赖世雄中级美语听课笔记Lesson 2

Lesson Two How To Improve Your English

生词摘录

funny farm

mental asylum

improve

课文

第二课How to Improve Your English

Dialogue 实用会话

Mack is talking to his friend Don.

M: Hi, Don! How are you doing (Howdy )in your English class?

D: Not so well, I'm afraid.

M: What's the problem?

D: I'm not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?

(goof around )

M: Well, uh... I have an American girlfriend.

D: Aha! That's it. Now I know what to do. (He runs off.)

M: Hey, come back! I was just kidding!

梅克正在和他的朋友唐聊天。

梅克：嗨，唐！你英文课上得怎么样？

唐：恐怕不怎么理想。

梅克：出了什么问题？

唐：我一直没进步。告诉我，为什么你的英文那么棒？

梅克：呃，这个吗…我交了个美国女朋友。

唐：啊哈！就是这样。现在我知道该怎么做了！（他跑走了。）

梅克：嘿，回来啊！我只是在开玩笑！

讲解

Mack is talking to his friend Don. Mack and Don are both boys. (or men)

Mack says, "Hi, Don. How are you doing is your English class?"

Don answers, "Not so well, I am afraid."

Mack asks, " What is the problem?"

and Don tells him, "I am not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?" and Mack says, "Well, uh...I have an American girlfriend."

Don says, "Aha, That is it. Now I know what to do."

He runs off. And Mack says, "Hey, come back. I was just kidding."

P: Now I probably would like to hear you speak English only, so introduce yourself

in English again

B: Hi, everybody. This is Bruce.

P: However, this is basically an English teaching program, so every now and then, of course you will step in and speak Chinese. But most of the time, you will explain the key points, if there is any, in English. So lesson two we will have a short dialogue. Now, by the way, what is meaning of this word "dialogue"?

B: A dialogue is a conversation between two people.

P: 也就是两个人之间的对话

P: And that is spelled?

B: conversation or dialogue?

P: Dialogue.

B: OK. Well, you can see it on page 9 here, "d-i-a-l-o-g-u-e", but it is also spelled "d-i-a-l-o-g". So there are two spellings for this word.

哦，有两种拼法 dialogue 这是我们现在看到的拼法，但也有人说dialog

P: "dialog", the pronunciation is exactly the same. 发音是完全相同的。

Conversation 未必指的是两个人，三个人，五个人之间的会话都可以用conversation B: or Sometimes just one person. Peter, because sometimes I hear you talking to yourself.

有时候也要以一个人。也可以用conversation，我们这样说：刚才Peter 嗯自言自语。那就暗示：

P: Peter is going to be sent to a kind of a hospital.

B: Funny farm.

P: Funny farm. He was raised on the farm. （农场）

Asylum 正式用法

B: mental asylum

P: Yesterday Peter was sent to a nearby mental asylum, because he kept talking to himself.

B：朗读这段对话

How to Improve Your English

Mack is talking to his friend Don.

M: Hi, Don! How are you doing in your English class?

D: Not so well, I'm afraid.

M: What's the problem?

D: I'm not improving. Tell me, how come your English is so good?

M: Well, uh…I have an American girlfriend.

D: Aha! That's it. Now I know what to do. (He runs off.)

M: Hey, Come back! I was just kidding!

Improve v.

B: He improved his English by studying every day. (vt)