
C:They are accelerating towards the speed of light We lost them,sir...
Key Vocabulary
break through phrase get through by force
blaster common
noun,plu-
ral the parts of a spaceship that are used for emit-ting bombs
settle verbfinish,end once and for
all
phrase forever unwise Adjective not wise,silly
manage verb be able to do
tractor beam
phrase
a device used for at-tracting one project to another from a distance speed of light
common noun,sin-gular
the rate at which light travels.299792458meters per second
Supplementary Vocabulary
android
common noun,sin-gular a robot that looks like a person
galaxy
common noun,sin-gular
any one of the very large groups of stars that make up the uni-verse
constellation
common noun,sin-gular
a group of celestial bod-ies (usually stars)that appear to form a pat-tern in the sky or ap-pear visibly related to each other.
parsec common
noun,sin-
gular is a unit of length,equal to just under31tril-lion kilometres or about 3.26light-years
light-year common
noun,sin-
gular the distance traveled in one year traveling at the speed of light。