环球慢速英语 尼罗河鲈鱼(2)

Voice 2: A company called Crane¹ owns the shoe factory. One of the workers in the factory is Innocent² Rwabuky. Innocent makes the shoes a perfect fit. He places a piece of paper on the floor. The man buying the shoes stands on the paper. Innocent then makes the shape of the man's feet on the paper. Innocent will use these feet shapes to make the shoes. He takes the man into another room - the tannery. Here the fish skins are hanging up. Innocent has coloured the skins red, green, yellow and blue. In fact Innocent will create any colour you want. It is hard to choose which colour is best. And, although the shoes are made of fish skin they do not smell. Innocent says,

声音2：一家名为Crane的公司拥有这家鞋厂。因纳森特·拉瓦布奇是该工厂的一名工人。因纳森特制作的鞋子非常合脚。他先在地上放一张纸。让要买鞋的那名男性站在纸上。然后因纳森特会在纸上描绘出那名男性的脚。因纳森特将用这些脚的形状制作鞋子。他把那名男性带到另一个房间，那里是皮革厂。房间里挂着鱼皮。因纳森特将鱼皮涂成了红色、绿色、黄色和蓝色。实际上，因纳森特可以创造出任何你想要的颜色。很难选择哪种颜色是最好的。虽然鞋子是用鱼皮制作的，但是并没有味道。因纳森特表示，

Voice 3: "Do not worry, you will not end up with fishy³ feet! The shoes are good to wear. And they will be ready within⁴ twenty-four hours."

声音3：“不要担心，你的脚不会染上鱼腥味的！这些鞋子很好穿。24小时之内就能做好。”

1 crane   

v.伸长(脖子)；n.起重机，吊车

参考例句：

• We used a crane to lift the piano into the theatre.我们使用起重机将钢琴搬进剧场。
• Must we wait till the crane arrives before we start loading?非要等起重机来了才能装运吗？

2 innocent   

adj.无罪的，清白的；无害的；天真的，单纯的

参考例句：

• I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
• I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻，幼稚无知。

3 fishy   

adj. 值得怀疑的

参考例句：

• It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
• There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。

4 within   

n.内部，里头；adv.在内部，在内心里；prep.在…之内

参考例句：

• The work must be done within the given time.这个工作必须在规定的时间内完成。
• Within two weeks,she gained five pounds in weight.两周内她的体重增加了5磅。