每日聽力:堅持每天聽幾分鐘,聽力水平自然就會突飛猛進



1.先聽一遍下面的音頻,然後記錄下自己沒有聽出來的單詞或者連讀,然後再聽幾遍,直到自己把能聽懂的全部都聽懂為止,剩下的就是新知識啦。

2.可以邊聽邊滑動文本,進行精聽校對,弄懂所有生詞、表達以及連讀的地方。

3.閉上眼睛,再次盲聽,感受自己的進步。

這是一個磨耳朵的過程,每天聽幾分鐘,聽力水平自然就會突飛猛進~


The Office - I need an assistant! (C0004)

A: ...like I told you before, we just don』t have the resources to hire you an assistant.

正如我之前跟你說的,我們沒有資源去給你雇一個助理

B: I understand that, but the fact is we』re understaffed.

我理解,但是事實是我們人手不夠

A: The timing is just not right. The economy is bad,and it』s too risky to take on new staff.

這個時間點不是很好,目前經濟差,並且雇一個新的員工太冒險

B: Yeah, I guess you』re right.... here』s an idea, what if we hire an intern? She would take some of the weight off my shoulders.

是的,我想你是對的,這裡有一個主意,我們雇一個實習生如何?她可以為我分擔一些

A: She?

她?

B: Yeah, you know, a recent graduate. She could give me a hand with some of these projects and we could keep our costs down.

是的,你知道的,一個剛畢業的學生,她可以在項目上給我一些幫助並且能夠降低我們的成本

A: That sounds reasonable... let me see what I can do.

聽起來有道理,讓我想想我能做什麼

A: Tony, I』d like to introduce you to your new assistant.

托尼,我向你介紹一下你的新助理

B: OK, great! Let』s meet her!

好的,太棒了,讓我們一起去見她

C: Hi, I』m Adam.

Hi,我是艾達

B: Oh... hi... I』m Tony...

Hi,我是托尼

重點辭彙

辭彙 ————————英文釋義

understaffed ——not enough people to do the job

weight off my shoulders—— remove pressure or stress

recruit——hire

overworked ——working too much

short staffed—— not enough people to do the job

overstaffed——having too many employees