剑桥雅思报考指南 第11期:OG03 Recording 13

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Recording¹ 13

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1. A: Right, so, you need to book some flights, is that right? B: Yes, for me and my family. We're going to Scotland for my sister's wedding.

1、A：好，那么你是需要预定航班，对吧？B：对，我和我的家人。我们要去苏格兰参加我妹妹的婚礼。

A: Oh, lovely! When's the wedding? B: It's on 21st July.

A：噢，太棒了！婚礼是什么时候？B：7月21日。

A: That should be wonderful, but I assume you'll want to fly in earlier? What about the 20th or even the 19th?

A：这听起来棒极了，但我猜你希望能再早点飞？20号或甚至19号怎么样？

B: It will have to be the 18th, I've actually got to attend a special dinner on the 19th.

B：必须在18号，（因为）事实上我19号要去参加一个特别的晚宴。

2. Welcome aboard, everyone! I hope you'll enjoy your stay with us and get a lovely glimpse of country life.

2、各位，欢迎大家的到来！我希望你们享受这段与我们同行的时光，并好好看看美丽的乡村生活。

We're going to a wonderful market on Tuesday morning, I'm sure you'll love that with all the local farm produce on sale.

我们周二早上会去一个很棒的市场。我很肯定你们都会爱上那儿的， 所有的本地农场出产的农产品都有售卖。

Then on the Wednesday you'll get to see where all that lovely produce comes from as John Smith, a local farmer, has invited us to see him at work.

在周三，你们就能看看这些惹人喜爱的农产品是从哪儿来的了，因为约翰·史密斯，一位本地农民，邀请我们去参观他工作。

On Thursday, you'll have a day to relax before we leave on Friday.

周四，你们有一天放松的时间，随后我们于周五离开。

3. A: So, what topic are we going to choose for our project? It's due in three weeks.

3、A：那么，我们的项目该选什么课题？三周后就要交了。

B: I know, it's not a lot of time. I was going to suggest we do one on the environment.

B：我明白，时间不多了。我建议我们做环境类。

A: But that's so broad a topic. We should try to narrow it down. What about recycling?

A：但这个课题也太广了。我们应该把范围缩小些。回收课题怎么样？

B: That's a good idea, there's a lot of information and I think the other groups are concentrating on pollution, so this would be nice and different.

B：这个主意不错，信息很多，而且我认为其他小组主要集中于污染课题，所以这个课题很好，有新意。

4. We encountered quite a few problems during our research. Firstly, the weather was horrendous² and made our work conditions very difficult indeed .

4、我们在研究过程中遇到了好些问题。首先，天气糟透了，使得我们的工作条件变得非常艰苦。

Luckily, we had the right equipment to deal with that, and could carry on regardless.

幸运的是，我们有合适的设备来应对这一切，能排除万难继续工作。

Unfortunately though, in spite³ of having so many volunteers, we did run out of funds halfway⁴ through the project. So, we were forced to postpone⁵ the second half of our trip.

但不幸的是，尽管我们有很多志愿者，我们在项目中途资金就用完了。所以我们被迫将另一半考察之旅延后。

1 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

2 horrendous   

adj.可怕的，令人惊惧的

参考例句：

• He described it as the most horrendous experience of his life.他形容这是自己一生中最可怕的经历。
• The mining industry in China has a horrendous safety record.中国的煤矿工业具有令人不安的安全记录。

3 spite   

n.（用于短语）虽然，不顾，尽管

参考例句：

• He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高，但思想观念却很入时。
• In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气，说的话还是有节制的。

4 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

5 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。