许国璋英语听力第一册 Lesson 20

　　Lessen¹ 20
Word list:
cock
crow
midnight
landload
sly²
greedy
famrhand
eat
naturally
hate
strange
habit
dawn
time
every time
word
lazy bones
deep
hatred³
to have a deep hatred for
both
both…and…
steal
courtyard
just
so
trick
angry
decide
cry
stop
thief
immediately
run
knock
beat
beating
to give sb.a good beating
no longer
Words to the dialogue:
feel
cold
clinic
fever
medicine
feel
tempreture
headache
worry
catch
to catch up
Text:The cock crew at midnight
When Gaoyubao was a child,he worked for a landload.This landload was especially sly and greedy. He made the farmhands work very hard and gave them a little to eat. Naturally,they hated him. Now this landload had a cock. The cock had strange habit,it did not crow at dawn, but midnight. Everytime it began to crow,the landload was shout:Get up you lazy bone!get up and go to work.So the farmhands had a deep hatred for both the landload and his cock..Once, at midnight gaoyubao saw the landload steal into the courtyard. There, the man began to crow, just like a cock!So that was his trick!When Gaoyubao told the other farmhands what he had seen, they were very angry,and decided⁴ to teach the landload a lessen. So the next night,as soon as the landload stole into the courtyard, Gaoyubao cried out: Stop thief! stop thief! Immidiately, all the farmhands run out. They knocked the “thief” down and gave him a good beating. After that, the cock no longer crew at midnight.
Dialogue:
A：Why insn＇t Liming⁵ here today?Is he ill?
B：Yes,he is. He has a cold.
A：Did he go to see the doctor?
B：Yes, he went to the clinic this morning. The doctor said he had a fever and give him some medicine.
A：How does he feel now?
B：He feels much better. His temperature is down. But he still has a headache.
A：Tell him not to worry about his studies. we＇ll help him to catch up when he＇s weel.

1 lessen   

vt.减少，减轻；缩小

参考例句：

• Regular exercise can help to lessen the pain.经常运动有助于减轻痛感。
• They've made great effort to lessen the noise of planes.他们尽力减小飞机的噪音。

2 sly   

adj.狡猾的，偷偷摸摸的

参考例句：

• You can't trust him,he's a sly old fox.你不能相信他，他是一只狡猾的老狐狸。
• I was ready to sly out the alley door.我准备从那边小门溜出去。

3 hatred   

n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨

参考例句：

• He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
• The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 liming   

n.加石灰，撒石灰

参考例句：

• Liming is as good a player as his brother. 李明像他哥哥一样是个出色的运动员。 来自互联网
• Liming often not without do not speak the ground says. 罗立明经常不无不调侃地说。 来自互联网