我也来学习英语吧。。。ABC+VOA听力笔记每天更新

大灰兔和小白狼

这个贴子整得不赖，楼主挺勤学的嘛！

dorin

1. The mind-numbing equation takes into account the number of women aged 24 to 34, living in his home city of London, and who are single, meaning his chances of meeting his dream woman on a night out are slim.
mind-numbing: extremely boring and uninspiring 极其沉闷的，枯燥的

2. His quirkystudy uses a famous maths formula called The Drake Equation, which wasfirst used to estimate the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
这个难道就是ET的缩写？

3.  I've been to many countries and if you go to many places in Europe, even if you don't speak the language you can somehow get a gist of what's going on.
猜出个大概

4. I thought the panda was going to be a real cliché.
陈词滥调、老生常谈

5. they've got a real physical presence to them as well.
眼前的这种震慑感

6. the most amazing place they filmed in was the Tibetan plateau.
清藏高原

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-18 23:21 编辑 ]

dorin

1. Sleeping in on Saturday after a few weeks of too little shuteye may feel refreshing, but it can give a false sense of security.
睡懒觉

2. Scientists teased apart the effects of short- and long-term sleep loss and found...
tease apart: to pull something gently apart into separate pieces 梳理

3. Don't think you can just bank up your sleep on the weekend, because it doesn't work that way.
bank up: to heap or mound up something to guard against something 堆积

Ronny

1月14日中的to be addressed是不是着重解答的意思，中心意思在‘着重’，而不是‘解答’？
1月15日中的mark-up应该是利润的意思吧？
1月16日中的pronounced zigzag pattern完整的是不是该说‘显著的之字型’？

好多单词、短语都没有见过，谢谢DORIN的学习贴~

dorin

1. their baby faces belie their experience
娃娃脸与他们的经验很不称。

2. The heavy lifting MH53s and the smaller Seahawks barely touch down on the deck of the massive warship before they're off again.
touch down 下降，着陆。
warship 军舰

3. And when the earthquake survivors rush at the choppers it's not onlythe crew's safety that's in danger but the Haitians themselves.
向直升机冲去

4. Applying make-up ranked as the sixth-biggest breach of rail etiquette, worse than being drunken, which at number 9 just edged out bringing strollers onto crowded trains.
v. 取代，挤掉，以微弱之差击败

5. Don't worry, they're just horsing around. They won't hurt each other.
"to horse around" means "to play or joke with someone".

6. You'll really be pushing your luck if you miss class again.
"To push your luck" means to take a chance when you've already done something risky.意即得寸进尺
sometimes, if someone keeps asking you for favors, you might tell them "don't push your luck!"

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-20 19:52 编辑 ]

iami

belie: be a lie,说谎，掩盖真相，从字面上我是这么理解的，不查字典的话。
push someones luck:  i just don want to push my luck. 常用的口头语
sleep in: 起床迟了，通常解释迟到
physical presence: 这个不知道中文对应的单词，知道英文的想要说的话
horsing around: kidding me, teasing me, rip me off都是差不多的意思

dorin

1. and of course the apple falling from the tree does indeed hark back to the story of Adam and Eve。
使想起

2. The 27-year-old second in line to the throne flew out of Wellington Tuesday morning bound for Sydney for a three-day unofficial visit to Australia.
排第二
驶往

3. William opened a new Supreme Court Building in Wellington on Monday on behalf of the Queen
最高法院

4. 拇指： thumb
食指：index finger, pointer finger, or forefinger
中指：middle finger or long finger
无名指：ring finger, nameless finger, fourth finger
小指：little finger or pinky finger

5. 今天看美国片的时候，发现他们把警车也叫 black and white...
There is a black and white following us. 有辆警车跟着我们。
为什么警车叫 Black and white? 因为……：
It's a LAPD black and white. 是洛杉矶警察局的警车（LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department）

Black and blue 遍体鳞伤的 (Badly bruised)
例句：
That fall down the stairs left me black and blue all over. 那天从楼梯上滚下来弄得我遍体鳞伤。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-21 06:16 编辑 ]

