【一起听英语】烤鸡

很多喜欢吃烤鸡，他们喜欢吃烤鸡的同时加入烤土豆和蔬菜还有各种调料，听着就留口水了......

Jennifer: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm

Jennifer and with me today is Rob.

Rob: Hello there.

Jennifer: Now, Rob, are you a fan of roast chicken?

Rob: Definitely. There’s nothing better than a lovely roast chicken on a Sunday,

with all the trimmings, of course!

Jennifer: Indeed. The trimmings are the foods that accompany the chicken. Here in

the UK, people traditionally eat roast potatoes and vegetables with their

chicken, as well as stuffing.

Rob: Stuffing is a mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs which is stuffed, or

pushed, inside the roast chicken. And it is delicious!

Jennifer: Well, you might be surprised to learn that today’s story is about stuffing

roast chickens with something rather different… But first, a quiz question,

I think!

 

Rob: It wouldn’t be 6 Minute English without a quiz question, would it?

Jennifer: Here goes. The chicken is thought to be the closest living relative to an

extinct species – that’s a species which no longer exists, or has died out.

Now, which species is it?

a) The dodo

b) The tyrannosaurus rex

c) The pterodactyl

Rob: Well I’m going to say the dodo, because it looks a bit like a chicken.

Jennifer: As usual, we’ll find out if you’re right at the end of the programme. Let’s

return to our story now, which is all about a failed attempt at drug

smuggling¹ in Nigeria.

Rob: Hang on! I thought you said today’s programme was about stuffing roast

chickens?

Jennifer: It is. Our story is about a Nigerian man, living in Brazil, who was

struggling to earn a decent living.

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Rob: So, in other words, he didn’t earn a lot of money.

Jennifer: The man had been working as a mechanic in Brazil, but decided² he could

earn more money if he smuggled⁴ drugs to sell back in his native country

of Nigeria.

Rob: If you smuggle³ goods in or out of a country, you bring them in without

the authorities’ knowledge. Drug smuggling is, of course, illegal.

Jennifer: Let’s listen to the first part of a report by BBC correspondent Leana Hosea.

How did the mechanic try to smuggle drugs into Nigeria?

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A Nigerian mechanic has been caught by the Drug Enforcement Agency in Lagos airport,

Nigeria, attempting to smuggle $150,000 worth of cocaine⁵ in roast chickens.

Investigators⁶ say they found over 2.5kg of the unusual stuffing, wrapped up in tin foil,

egg-shaped packages.

Rob: So that’s where the roast chickens come in. The mechanic tried to

conceal⁷, or hide, the cocaine inside the chickens.

Jennifer: He was very inventive, or creative, as he hid the drugs in egg-shaped

packages.

Rob: It’s certainly risky⁸, though. So why did he try to bring $150,000 worth of

drugs into Nigeria?

Jennifer: Well, it seems he had a plan for the money. Here’s the second part of

Leana Hosea’s report: listen out for what he planned to do with the money.

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They called it a remarkable⁹ seizure¹⁰, saying they never expected to find thousands of

dollars’ worth of drugs in roast chickens. The suspect had flown in from Brazil, where he

had been allegedly struggling to make a decent living for years. A spokesman for the

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says this was the suspect's retirement¹¹ plan,

and he had been hoping to start a business with the drug sales.

Rob: The money was part of the man’s retirement plan. A retirement plan is

something you arrange to do when you retire, or stop working. It often

involves saving lots of money.

Jennifer: He wanted to start a business, but the drugs were seized, or taken, by

authorities before he got the chance.

Rob: We also heard in the report that the seizure of the drugs was remarkable,

or unusual, because the authorities didn’t expect so many drugs to be

hidden.

Jennifer: Smugglers are using increasingly imaginative ways to conceal their drugs.

Rob: Recently the Nigerian authorities have found drugs hidden in the lining¹² of

suitcases, in wigs¹³ and even in a doctor’s stethoscope! 

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Jennifer: Let’s listen to the final part of the report now. What are the Nigerian

authorities using to help spot the drug carriers?

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Nigeria is a major transit¹⁴ point for drugs, but the authorities have made efforts to

improve security after a Nigerian man was discovered on a plane to Detroit, attempting

to explode a bomb in his underpants three years ago. The Nigerian authorities say

airport body scanners have helped identify more than one hundred drug carriers last

year.

Rob: The authorities have used body scanners to help spot the drug

smugglers. Body scanners are machines which can detect whether you are

carrying any illegal substances.

Jennifer: It’s really an ongoing¹⁵ battle, but they are trying to improve security,

particularly at airports.

Rob: Thankfully the drugs hidden inside the chickens did not make it into the

country this time.

Jennifer: Indeed. Now, speaking of chickens, we need to wrap up the quiz before

the end of the programme. The chicken is the closest relative to an extinct

species. Is it:

a) The dodo

b) The Tyrannosaurus Rex

c) The Pterodactyl

Rob: I said the dodo – am I right?

Jennifer: You were actually wrong I’m afraid, but good reasoning! The chicken is

actually the closest living relative of the gigantic and terrifying dinosaur¹⁶,

the tyrannosaurus rex!

Rob: I’ll never look at a chicken, or eat a chicken, in the same way again!

Jennifer: We’ve just got time to recap some of the vocabulary we’ve heard in

today’s programme.

Rob: The words we heard were:

stuffing

extinct

smuggle

conceal

inventive

retirement plan

seized

remarkable

Jennifer: Join us again for more 6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com. Bye

for now! 

1 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 smuggle   

vt.私运；vi.走私

参考例句：

• Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
• She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。

4 smuggled   

水货

参考例句：

• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网

5 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

6 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 conceal   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽

参考例句：

• He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
• He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。

8 risky   

adj.有风险的，冒险的

参考例句：

• It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险，但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
• He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。

9 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

10 seizure   

n.没收；占有；抵押

参考例句：

• The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
• The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。

11 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

12 lining   

n.衬里，衬料

参考例句：

• The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
• Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。

13 wigs   

n.假发，法官帽( wig的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
• Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克，因为我们需要更多的假发，而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白

14 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

15 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

16 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。