英语听力短剧 44入室盗窃

【Audioscript】

Episode 44: There's been a break in

Tony: Oh no...oh no...I don’t believe it!

Harry¹ (still outside): Let’s just nip into the café for breakfast...

Bindyu: Ok, sure...

Harry (entering): Hi there Tony...what’s the problem?

Tony: Just have a look!

Harry: Ermm...everything looks normal to me!

Olivia: Hi everyone...just thought I’d nip in to get a coffee before work...er...what’s going on?

Bindyu: Tony’s upset about something...

Olivia: I can’t see anything unusual...

Harry: Me neither.

Tony: What?! Are you mad? Look – all these cups are broken!

Olivia: Oh, yeah...now you mention it...

Tony: And look at the mess here!

Harry: Some broken plates on the floor..

Tony: The dustbins!

Fadi: Hi all! What’s going on? What’s wrong with the dustbins?

Tony: There’s rubbish everywhere!

Bindyu: Oh yeah....

Magda/Sarah: Hi all! What’s up?

Tony: There’s been a break in!

Harry: A burglary?

Olivia: Thieves?

Magda/Sarah: Oh no!

Olivia: Has anything been stolen?

Magda: Quick! Check!

Tony: I never leave any money in the café overnight, so that’s not a danger...

Harry: Is there anything else? Anything valuable?

Tony: Well, there were those special pieces of fish...

All: Fish?

Tony: Yeah...I had some really nice fish...

Carlos/Harry: Hey everyone! What’s going on?

All: Blimey! What?!! What’s that?!

Harry: Who the...?

Sarah: What the...?

Fadi: How did...?

All: A cat!!????

Olivia: There’s your burglar!

Tony: That explains the fish...

Johnny: Hello all! Ooohhh...hello puss! Is this the new café cat?

 

重点词汇语法讲解

Glossary³

nip into (somewhere) (v.) - to go into a place for a short time. 急忙赶往

Where did she nip off to?

她急急忙忙到哪儿去了？

A burglary (n.) - a theft in a house or shop. 入户行窃;入户盗窃罪

如：I don’t buy the burglary story.

我可不相信这种夜间遭到撬窃的说法。

A break in (n.) - a burglary (colloquial) 非法闯入

A dustbin (n.) - a big bin². (家庭用的)垃圾箱〔桶〕

These old shoes can go in the dustbin now.

这对旧鞋子现在可以进垃圾箱了。

The politicians who lost the elections will be consigned⁴ to the dustbin of history.

落选的政客就要丟进历史的垃圾箱。

A thief (n.) - Somebody who steals something. 小偷, 盗贼,贼,窃贼

The thief was trapped by the police in an old house.

小偷被警察困在一所旧房子里。

1 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

2 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

3 glossary   

n.注释词表；术语汇编

参考例句：

• The text is supplemented by an adequate glossary.正文附有一个详细的词汇表。
• For convenience,we have also provided a glossary in an appendix.为了方便，我们在附录中也提供了术语表。

4 consigned   

v.把…置于（令人不快的境地）( consign的过去式和过去分词 )；把…托付给；把…托人代售；丟弃

参考例句：

• I consigned her letter to the waste basket. 我把她的信丢进了废纸篓。
• The father consigned the child to his sister's care. 那位父亲把孩子托付给他妹妹照看。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》