高教版公共英语3级精讲班讲义

公共英语3级精讲班第15讲讲义

Dialogue

Dialogue 1：

The two speakers are talking about how to arrange travels for holidays.

1.What do you think of package holiday?

你认为跟团旅游怎么样？

package holiday跟团旅游

2.They are usually very cheap, but joining a crowd of noisy people and

eating plastic food is not my idea of a holiday.

他们通常很便宜，但是和一群吵闹的人们在一起吃盒饭不是我理想的假日。plastic food 盒饭

3.Are the resorts worth visiting?

这些景点值得参观吗？

1)resort 景点

2)be worth doing sth 值得做某事

The book is worth reading.

He felt that his life was no longer worth living.

4.There’s a good range of flights and prices aren’t too high.

那儿有很多航班，它们的价格也不高。

Monologue 1:

1.This is one year after the 9/11 attack. CNN correspondent Paula Sean is

at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Internationa l Airport Friday morning, talking about people’s weekend traveling preceding Memorial Day.

这是9·11后的一年，CNN的记者保拉·丝英星期五早晨在亚特兰大的哈慈菲尔德国际机场谈论纪念日前人们周末旅游的情况。

preceding在前面

2.We are seeing pretty healthy lines for this time of the morning, both at

check-in outside and at the ticketing counters inside as well.

早晨这个时候我们看到很多航班都有很多的人，他们都等在外面的登机口盒里面的售票处。

1) check-in登机口

2) ticketing counter售票柜台

3.It is a far different world today than it was last Memorial Day, and what

a year ago would have been perceived perhaps as an inconvenience is

now being embraced as extra security checks,.

现在与上个纪念日的情况完全不同了。一年前被视为不便的事情现在被视为额外安全检查措施了。

1）perceive 意识到，注意到，观察到

I perceived that his behavior has changed.

We had perceived how the temperature fluctuated.

2）embrace 欣然接受或采取某人的意见

embrace an offer/opportunity

4.Even if there is any irritation from the long line or extra security checks,

the passengers that we talked to so far aren’t showing it.

就算排长队和特殊安检会引起烦躁，我们到目前谈话的乘客还没有显示出来。

Monologue 2:

Ruth Roebke, a family consultant is talking about one thing that he and his family usually do during Christmas.

1.It is more blessed to give than to receive.

blessed带来欢乐的，令人愉快的

给予比获得更快乐。

2.We have each helped in a different aspects as schedules and talents

allowed.

在计划和才能允许的范围之内，我们都在不同的方面帮助了别人。

3. A volunteer committee organizes names, food and gifts; school children

blitz the community asking for canned contribution; high school students raise money and collect food; the grocery store donates a variety of

resources; one family decorates the gift boxes; home schooled children sort donations; local citizens buy presents for the children; and area

veterans pack and distribute the groceries and gifts.

一个志愿者委员会组织了姓名，食物和礼物，学生冲向社区寻找灌装食品，中学生捐款收集食物，杂货店捐出了一些物品，一个家庭装饰了礼品盒，孩子们整理了捐献品，当地居民给孩子买了些礼物，当地退伍老兵包装并且发放了杂品和礼物。

Monologue 3:

Listen to Alison, who is talking over radio about the guided walking weekends and guided walking holidays.

1.Our groups are some of the smallest available with a maximum of 8 to

10 guests.

我们的群体是所知道的最小的，最多8到10个人。

2.Having met you, our guides David will tailor a list of places to be visited

to suit you and your group, and your chosen holiday, in a relaxed

manner.

见到你们之后，我们的导游将按照你们、你们的群体和你们选择的假日来修改你们要参观的地方。