瞬间秒杀听力 第490期:一桩事故

 

Sally and her husband, Jack¹,

have both been driving for three years.

Jack has always driven very carefully.

He has never been in an accident.

Sally, however, has never been a good driver.

She has already gotten into

four accidents this year.

Each time she has had an accident,

she has claimed that it was not her fault.

Yesterday, Sally drove into a tree.

She blamed it on the tree,

saying that she honked² the horn,

but the tree didn't get out of the way.

萨莉和她丈夫杰克两人开车已有三年了。

杰克开车总是很小心，他从未发生过事故。

然而，萨莉就一直不是个好驾驶员。

她今年已经出过四次车祸了。

每次她发生事故，她总是宣称那不是她的错。

昨天萨莉撞到一棵树，

她把她的错归罪于那棵树，

她说她按了喇叭，但那棵树就是不让路。

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 honked   

v.（使）发出雁叫似的声音，鸣（喇叭），按（喇叭）( honk的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I drove up in front of the house and honked. 我将车开到屋子前面然后按喇叭。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• He honked his horn as he went past. 他经过时按响了汽车喇叭。 来自《简明英汉词典》