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情景英语:中级美语对话(第98讲)

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98. Speaking from the Grave p.171

  Two students, Beth and Carl, are talking about the red-haired mummies.

  B: Can you imagine what it was like 4,000 years ago?

  C: That's hard to imagine. But if the mummies could speak, they could certainly tell us a great deal.

  B: Well, that, of course, is impossible. But scientists can tell a lot from the things the explorers found.

  C: I know. For example, they think the 4000-year-old mummies were Celts.

  B: Who were the Celts?

  C: They were ancient European people who settled in Britain even before the Romans existed.

  B: Wow! That's amazing!

  C: So you see, although mummies don't really speak, they are “speaking” from their graves.

  B: Stop it! you're giving me the creeps!

  give sb the creeps = give sb goosebunps 鸡皮疙瘩

  ghost story

  tomb 冢(有碑) grave 坟地,墓穴 put sb into a tomb grave adj.= serious grave problem

  juvenile delinquency 青少年犯罪 juvenile delinquent 不良少年

  Can you tell me what it is like living in Shanghai?

  imagine + V-ing imaginative 想象的 He has spoiled his image. spoiled his reputation

  If I had money, I'd buy a car.

  Nothing doing it = No way

  Sean 人名(读音 Shawn)

  shut up (very impolite) 应用:Stop it.