英语专业四级听写026

Passage 26
Travel for Work
You can see them in every airport in the world. They are businessmen and women who have to travel for their work.
When they first applied¹ for the job, they may have thought of good food and hotels, huge expense accounts and fashionable cities. Now they have to sit in airport lounges², tired and uncomfortable in their smart clothes, listening to the loudspeaker³ announce “The flight to Tokyo, or Berlin, or New York is delayed for another two hours”. Some people say to me, “How lucky you are to be able to travel abroad in your work! You can go sightseeing without paying any money by yourself!” They think that my job is like a continual⁴ holiday. It is not.
There are advantages, of course, and I do think I am lucky, but only because I can go to places I would never visit if I was a tourist. (149 words)

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 lounges   

休息厅( lounge的名词复数 )； 客厅； （机场等的）等候室； （私宅中的）起居室

参考例句：

• There are 5 Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport lounges within our program. 我们在雅加达机场有5间机场贵宾室。
• There are 5 Bali Rai International Airport lounges within our program. 我们在巴里岛机场有5间机场贵宾室。

3 loudspeaker   

n.扬声器，扩音器

参考例句：

• The loudspeaker's stopped working.扩音器不响了。
• There is a loudspeaker in a radio.收音机里有个喇叭。

4 continual   

adj.不间断的，不停的；多次重复的，频频的

参考例句：

• I am tired of this continual rain.不停的下雨使我厌倦。
• He has continual arguments with his father.他屡次跟他父亲争论。