开口英语

Can you believe it, bob?
Charlie&`&s first big-girl bed.
She&`&s not a baby anymore.
Charlie, do you like your new bed?
No.
Oh, it seems like just yesterday
I was complaining about giving up this room.
Aw, you miss your old room, honey?
Are you kidding?
There&`&s two floors between me and the boys now.
This room is dead to me.
Hey, now that charlie&`&s got her own bed,
I can have a sleepover, right?
Okay, how did charlie&`&s new bed.
Turn into you getting a sleepover?
Let me walk you through it.
Oh, I love it when he walks us through stuff.

A Mystery Man 神秘男子

Ed Kane was a teacher at Middlebury High School. He taught math. He was known as the "Mystery Man." No one knows anything about him or his life. Ed wants to keep it that way. He didn&`&t want to be a teacher. He wanted to be an astronaut（宇航员）, but things didn&`&t work out that way. He came to Middlebury to teach, not to get to know the students.

Even though he wasn&`&t the happiest or friendliest teacher, Ed was always willing to help out his students if they needed help, but if they asked about his personal life（私人生活）, he would turn them away（拒绝）. One of the troublemakers（捣乱者） in the class, Matt, asked Ed what his plans for the weekend were. "I don&`&t know," Ed said. "Mr. Kane, tell us something about yourself," Matt asked. "That&`&s enough, Matt!" Ed said.

It wasn&`&t that Ed was embarrassed（尴尬的/不好意思的） by his lifestyle, but rather, Ed just thought that students should focus on（集中注意力） math. If he got too friendly with them, they might think of him as an "easy" teacher. Ed was married, with two kids and one guinea pig（豚鼠）. Ed&`&s hobbies included golfing（高尔夫） and swimming. Ed was a very intelligent man and only had two close friends.

95. The Bronze Age

青铜器时代
While on an expedition in western China twenty years ago, some explorers discovered the mummies of a tall, red-haired people.
20年前在中国西部探险时，一些探险家发现了身材高大的红发民族的木乃伊。
Though estimated to be nearly 4,000 years old, the corpses were quite well preserved.
虽然这些尸体据估计将近有4000年的历史之久，但它们保存得相当好。
Scientists are excited because these mummies are a link between the East and the West.
科学家很兴奋，因为这些木乃伊是东西方之间的一条连结线。
What were redheads doing in China and who were they?
这些红发人在中国做什么，以及他们是什么人？
Though the answers to these questions may never be answered with certainty,
虽然我们可能永远无法确实回答这些问题，
these mummies provide new information about the Bronze Age, when men used tools and weapons made of bronze.
然而这些木乃伊提供了有关青铜器时代的新资料，在当时人类使用青铜制成的工具和武器。
This was the period between the Stone Age and the Iron Age.
这一时期介于石器时代和铁器时代之间。
As the explorers continue their work, new mysteries are waiting to be discovered.
在探险家继续进行工作的同时，新的谜正在等着被发现。

96. What's the Point of Chewing Gum?

Being an American, Donna wants to learn more about the Chinese. She's talking to her Chinese friend, Jeff.

D: Hi, Jeff! What's up?
J: Nothing much. What about you?
D: Same as usual. Here, have a stick of gum.
J: No, thanks. I'll stick to my own brand.
D: And what brand's that?
J: Actually it's not gum. I eat raw garlic instead. Want a piece?
D: No way! So that's where the stinky smell is coming from.
J: Hey! Watch your tongue, ok? Garlic kills germs. It's good for you.
D: Says who?
J: Well, according to…
D: Never mind. Please stop talking. Your breath stinks. I'm out of here.
J: Boy! These Americans don't know what's good for them. Besides, what's the point of chewing gum anyway?

The Poor Man&`&s Cure-all
穷人的灵丹妙药

Having one of the world's largest garlic crops, Gilroy, California is known as the "garlic capital of the world."

On a hot summer day, a pungent odor rises from this farming town which can be smelled miles away.

All you have to do is roll down the window of your car and you know you're in Gilroy.
Believing that garlic helps the body fight many forms of diseases, people add garlic to their cooking in many parts of the world.

Moreover, it&`&s popularly used as the poor man&`&s cure-all.

During the First World War it was used as an antiseptic.

And in the Second World War it was known as "Russian penicillin."

Nowadays, thinking that it kills bacteria, some people eat raw garlic as if it were candy.

94. As Poor AS a Church Mouse

一贫如洗
Anna and Eric are talking about the previous lesson.
安娜和艾力克正在讨论前一课。
E: Wow! Those store clerks really got lucky.
艾力克：哇！那些店员真是走运。
A: You can say that again. Some people are born lucky.
安娜：我完全同意。有些人天生就是运气好。
E: There must be thousands of old men just like that doctor, I bet.
艾力克：我敢打赌一定有成千上万的老人和那个医师一样。
A: That's probably true. And they must be wanting to draw up a will to give their money away, too.
安娜：可能吧。而且他们一定也想要立遗嘱把他们的钱给别人。
So the next time you meet a lonely old man, you'd better treat him right.
所以下次你遇到孤独的老人时最好要好好对待他。
E: Come on! What kind of person do you think I am?
艾力克：得了吧！你以为我是那种人吗？
A: Don't get so mad! I'm just kidding! Besides, you might not be so lucky and come across my old uncle, Jake.
安娜：别那么生气嘛！我只是在开玩笑！而且你可能运气很背而遇到我那老叔叔杰克。
E: What do you mean?
艾力克：你这话什么意思？
A: He's as poor as a church mouse!
安娜：他是个穷光蛋！

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
在一生有多少这样的时刻：我们对一个人朝思暮想，只想一把把他们从梦中拉出来，真切的拥抱一回！

