英語趣味課堂：她喜歡泰國 why she likes Thailand

Todd: Gloria, what are your plans for the summer?

Gloria: I'm going to Thailand for two weeks and then I'm going to England for three weeks and then

back to the US.

Todd: OK , wait, Thailand, you're going to Thailand?

Gloria: Yes.

Todd: OK, what are the plans for Thailand?

Gloria: I'm going with a friend of mine, Adrienne and we're going to go to the Bridge over the River Kwai and then we're going to go to the beaches and I hope to take a scuba diving course.

Todd: OK, so you've never been Scuba diving before.

Gloria: No, I've only been snorkeling

Todd: Oh, actually, you know what, I got trained in scuba diving in Thailand in Ko Tao.

Gloria: Ah, that's where I'm going.

Todd: Really!

Todd: Yeah

Gloria: Oh, it's really good. It's pretty cheap too.

Gloria: Yeah, yeah, I got the brochures from that.

Todd: Oh, great. So who is this Adrienne person?

Gloria: She's another teacher, that for two semesters we lived, one semester next door, and another semester she lived upstairs from me and we've just become really, really good friends and then this semester even thought we're not living near each other, somehow we still remained being friends and we love to go to flea markets and buy cheap kimono

Todd: Cheap kimonos?

Gloria: Yeah, we'll spend 500 or 1,000 yen maximum and find used antique flea market kimono.

Todd: Cool, how many have you bought so far?

Gloria: Dozens, probably

學習內(nèi)容：

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

over

We're going to go to the bridge over the River Kwai.

To go 'over' something means to pass above it. In this case the bridge is used to pass above water. Notice the following:

We live next to the airport, so planes fly over all the time.

Do you think you can climb over that fence?

got trained

I got trained in scuba diving in Thailand in Ko Tao.

When we 'get trained' to do something we learn how to do a specific task. Notice the following:

He had to get trained in first aid to work here.

You will get trained during the first week that you work here.

pretty cheap

Scuba diving is pretty cheap in Thailand.

If something is 'pretty cheap' it is not expensive. It costs a little money, but not a lot. Notice the following:

This restaurant has really good food and it's pretty cheap/

It's pretty cheap to travel here, but not as cheap as in Vietnam.

good friends

Adrienne and I are good friends.

A 'good friend' is somebody that you are emotionally close to and can trust. You know a lot about that person and she knows a lot about you. Notice the following:

They have been good friends their whole lives.

We were very good friends when we were younger.

antique

We love to go to flea markets to find used antique kimonos.

Something 'antique' was made a long time ago in the past or is not modern. We would not use this word to describe something that was made only a few years ago. Notice the following:

She goes shopping for antique jewelry with her friends.

My grandparents still have an antique telephone.

1 scuba

n.水中呼吸器

參考例句：

I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve.12歲時我開始迷上了帶水中呼吸器潛水。

While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘島度蜜月時學會了帶水肺潛水。

2 semester

n.一學期，半學年，六個月的時間

參考例句：

A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每個學生一學期可能要修四五門課程。

I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一個學期的日子難受極了。

3 semesters

n.(尤指美國的大專院校的)學期( semester的名詞復數(shù) )

參考例句：

This is a prescribed course which spreads over two semesters. 這是門兩個學期學完的必修課。 來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

There are two semesters in a year. 一年中有兩個學期。 來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

4 flea

n.跳蚤

參考例句：

I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再來打擾的話，我就要對他不客氣了。

Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特對逛跳蚤市場很感興趣。

5 yen

n. 日元;熱望

參考例句：

He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想將美元換成日幣。

He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望獨自呆在一條船上。

6 antique

adj.古時的，古代的;n.古物，古器，古玩

參考例句：

The Sunday antique market is a happy hunting ground for collectors.周日的古董市場是收藏家的淘物樂園。

I saw the vase in the window of an antique shop.我在一家古玩店的櫥窗里看見了這個花瓶。

7 emotionally

adv.感情上，情緒上，沖動地

參考例句：

a special school for emotionally disturbed children 為精神異常兒童開辦的特殊學校

A wide range of emotionally stressful events may trigger a relapse. 多種令人情緒緊張的事情都可能引起舊病復發(fā)。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

8 jewelry

n.(jewllery)(總稱)珠寶

參考例句：

The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盜偷走了我的全部珠寶。

Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠寶和花邊多數(shù)是女性用品。