小川妈

其实我觉得LZ的英文过于生僻吧，要想提高英文，我觉得最好的办法是读杂志，比如WOMAN WEEKLY，上面的单词既时尚又平时，会经常用到。我喜欢读杂志。

bulaohu

这个难道就是ET的缩写？

yes

dorin

1. The United Nations says rescuers in Haiti are winding down searches for survivors.
wind down (人工作/激动后)放松下来，(指钟表)慢下来

2. Should MPs in Victoria swear an allegiance to the Queen, or the people? 发誓效忠
swear an oath    vi. 宣誓(发誓)

3. The recommendation hasn't been acted upon.
按照，对 ... 起作用
His words greatly acted upon us.
他的话对我们深有影响

4, He says Victoria wouldn't be breaking new ground.
开垦处女地,开辟新天地
Her research is breaking new ground in biochemistry.
她的研究正在开辟生物化学的新开地。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-24 16:06 编辑 ]

jasonliu234

加油 顶一下

dorin

1. they are joining a class action in Britain.  集体诉讼

2.Food authority advises women to take iodine supplements
大家注意了，这个是针对孕妇和哺乳妈妈说的，一定要补碘

3. it's the one that took the moon TV of Armstrong walking on the moon for Apollo 11 and a very, very important dish for Australia, let alone the world.
更别提

4. A Tasmanian artist has gone to great lengths to paint his entry for the nation's best known portrait prize.
竭尽全力

5. Avery made his name defending criminals including the Port Arthur gunman, Martin Bryant, but ended up in jail himself after he was discovered stealing from his clients and former law firm.
成名
律师事务所

6. That boy puff up himself in front of the girls.
那男孩在女孩面前吹捧自已。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-24 22:06 编辑 ]

tld128

原帖由 steveking 于 2009-12-26 13:56 发表
我在rapidshare.com 网上下载 John Grisham 的 The Firm 的朗读版，英语很简单，读的很棒

请问如何下载啊？

lycans

原帖由 tld128 于 2010-1-24 20:10 发表



请问如何下载啊？

you could search the title in http://rapidlibrary.com/

lycans

原帖由 dorin 于 2010-1-24 19:51 发表
1. they are joining a class action in Britain.  共同起诉

2.Food authority advises women to take iodine supplements
大家注意了，这个是针对孕妇和哺乳妈妈说的，一定要补碘

class action 翻译为 “集体诉讼" 似乎更好一些。
LZ 加油。

dorin

1. But, controversially, bulk offers of cheap alcohol in supermarkets - widely regarded as one of the main sources of Britain's problems with under-age and excessive drinking - will not be affected.
未达到法定年龄的

2. publicans will have to ensure free tap water is made available to revellers.
酒馆老板
摆设酒宴者，饮酒狂欢者

3. She is not out there making a spectacle of herself which could sully her image。
making a spectacle of herself:出洋相
sully：to mar the purity or luster of; defile（玷污，有损于）

4。 You can get over-saturation and we don't want to see their real and sometimes stained and depressed sides of their lives.
over-saturation：过度饱和，可理解为审美疲劳

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-25 00:01 编辑 ]

dorin

1. The Opposition says the minister has gone public because he was tipped off the Coalition was about to expose the blunder.
事先给警告(或暗示), 告密

2. He says an interview was doctored to make him look like a terrorist.
doctor 做动词有“医治，篡改，对 ... 做手脚”的意思。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-26 18:15 编辑 ]

dorin

1. A secretive Australia-based charity dedicated to hunting down sex traffickers has had a breakthrough in Cambodia.
捕获，贩子

2. ...But their work tracking down south-east Asian paedophile rings and freeing young girls can get equally hazardous.
track down 追捕
恋童癖
危险的

3. One of the Gray Man's members stumbled on an illegal brothel while on a fact-finding mission in Cambodia.
偶然发现
实情调查

4. they just barely scrape by because they're not given much money or food.
勉强凑合过

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-27 17:05 编辑 ]

dorin

1. strike an accord
有共鸣

2.underdog
地位低一等的，牺牲者，受害者，输家

3. young people would be less likely to get hold of and unlock a censored version.
抓住，掌握
被审查过的