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
一扇通往幸福的门关闭了，另一扇幸福之门打开了，可有多少次啊，我们徘徊在那扇关闭的门前，却忽略了那扇早已为我们开启的新的幸福之门。

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
不要以貌取人，外貌可能会欺骗你；不要追逐财富，财富会消失的。去寻找那个让你笑口常开的人吧，一个微笑就可以使暗淡的日子豁然开朗。去追寻那个令你心灵愉悦的人吧！

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
做你想做的梦，去你想去的地方，成为你想成为的人，因为你只有一次生命和一次机会去做你想做的事情。

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
愿幸福与你永伴，使你亲切可爱；愿你历经磨难，使你坚韧不拔；愿你痛彻心肺，使你通情达理，愿你充满希望，使你幸福快乐。

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
世界上最幸福的人并不一定拥有最好的东西，他们只是最充分利用、珍惜了他们生命中的一切。

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
爱始于微笑，育于亲吻，终于流泪。

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
五彩缤纷的明天常常建立在对过去的遗忘之上。只有对过去的失败和伤痛不再耿耿于怀，生活才会变得更加美好。

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
当你呱呱落地、啼哭不已时，周围的人却笑逐颜开；要认真的生活，只有这样，当你走到生命的尽头时，你才会含笑而眠，而周围的人却痛哭不已。

93. One Good Turn Deserves Another

善有善报
One good turn deserves another. That's the lesson five store clerks learned recently.
“善有善报”是五名店员最近学到的一课。
Every day a strange old man came to their supermarket to buy groceries.
每天，一位陌生的老先生都会到他们的超市来买杂货。
"Once he came in wearing only one shoe," recalled one of the clerks.
其中一名店员回想到：“有一次他进来时只穿着一只鞋子。”
And although he grumbled a lot and they often had to stand there listening to him, he was a nice old man.
虽然他经常发牢骚并且他们得站在那里听他抱怨，但他仍然是个心地不坏得老先生。
The clerks befriended him and even helped him carry his groceries.
那几个店员待他像朋友一样，甚至还帮他拿他买的杂货。
One day when he fell ill with cancer, they even visited him in the hospital.
有一天他得了癌症，他们还到医院看望他。
The old man turned out to be a retired doctor.
那位老先生原来是一名退休得医师。
And, of course, when he died, he didn't die a pauper.
当然，他临终时并非是个穷光蛋。
He left US$70,000 in his will to thank them for their kindness.
他在他的遗嘱中留下7万美元来感谢他们的好心。

92. Only the Good Die Young

好人不长命
Diana bumps into her friend, Steve.
戴安娜和她的朋友史蒂夫不期而遇。
D: Hi, Steve! It's awful hot today, isn't it?
戴安娜：嗨，史蒂夫！今天热死人了，是不是？
S: You can say that again!
史蒂夫：你说的一点儿也没错！
D: Let's go kayaking later.
戴安娜：我们待会儿去划独木舟吧。
S: Are you kidding? I can't even swim.
史蒂夫：你在开玩笑吗？我连游泳都不会。
D: So what? You'll be safe with a life jacket and a helmet on.
戴安娜：那又怎么样？穿上救生衣和戴上安全帽你就万无一失了。
S: What if the kayak capsizes?
史蒂夫：如果独木舟翻过来怎么办？
D: I'll teach you to "Eskimo roll."
戴安娜：我会教你“爱斯基摩翻滚”。
S: What's that?
史蒂夫：那是什么东西呀？
D: Well, it's a special technique we use to get the kayak upright when it overturns.
戴安娜：嗯，那是独木舟翻覆时所用的一种使独木舟翻正的特殊技巧。
S: I don't know… it sounds pretty dangerous.
史蒂夫：我不知道......听起来蛮危险的。
D: Come on. Don't worry. Only the good die young.
戴安娜：好了啦。别担心，只有好人不长命。
S: What do you mean by that?
史蒂夫：你这话什么意思？
D: Just kidding. Let's go. OK?
戴安娜：只是开玩笑。我们走吧，好不好？
S: Ok. Anyway, if only the good die young, we'll both probably live to be a hundred.
史蒂夫：好吧。反正如果只有好人不长命，那我们两个大概都会活到100岁。

89. Kayaking 划独木舟

If you are a little adventurous, like water sports, and enjoy being around nature, then kayaking is definitely for you.
如果你有点儿冒险精神，又喜欢水上运动和接近大自然的话，那么划独木舟就一定适合你。
Floating, drifting and speeding down rivers is all part of kayaking.
漂浮、漂移和急速冲下河流都是划独木舟的一部分。
What better way is there to spend a boiling hot summer day?
还有什么比这样度过炎炎夏日更好的方法呢？
And if you think it is dangerous, you're dead wrong.
而且如果你认为这样很危险的话，那就大错特错了。
It's so safe, you don't even need to know how to swim!
它非常安全，以至于你甚至不需要会游泳！
Everyone wears a life jacket while kayaking.
划独木舟时，每个人都会穿一件救生衣。
So, you see, it's not a sport for the brave only.
所以，你看，这并不是一项专属于勇者的运动。
Kayaking may look difficult but it's really very easy.
划独木舟看起来很难，其实很容易。
Sea kayaking can be learned in 5 minutes!
海上独木舟不用5分钟就可以学会了。
However, it takes about two days to learn river kayaking.
然而，河流独木舟大约需要两天的时间。
And for an estimated US$1,500, you'll be able to own all the proper equipment, including the kayak.
大概花1500美元，所有的装备你就可以一应俱全，包括独木舟。
It's not cheap, but good things seldom are.
那并不便宜，可是一分价钱一分货。