英语灵异故事-A Drowned Love 01 沉溺之爱 01

[00:20.98]A Drowned Love
[00:27.18]沉溺之爱
[00:41.72]I just bought 20 acres of nice land
[00:44.55]and we got it for very cheap.
[00:48.33]The Old man wouldn't tell us why it was so cheap;
[00:51.82]he just shook his head and said, "Please don't ask".
[00:56.34]So we took it on upon ourselves to find out.
[01:01.40]We went to the local library
[01:03.40]and looked through the old newspapers.
[01:06.74]And then we came across a story
[01:09.52]that made our skin crawl¹.
[01:12.50]It Read:
[01:13.84]"Local Teenagers found dead
[01:16.12]in woods of a 20 acre plot".
[01:20.98]The paper was dated 1942.
[01:24.15]My girlfriend and I
[01:25.43]went on to read that apparently² two girls
[01:28.17]were swimming in one of the large ponds
[01:30.98]there is on the land and one of the girls
[01:34.42](we will call her Lauren)
[01:35.96]got caught up in the net
[01:37.44]that Jamie's father
[01:39.25]was using to drag the pond of any catfish³.
[01:43.16]Well Jamie tried to get Lauren untangled from the net
[01:47.45]but it was too late.
[01:49.66]Lauren had drowned.
[01:52.05]Heartbroken that her drunken father
[01:54.42]had not heard her screaming Jamie
[01:56.82]walked into the woods leaned against a tree
[02:01.01]and shot her in the head.
[02:04.81]No one could understand why Jamie did this,
[02:09.38]but as investigations⁴ later proved,
[02:12.76]the two girls were lovers⁵.
[02:25.56]讲解
[04:01.23]语言点
[04:02.86]bought
[04:04.26]buy（买）
[04:08.60]acre英亩 = 160平方竿
[04:21.31]= 4,840平方码 / 43,560 平方英尺
[04:28.14]shake one's head  摇头
[04:31.30]shook
[04:32.21]shake
[04:39.86]find out  找出，查明
[04:45.17]The police are trying their best to find out the truth.
[04:54.31]look through  浏览，审查
[04:57.97]look through old papers
[05:01.80]come across  偶遇，不期而遇
[05:06.56]I came across my ex-boyfriend on the flight to Shanghai.
[05:17.61]It read
[05:20.77]read
[05:34.32]The sign reads "No Smoking".
[05:42.00]find somebody dead
[05:46.11]find + somebody + adj.
[05:52.77]I find myself really happy to do such a job.
[06:02.53]a 20 acre plot
[06:07.54]plot
[06:11.42]20 acre
[06:18.25]a 3-story house
[06:22.75]a 200-page book
[06:28.61]go on to do something
[06:36.58]Finishing the Chinese homework,
[06:38.66]I went on to do the math homework.
[06:46.31]go on doing something
[06:52.54]After taking a short break,
[06:54.66]we went on doing the experiment.
[07:02.80]apparently  显然地
[07:06.15]apparent  明显的
[07:11.75]get caught up  被困住，被抓住
[07:16.02]caught
[07:17.19]catch
[07:19.47]catch up  追上，吸住
[07:25.38]You should work hard
[07:26.69]if you want to catch up with the best students
[07:29.13]in your class.
[07:37.59]hear her screaming
[07:41.31]hear somebody doing
[07:46.35]hear somebody do something
[07:52.94]I heard my dad come back at 12 o'clock last night.
[08:02.96]shot somebody in the head
[08:09.86]catch somebody in the arm
[08:14.34]hit somebody on the head
[08:18.24]hit somebody in the stomach
[08:30.94]I just bought 20 acres of nice land
[08:34.07]and we got it for very cheap.
[08:37.16]The Old man wouldn't tell us why it was so cheap;
[08:41.05]he just shook his head and said, "Please don't ask".
[08:45.57]So we took it on upon ourselves to find out.
[08:50.60]We went to the local library
[08:52.67]and looked through the old newspapers.
[08:55.94]And then we came across a story
[08:58.55]that made our skin crawl.
[09:01.33]It Read:
[09:02.79]"Local Teenagers found dead
[09:05.13]in woods of a 20 acre plot".
[09:10.50]The paper was dated 1942.
[09:13.69]My girlfriend and I
[09:14.89]went on to read that apparently two girls
[09:17.63]were swimming in one of the large ponds
[09:20.39]there is on the land and one of the girls
[09:23.81](we will call her Lauren)
[09:25.45]got caught up in the net
[09:27.08]that Jamie's father
[09:28.71]was using to drag the pond of any catfish.
[09:32.63]Well Jamie tried to get Lauren untangled from the net
[09:37.18]but it was too late.
[09:39.74]Lauren had drowned.
[09:41.49]Heartbroken that her drunken father
[09:43.86]had not heard her screaming Jamie
[09:46.33]walked into the woods leaned against a tree
[09:50.09]and shot her in the head.
[09:54.17]No one could understand why Jamie did this,
[09:58.44]but as investigations later proved,
[10:01.90]the two girls were lovers.
[10:13.88]谢谢收听

1 crawl   

vi.／n.爬行，匍匐行进；缓慢(费力)地行进

参考例句：

• We learn to crawl before we learn to walk.我们学会走路之前先要学会爬。
• She slowed the car to a crawl.她把车开得很慢。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 catfish   

n.鲶鱼

参考例句：

• Huge catfish are skinned and dressed by hand.用手剥去巨鲇的皮并剖洗干净。
• We gigged for catfish off the pier.我们在码头以鱼叉叉鲶鱼。

4 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

5 lovers   

爱好者( lover的名词复数 )； 情人； 情夫； 情侣

参考例句：

• They were off-screen lovers. 他们是真实生活中的情侣。
• Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet 罗密欧和朱丽叶这一对莎士比亚笔下命运多舛的恋人