英语灵异故事-The Decorator 01 神秘的“装修工” 01

[00:18.51]The Decorator
[00:24.11]神秘的"装修工"
[00:33.22]I live in a house alone.
[00:35.41]I have lived in the same house for 5 years.
[00:38.81]Nothing out of the ordinary
[00:40.81]has ever happened prior¹ to the last 2 weeks.
[00:44.67]It started on a Friday when I came home from work.
[00:48.85]It was a rather long workweek,
[00:51.34]we were very busy and I was tired
[00:53.89]and just wanted to get home
[00:55.76]and watch TV for a while just to relax.
[00:58.99]I just wanted to have a relaxing weekend.
[01:02.05]I got home at around 6:15pm.
[01:05.25]I opened my front door
[01:06.98]only to discover the first of many unusual things.
[01:10.89]When I walk into my house
[01:12.75]there is a small hallway² about 5 feet
[01:15.50]with a throw down carpet for wet or dirty shoes.
[01:20.20]On the left wall is a picture
[01:21.95]that I bought 10 years ago of the Empire State Building;
[01:25.83]on the right wall there is a mirror.
[01:28.81]I opened the door to discover
[01:30.89]that the throw down carpet was perfectly³ straight
[01:34.45]but completely⁴ up side down!
[01:37.15]Also, the picture and the mirror
[01:39.12]were opposite of where they were supposed to be.
[01:42.93]At first, I thought maybe somehow one of my friends
[01:46.19]got a copy of my house keys
[01:48.20]and went inside to play a little joke on me.
[01:51.49]I looked at the picture of the Empire State Building
[01:54.34]and it was perfectly straight the same went for the mirror.
[01:58.46]I knew without a doubt that one of my friends
[02:01.39]could not have done that...
[02:03.47]there is no way that things
[02:04.85]like that would be exact or perfect!
[02:09.17]Next, I walked into the living room,
[02:12.09]now thinking maybe some weird⁵ burglar⁶ got into my house
[02:15.94]and stole things from me and was playing a sick joke.
[02:30.84]讲解
[04:30.04]I live in a house alone.
[04:32.22]I have lived in the same house for 5 years.
[04:39.71]Nothing out of the ordinary
[04:41.44]has ever happened prior to the last 2 weeks.
[04:52.02]It started on a Friday when I came home from work.
[04:59.96]It was a rather long workweek,
[05:02.20]we were very busy and I was tired
[05:05.04]and just wanted to get home
[05:06.87]and watch TV for a while just to relax.
[05:18.74]I just wanted to have a relaxing weekend.
[05:25.73]I got home at around 6:15pm.
[05:29.28]I opened my front door
[05:30.72]only to discover the first of many unusual things.
[05:46.30]When I walk into my house
[05:47.74]there is a small hallway about 5 feet
[05:50.49]with a throw down carpet for wet or dirty shoes.
[06:03.38]On the left wall is a picture
[06:05.15]that I bought 10 years ago of the Empire State Building;
[06:09.41]on the right wall there is a mirror.
[06:21.52]I opened the door to discover
[06:23.49]that the throw down carpet was perfectly straight
[06:27.05]but completely up side down!
[06:37.51]Also, the picture and the mirror
[06:39.44]were opposite of where they were supposed to be.
[06:47.96]At first, I thought maybe somehow one of my friends
[06:51.23]got a copy of my house keys
[06:53.22]and went inside to play a little joke on me.
[07:04.16]I looked at the picture of the Empire State Building
[07:07.11]and it was perfectly straight the same went for the mirror.
[07:20.70]I knew without a doubt that one of my friends
[07:23.68]could not have done that...
[07:25.92]there is no way that things like that
[07:28.40]would be exact or perfect!
[07:40.72]Next, I walked into the living room,
[07:43.59]now thinking maybe some weird burglar got into my house
[07:47.44]and stole things from me and was playing a sick joke.
[08:12.97]语言点
[08:14.43]prior to
[08:15.90]before  在…以前
[08:19.67]The contract⁷ will be signed prior to the ceremony.
[08:28.92]prior
[08:34.53]This task is prior to all others.
[08:41.25]only to
[08:53.63]I hurried to the post office only to find it closed.
[09:01.62]be supposed to do
[09:07.98]You're not supposed to take these books out of the library.
[09:12.36]play joke on sb.
[09:17.22]joke
[09:20.77]joke with sb.
[09:23.37]I never joke with him.
[09:34.37]You're joking!
[09:36.37]You're kidding.
[09:38.84]without a doubt  毫无疑问地
[09:44.13]without (a) doubt / beyond (a) doubt / beyond all doubt
[09:50.47]I believe beyond all doubt that he will win.
[10:02.37]谢谢收听

1 prior   

adj.更重要的，较早的，在先的；adv.居先；n.小修道院院长；大修道院副院长

参考例句：

• The duty to protect my sister is prior to all others.保护我的妹妹是我最重要的责任。
• I took up one-year prior course in German in this college.我在这所大学读了一年的德语预科。

2 hallway   

n.门厅；走廊

参考例句：

• The restroom is at the end of the hallway to the right.洗手间在走廊尽头右转的地方。
• The two rooms connect by a hallway.这两个房间有过道相连。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 completely   

adv.完全地，十分地，全然

参考例句：

• She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
• I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。

5 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

6 burglar   

n.窃贼，破门盗窃者

参考例句：

• The policeman took the burglar by surprise as he opened the window.当夜盗开窗时，警察冷不防地捉住了他。
• The man glanced the burglar climbing out of the window.那人瞥见小偷从窗户爬出来。

7 contract   

n.合同，契约，婚约；v.使缩短，感染，订约

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• I'm under contract to teach here for one year.我按照聘约要在这里教一年书。