英语听力精选进阶版 9234

Hayes was a very successful stock trader on the New York stock exchange. He believed that the capacity to survive and to do well is an inherent inborn¹ talent. He would argue he could be a survivor² anywhere. I spent my life in the woods, hunting and fishing. I argue on the other hand that survival is more a function of learning certain behavioural tactics to get by, and that they are environmentally specific. And I said to Hayes 'If you come up to New Hampshire and went out in the woods with me, you wouldn't have a chance.'

海斯是纽约证券交易所一位很成功的证券交易人。他相信生存的能力和生存的好的能力是一种内在的天生的才华。他认为他在哪里都能生存。我一辈子都生活在树林里，打猎和钓鱼。我则认为生存更多是学习某些行为策略来存活的能力，这些策略和特定环境有关。我对海斯说：“如果你来新罕布什尔州，和我一起去树林里，你不会有机会的。”

A friend of mine sent me sent me a catalogue that had in it a pistol, and it shot a little ball of paint about this big round, and it was used by foresters to mark trees to be cut down and so forth³. And I have one of those eureka moments. Two things come together. I called Hayes up, and said 'I've figured out how we are going to prove this argument one way or another.' So I ordered two of these guns, and a bunch of the pellets, and Hayes came up to my house. We decided⁴ we'd test these guns out because as far as we'd known, nobody had ever shot a person with them. Hayes shot first, and he missed, and I shout him right it in the butt⁵. And it hurt! So then what we did, we went out into forty acres of woods and Hayes went in one end, I went in the other, and we hunted each other. Within about 20 minutes I came around a big maple⁶ tree, and Hayes was sitting on a rock, and I walked right up behind him, and put the barrel of the gun right on his neck, and said 'alright, I don't want to shoot you, who wins?!'

我的一个朋友给我寄了一个产品样品，里面是一个手枪，它会射出这么大这么圆的彩色的小球，这种小球是森林作业者用来标记要砍的树和干其他事情。然后我就有了灵感。两件事连一起了。我给海斯打了电话说：“不管怎么做，我已经知道了证明这场争论谁对谁错的办法。”然后我订购了两把这样的手枪和一把这样的小球，海斯来到了我家。我们决定测试下这些枪，因为据我们所知，还没有人用它来射人。海斯先射的，射歪了，我直接射到他屁股上了。他感觉疼!后来我们做的事就是我们去了一个占地四十英亩的树林里，海斯去了一边，我去了另一边，我们互相猎杀对方。不到20分钟，我绕到了一颗大枫树边，海斯那时坐在一块石头上，我径直走到他后面，把枪管正架在他脖子上说：“好吧，我不想射你，谁赢了?!”

1 inborn   

adj.天生的，生来的，先天的

参考例句：

• He is a man with an inborn love of joke.他是一个生来就喜欢开玩笑的人。
• He had an inborn talent for languages.他有语言天分。

2 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

3 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

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 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

6 maple   

n.槭树，枫树，槭木

参考例句：

• Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
• The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。