【一起听英语】烤鸡（在线收听）

很多喜欢吃烤鸡，他们喜欢吃烤鸡的同时加入烤土豆和蔬菜还有各种调料，听着就留口水了......

Jennifer: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm

Jennifer and with me today is Rob.

Rob: Hello there.

Jennifer: Now, Rob, are you a fan of roast chicken?

Rob: Definitely. There’s nothing better than a lovely roast chicken on a Sunday,

with all the trimmings, of course!

Jennifer: Indeed. The trimmings are the foods that accompany the chicken. Here in

the UK, people traditionally eat roast potatoes and vegetables with their

chicken, as well as stuffing.

Rob: Stuffing is a mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs which is stuffed, or

pushed, inside the roast chicken. And it is delicious!

Jennifer: Well, you might be surprised to learn that today’s story is about stuffing

roast chickens with something rather different… But first, a quiz question,

I think!

Rob: It wouldn’t be 6 Minute English without a quiz question, would it?

Jennifer: Here goes. The chicken is thought to be the closest living relative to an

extinct species – that’s a species which no longer exists, or has died out.

Now, which species is it?

a) The dodo

b) The tyrannosaurus rex

c) The pterodactyl

Rob: Well I’m going to say the dodo, because it looks a bit like a chicken.

Jennifer: As usual, we’ll find out if you’re right at the end of the programme. Let’s

return to our story now, which is all about a failed attempt at drug

smuggling in Nigeria.

Rob: Hang on! I thought you said today’s programme was about stuffing roast

chickens?

Jennifer: It is. Our story is about a Nigerian man, living in Brazil, who was

struggling to earn a decent living.

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Rob: So, in other words, he didn’t earn a lot of money.

Jennifer: The man had been working as a mechanic in Brazil, but decided he could

earn more money if he smuggled drugs to sell back in his native country

of Nigeria.

Rob: If you smuggle goods in or out of a country, you bring them in without

the authorities’ knowledge. Drug smuggling is, of course, illegal.

Jennifer: Let’s listen to the first part of a report by BBC correspondent Leana Hosea.

How did the mechanic try to smuggle drugs into Nigeria?

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A Nigerian mechanic has been caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Lagos airport,

Nigeria, attempting to smuggle $150,000 worth of cocaine in roast chickens.

Investigators say they found over 2.5kg of the unusual stuffing, wrapped up in tin foil,

egg-shaped packages.

Rob: So that’s where the roast chickens come in. The mechanic tried to

conceal, or hide, the cocaine inside the chickens.

Jennifer: He was very inventive, or creative, as he hid the drugs in egg-shaped

packages.

Rob: It’s certainly risky, though. So why did he try to bring $150,000 worth of

drugs into Nigeria?

Jennifer: Well, it seems he had a plan for the money. Here’s the second part of

Leana Hosea’s report: listen out for what he planned to do with the money.

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They called it a remarkable seizure, saying they never expected to find thousands of

dollars’ worth of drugs in roast chickens. The suspect had flown in from Brazil, where he

had been allegedly struggling to make a decent living for years. A spokesman for the

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says this was the suspect's retirement plan,

and he had been hoping to start a business with the drug sales.

Rob: The money was part of the man’s retirement plan. A retirement plan is

something you arrange to do when you retire, or stop working. It often

involves saving lots of money.

Jennifer: He wanted to start a business, but the drugs were seized, or taken, by

authorities before he got the chance.

Rob: We also heard in the report that the seizure of the drugs was remarkable,

or unusual, because the authorities didn’t expect so many drugs to be

hidden.

Jennifer: Smugglers are using increasingly imaginative ways to conceal their drugs.

Rob: Recently the Nigerian authorities have found drugs hidden in the lining of

suitcases, in wigs and even in a doctor’s stethoscope! 

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Jennifer: Let’s listen to the final part of the report now. What are the Nigerian

authorities using to help spot the drug carriers?

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Nigeria is a major transit point for drugs, but the authorities have made efforts to

improve security after a Nigerian man was discovered on a plane to Detroit, attempting

to explode a bomb in his underpants three years ago. The Nigerian authorities say

airport body scanners have helped identify more than one hundred drug carriers last

year.

Rob: The authorities have used body scanners to help spot the drug

smugglers. Body scanners are machines which can detect whether you are

carrying any illegal substances.

Jennifer: It’s really an ongoing battle, but they are trying to improve security,

particularly at airports.

Rob: Thankfully the drugs hidden inside the chickens did not make it into the

country this time.

Jennifer: Indeed. Now, speaking of chickens, we need to wrap up the quiz before

the end of the programme. The chicken is the closest relative to an extinct

species. Is it:

a) The dodo

b) The Tyrannosaurus Rex

c) The Pterodactyl

Rob: I said the dodo – am I right?

Jennifer: You were actually wrong I’m afraid, but good reasoning! The chicken is

actually the closest living relative of the gigantic and terrifying dinosaur,

the tyrannosaurus rex!

Rob: I’ll never look at a chicken, or eat a chicken, in the same way again!

Jennifer: We’ve just got time to recap some of the vocabulary we’ve heard in

today’s programme.

Rob: The words we heard were:

stuffing

extinct

smuggle

conceal

inventive

retirement plan

seized

remarkable

Jennifer: Join us again for more 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com. Bye

for now!