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1、高中英语 VOA慢速英语美国万花筒第25课（文本）素材英语翻议讲解：1.behave vi.举止,行为,表现vt.使表现好例句：It was impertinent of him to behave like that. 他那种举止很不礼貌。 The mother bade the child behave himself. 妈妈叮咛孩子要守规矩。2.fictional a.虚构的,编造的,小说式的例句：He has created many lively fictional characters with his wonderful writing. 他的神笔之下曾塑造了很多栩栩如生的小说人
2、物。 3.notation n.记号法,表示法,注释例句：He made a notation on his engagement calendar. 他在约会日程上作了记载。4.respectful a.尊重人的,表示敬意的,有礼貌的例句：The older generation are respectful of tradition. 年老的一辈尊重传统。1.Then they realize they all have something in common their love of music. in common共同的,相同的例句：We have a lot in common.
3、我们有很多相同之处。 We have nothing in common, and in temperament were poles apart. 我们没有什么共性，脾气完全相反。 2.In other words, he is saying, if you run out, call eighty-six.run out被用完，耗尽例句：We have run out of head notepaper. 我们已用完了有抬头的信纸。 The hotel has run out of beer . 这饭店的啤酒已全部售完了。英语听力原文：HOST:Welcome to AMERICAN MO
4、SAIC in VOA Special English.(MUSIC)Im Doug Johnson.This week on our program we tell all about the very popular American television series Glee. And we play music from the shows many stars.But first we answer a question about the strange American use of the number eighty-six.86?We answer a question t
5、oday from China about an American term. Ella wants to know what it means to eighty-six something. She says she heard the term in a movie.Most dictionaries say the term eighty-six comes from employees in the restaurant industry. It means the restaurant has sold out of something. This can happen with
6、a really popular dish, or a special of the day. Specials are foods not on the usual list of foods served.The head cook, or chef, of a restaurant will tell the head server that the kitchen is out of chicken soup, for example. That server might say to the rest of the employees, eighty-six the chicken
7、soup.But, if a customer then orders the chicken soup a server will simply answer, Sorry, were out of the soup. It would not be considered respectful to say, Its eighty-sixed.Eighty-six has also been used in popular culture to mean dismiss or even kill. If someone has been fired from a job they might
8、 say, My boss eighty-sixed me. Sometimes on television crime dramas you might hear a police officer or a suspect say someone was eighty-sixed, meaning killed.The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants. The notation comes f
9、rom a nineteen twenties play called Burlesque. A waiter in the play tells a customer, If you need any Scotch or gin, Sir - . My number is Eighty-Six. In other words, he is saying, if you run out, call eighty-six.The same dictionary also says another former definition of eighty-six was undesirable cu
10、stomer. It notes a nineteen forty-six book about the famous American actor Lionel Barrymore. Gene Fowler wrote that Barrymore was considered an eighty-six at one drinking establishment, or bar. He was not to be served because he visited the bar often and did not behave well.GleeGlee is a new televis
11、ion series about high school students who like to sing. Music from the show has become extremely popular on CDs and on iTunes. Shirley Griffith has more.Cast members of GleeSHIRLEY GRIFFITH:Glee is about a high school singing group, also known as a glee club. It takes place at the fictional William
12、McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan created the show. They based it on their own high school glee club experiences.Mister Murphy chooses all the music for the show. His goal is to include many kinds of music from current pop songs to classic rock to show tun
13、es from Broadway musicals. The stars of Glee sing their versions of these famous songs. Here the members of the glee club sing Somebody to Love. The British rock group Queen recorded this song in the nineteen seventies.Songs performed on Glee are released on iTunes before the show is broadcast. They
14、 are released through other digital outlets and mobile carriers a week later. More than three million copies of the songs have been downloaded. And two CDs have been released. The first one, Glee: The Music, Volume 1, was released in November.Matthew Morrison plays the teacher who directs the club.
15、Jayma Mays plays a school counselor.Matthew Morrison plays Will Schuester, the teacher who directs the glee club. Here is his version of Kanye Wests rap song Gold Digger.Glee deals with the problems of high school students. The rest of the school does not respect the glee club. Sue Sylvester, the co
16、ach of the cheerleaders, plots to destroy it. Some members of the glee club are not popular because they are different from the rest of the students. But some members are football players and cheerleaders the most popular kids at school.At first they do not get along. Then they realize they all have something in common their love of music. They decide to work together to compete
