第20课:勇敢的 - 16
【迷你小对话1】
A: I’m so proud of Jodi Abbott! She was skydiving on her 70th birthday.
B: Wow! It takes a lot of guts to jump out of a plane, at any age.
A: 我真为Jodi Abbott感到骄傲!她在70岁生日那天做了特技跳伞。
B: 真棒!不管什么年纪,要跳下飞机都需要很大的勇气。
【迷你小对话2】
A: I would have been too nervous to finish speaking after the audience expressed their disgust for my topic.
B: Me too, but John was as cool as a cucumber, and kept speaking.
A: 要是观众对我的话题表现出反感的话,我会紧张得讲不下去。
B: 我也是,但John镇静得很,他还能讲下去。
【语言点精讲】
skydiving: 特技跳伞。
take a lot of guts: 很有勇气,很哟胆量。guts,内脏,比喻人的内在本质性格特征。
express: 表示,表现出。
disgust: 憎恶;愤慨;反感。
as cool as a cucumber: 形容人是极其镇定的,非常冷静的,情绪不会受到周围环境的影响。cucumber,黄瓜。黄瓜在西方通常是冷吃的蔬菜,并且由于它的颜色是冷色调的绿色,因此cucumber被用来形容冷酷、镇定的性格。
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