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-1-28 12:58 编辑 ]

dorin

1. He doesn't think Australians will be lining up to dine on toad.
排队

2. poison n. 毒药，败坏道德之事，毒害 vt. 毒害，摧毁，中毒 adj. 有毒的
poisonous  adj. 有毒的，恶意的
toxins  毒素
toxic  adj. 有毒的  n. 有毒物质
venom n. 毒液，恶意

dorin

1. you look out over the lakes and over the moat, and you see the swans swimming。
护城河。对于常玩游戏的我来说，一定要记住这个词。

2. suspension bridge 吊桥

3. 滑冰场： skating rink， ice rink;

4. have a go 尝试做某事

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-1 14:46 编辑 ]

dorin

portfolio:
基本意思：公文包或文件夹
引申意思：
1： The Prime Minister offered her the foreign affairs portfolio.
Government 的部长职位。
2：代表作选辑
3.作为一种金融投资词汇，它还可以表示有价证券一览表或综合投资一览表.
A:How is your pension?   
B: Well my pension is quite secure because the fund has a mixed portfolio, so it should be low risk.
Mixed portfolio 也就是混合的，综合的投资方案。

2. A: Is Trevor off sick again?
B: Yes, he’s got man flu.
讽刺性的短语 man flu ‘男士小流感’。

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-1 15:39 编辑 ]

dorin

1. I don't think you should get too hung up about 。。。
To get hung up on something.  太过于计较某事。

2. so it’s getting your message across that’s the important thing, not the accent in which you do it.
To get your message across.  表达出你的意见来

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-1 16:46 编辑 ]

dorin

1. Andy Murray, had the weight of Britain on his shoulders at last night's Australian Open tennis final but he didn't come close to beating Roger Federer.
肩负着整个英国的期望

2. But Andy Murray missed his chances in the first set, was clearly outplayed in the second and missed five set points in the concluding tie break.
被打败

3. Once regarded as sincere and earnest, John Edwards has been outed as a liar who cheated on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth with Rielle Hunter, the woman employed to trail around after him with a video camera.
真诚的。
饱受癌症摧残的

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-3 15:32 编辑 ]

dorin

1.The United States is moving a step closer to ditching its ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military.

Bill Clinton tried to lift the ban on gays in the military in his first term
都是取消禁令的意思

2.I cannot escape being trouble by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
同胞

3. the company was placed in receivership.
破产事物职务(处), 破产管理

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-3 16:59 编辑 ]

dorin

1. More than 1,000 north Queenslanders contracted dengue fever last year, setting a new record.
登革热
创了新纪录。

2. A new range of anti-malarial drugs could result from Australianresearch on how the malaria parasite is able to invade human cells.
疟疾寄生虫

3. Professor Cowman believes plasmepsin V is the Achilles heel of malaria.
致命弱点

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-4 15:08 编辑 ]

dorin

1. The size of the problem we have caused our customers is unprecedented.
前所未有的

2. There are claims that teachers are being pressured to change the way they teach because of the national tests that underpin the Federal Government's My Schools website.
v. 从下头支持，支撑，支持

3.The International Olympic Committee is trying to ban the flag from the Olympic Village because it's considered too commercial but the Australian team isn't budging.
IOC 国际奥委会
budge 妥协

4. After days of media speculation he'd fathered a child out of wedlock, the President has been forced to admit he's having an affair.
结婚状态

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-5 10:41 编辑 ]

dorin

1. Jacob Zuma has taken leave, no doubt hoping the scandal will blow over.
平息

2.Confucius 孔子

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-5 12:11 编辑 ]

JATZ

真有毅力，加油

dorin

1. black Saturday一周年，说到一个孩子Jess：
We've been all medicated except for Jess. But I think Jess has kept the Rescue Remedy company in business for most of this year.

2. They're just doing somersaults in my stomach
翻筋斗

3. The centuries-old custom has been outlawed in Australia since the 1990s.
v. 使 ... 失去法律保护，将 ... 逐出社会，宣告非法

4. it stopped the discharge of nasal fluids one day sooner than usual.
鼻涕

[ 本帖最后由 dorin 于 2010-2-6 17:08 编辑 ]