托福口语练习 建设新的体育馆的讨论

The university is considering building a new athletic¹ stadium².

学校正在考虑盖一座新的体育馆。

Read the article in the student newspaper.

请阅读学生报纸上的这篇文章。

You will have 45 seconds to read the article. Begin reading now.

你将有45秒的时间阅读文章。现在开始计时。

Now listen to two students discussing the article.

两个学生正在讨论这篇文章，请听他们的对话。

So what do you think of the university's new plan?

你觉得学校的这项新计划怎么样？

Oh, I don't know. I don't think it's gonna work.

谁知道呢，我觉得这项计划行不通。

No?

行不通？

I mean, I can't imagine top students being too thrilled³ about some of the conditions on this campus⁴.

我可无法想象优等生们对学校的某些状况过于激动的样子。

What do you mean?

什么意思？

Like, the science laboratory⁵ having such old outdated⁶ equipment

你看，理科实验室里的器材又旧又破，

and the library needing more books, and the student center being so small.

图书馆里还缺很多书，大学生活动中心也太小了。

I think that the 2 million could be spent in better places if the university is really serious about achieving its goal.

我觉得大可以把这两百万花在更有意义的地方，如果学校是真的想要实现目标的话。

OK. But what about the other reason for building the stadium?

好吧，那建体育馆的另一个原因怎么样呢？

I mean right now we have so little contact with the town.

毕竟我们现在和城里的接触太少了。

Yeah, but this won't help relations.

没错，但是这项计划对改善关系一点帮助也没有。

Look, people from town hardly ever come to games because our teams always lose.

城里的人基本上不会来看比赛的，因为我们的队总是输。

And they're not suddenly going to improve over night.

而这些队的实力也不会一夜之间就得到提升。

Besides, adding seats won't make a difference.

另外，多加些座位也不会有什么区别的。

I mean, if people from town didn't come before,

我的意思是，如果城里的人之前就没来过这里，

they won't come now just because the place is bigger.

他们现在也不会仅仅因为场馆变大了就过来的。

1 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

2 stadium   

n.露天大型运动场

参考例句：

• The new football stadium can hold eighty thousand people.新的足球场可以容纳八万人。
• The stadium is being used for a match.那个露天运动场正在进行一场比赛。

3 thrilled   

adj.非常兴奋的；极为激动的vt.“thrill”的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He was thrilled at the prospect of seeing them again. 他一想到將要再次见到他们便欣喜若狂。
• They were thrilled to discover a perfectly preserved specimen of Roman pottery. 他们因发现了一件保存完好的罗马时代陶器而欣喜若狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 campus   

n.大学校园，学校校园；大学　

参考例句：

• They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
• The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。

5 laboratory   

n.实验室，化验室

参考例句：

• She has donated money to establish a laboratory.她捐款成立了一个实验室。
• Our laboratory equipment isn't perfect,but we must make do.实验室设备是不够理想，但我们只好因陋就简。

6 outdated   

adj.旧式的，落伍的，过时的；v.使过时

参考例句：

• That list of addresses is outdated,many have changed.那个通讯录已经没用了，许多地址已经改了。
• Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。