英语听力：2013-08-04 流言终结者 第11季 第8集 完全爆炸手册—2

 Blasts could be such a blast that it’s no wonder they’ve become a fan favorite. And this unique A to Z of glee is packing a punch. Starting, as you might expect, at the beginning where A is not for arsenal¹ or annihilation, but audit²?

 

Alright, so A is for audit. What’s that all about? Like tax audit?

 

It was more like record keeping. Because somehow within the 800 or so myths, we have done excuse to do 752 explosions.

 

Wait, 752?

 

You don’t believe. Check this out.

 

Dude, your stomach is gonna burst. It was the very first episode of Mythbusters that featured the first explosion.

 

That’s huge. That’s like three times the size of what it was. 

 

Even if the combo of pig stomach, pop rocks and cola did fall a little flat. 

 

Yeah. That’s what we call a hell of a Saturday night. 

 

Through episode four’s toilet tale. 

 

There was actually a little poop in the toilet. 

 

We have poof!

 

And five’s gas gaffe³.

 

Hello Explosion. Hello. Hello. He never answers this phone.

 

The boom was still finding its feet.

 

In fact, it wasn’t until tree cannon⁴—if this doesn’t blow up the cannon, I don’t know what will—that we finally saw some shrapnel worth celebrating.

 

Everybody all right?

 

But from there—

 

This was perfect.

 

There was no holding back. As booms, big and small, super and subtle, began to rack up, up and up. After three seasons, the boom tally⁵ had hit 90. After 5 seasons, 280. After 8 seasons, 630. And just last week, “I have 100 pounds of ANFO” it reached 752.

1 arsenal   

n.兵工厂，军械库

参考例句：

• Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
• We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。

2 audit   

v.审计；查帐；核对；旁听

参考例句：

• Each year they audit our accounts and certify them as being true and fair.他们每年对我们进行账务审核，以确保其真实无误。
• As usual,the yearly audit will take place in December.跟往常一样，年度审计将在十二月份进行。

3 gaffe   

n.（社交上令人不快的）失言，失态

参考例句：

• I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.我不清楚我犯了什么错误。
• He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.他在上周末的会议上出了洋相，狼狈不堪。

4 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。

5 tally   

n.计数器，记分，一致，测量；vt.计算，记录，使一致；vi.计算，记分，一致

参考例句：

• Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
• The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。