A. Which candidate will be the next President?
哪个候选人会是下届总统?
B. I'm scared to think about it.
我想都不敢想。
if ever there was one
不是你还会有谁呢?「非你莫属」的意思
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听力测试:
A: Are you reading an apartment ad?
B: Yes. What does '两房两厅' mean?
A: 2 ordinary rooms and a living room plus a dining room.
B: I see.
A: Unlike the States, we describe a house or an apartment
by the number and type of the rooms.
★ ad = advertisement「广告」cf. classified
ads「(报纸上的)分类广告」
★ ordinary「一般的,普通的」
★ plus ~「加上~」It requires courage plus luck.「这需要勇气加上运气。」Two
plus three is [equals] five.「二加三等于五。」
★ unlike ~「不像~,不同于~」此语用于表示某件事跟另一件事的情形有所不同。cf. (as) compared
with ~「与~比较之下」Compared with what it was last year, it is a
great improvement.「与去年的情形比较起来,这是一大进步。」
★ describe「形容,描述」
★ 美国以bedroom「卧房」的数目来形容住宅和公寓的大小,餐厅跟客厅被视为是理所当然包括在内的。
听力挑战:
Crystal: You lost me.
Denise:
People are always gossiping about one another.
Crystal:
Yeah, but that's human nature.
Denise:
We can be so critical of one another.
Crystal:
Let's change the stomach, I mean, the subject. How about some
food?