雅思聽力在考試中占據(jù)著重要的地位,時常用聽力材料來磨耳朵可以不斷鞏固大腦的英語語言能力。以下是雅思聽力材料,您可以結(jié)合MP3和下方的原文及翻譯進行聽力學習。
聽力原文及翻譯
A: Hi, Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?
A:嗨,托馬斯,到目前為止,你覺得這門課怎么樣?
B: Yeah, I think it's good!
B:我覺得很好!
A: Remind me, why did you decide to study sports science? Didn't you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?
A:我突然想起來,你為什么決定學習體育科學?你上學的時候不是想成為一名職業(yè)運動員嗎?
B: Yeah, that was my goal, and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it, they thought I was brilliant.
B:是的,那是我的目標,我所有的同學都認為我會實現(xiàn)這個目標,他們認為我很優(yōu)秀。
A: That must have been a nice feeling!
A:那感覺一定很棒!
B: I thought I could win anything, there was no one who could run faster than me.
B:我以為我能贏得任何比賽,沒有人能跑得比我快。
A: Exactly! So what happened? Did your mom and dad want you to be more academic?
A:沒錯!那發(fā)生了什么?你的父母希望你更努力學習嗎?
B: Not at all. Perhaps they should have pushed me harder though.
B:一點也不。也許他們應該更努力地鞭策我。
A: What do you mean?
A:這是什么意思?
B: I think I should have practiced more.
B:我想我應該多練習。
A: What makes you say that?
A:你為什么這么說?
B: Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train.
B:嗯,我之前去肯尼亞訓練了幾個星期。
A: Really? I didn't know that!
A:真的嗎?我不知道!
B: I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids, and run with some of the top teenage athletes in the world. And I was so calm about it, I just kept thinking how fortunate I was, what a great chance this was. Everyone back home was so proud of me, but once we started competing, I very quickly realized I wasn't good enough.
B:我從眾多孩子中脫穎而出,與世界上一些頂尖的青少年運動員一起比賽。我對此非常平靜,我只是不停地想著我是多么幸運,這是一個多么好的機會。家里的每個人都為我感到驕傲,但是一旦我們開始比賽,我很快就意識到自己不夠好。
A: That must have been a huge shock.
A:那一定讓人很震驚。
B: I thought this can't be happening, I was used to winning.
B:我認為這不可能發(fā)生,我已經(jīng)習慣了獲勝。
A: I'm sorry to hear that.
A:聽到這個我很遺憾。
B: It's okay I'm over it now, and I think it's much better to do a university course, and this one has such a variety of sports related areas, it's going to be good!
B:沒關(guān)系,我現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)翻篇了,我認為上大學課程要好得多,而且這門課程有各種各樣的體育相關(guān)領(lǐng)域,也會很好的!
A: Oh, I agree. I chose it because of that.
A:我同意。我就是因此才選擇它的。
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