北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 23 workshop4

[00:00.00]Not me and the Kaiser.
[00:01.94]I think maybe the Kaiser wanted a war.
[00:04.02]I don't see that.
[00:05.41]The Kaiser's got everything he needs.
[00:07.31]Well, he's never had a war before.
[00:09.42]Every full-grown emperor needs one war
[00:11.22]to make him famous.Why, that's history.
[00:14.09]Yeah, generals too. They need war.
[00:16.83]And manufacturers¹. They get rich.
[00:19.41]War's like a fever.
[00:21.28]Nobody wants it in particular.
[00:23.13]And then all at once,here it is.
[00:26.21]We didn't want it.
[00:27.64]The English didn't want it.
[00:28.86]And here we are fighting.
[00:30.71]I'll tell you how it should all be done.
[00:32.96]Whenever there's a big war comin' on,
[00:34.95]you should rope off a big field
[00:36.55]and sell tickets.
[00:37.86]Yeah, and, and, on the big day,
[00:40.40]you should take all the kings
[00:41.94]and their cabinets² and their generals,
[00:44.07]put them in the centre dressed
[00:45.35]in their underpants and let 'me fight it out
[00:47.46]with clubs.The best country wins.
[00:50.50]Exercise 3 Listen to Part 2 again.
[00:55.13]Who do they think starts wars?
[00:57.92]Tick the correct boxes.
[00:58.77]

1 manufacturers   

制造商，制造厂( manufacturer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad. 一些国家的制造商向国外倾销过剩产品。
• Colour TV has been more aggressively promoted as more manufacturers have joined the competition. 由于更多的厂商参与竞争，推销彩色电视机的宣传更为激烈了。

2 cabinets   

n.内阁( cabinet的名词复数 )；橱；（有特殊用途的）小房间；展览艺术品的小陈列室

参考例句：

• Along each wall stretched uniform green metal filing cabinets. 每面墙边都一溜摆着相同的绿色金属档案柜。 来自辞典例句
• The cabinets display seventeenth-century blue-and-white porcelain. 展柜中陈列着17世纪的青花瓷。 来自辞典例句