听播客学英语 270 棺材（在线收听） |
I have another video for you today. It has been made by Carol. She paints coffins. She tells us that she started about ten years ago. People ask her how she GOT INTO painting coffins. She woke up one morning and knew that she wanted to paint coffins for the rest of her life. The first coffin that she painted was her own. She has painted it with her favourite wild flowers (foxgloves, bull rushes, cow parsley), and also a poem by John Keats called “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”. Her coffin has a burgundy coloured lining, because a COMFY lining is important. People ask her to paint all sorts of things – countryside scenes, hobbies, pets, flowers, football colours, angels – her Mum wants angels on her coffin. One person has asked for a PAGE THREE GIRL to be painted on the inside of his coffin lid. “Whatever TURNS YOU ON!” she says.
Some vocabulary notes. How did Carol GET INTO painting coffins – this is a colloquial expression which means how did she first become interested in painting coffins, or how did she first start. COMFY is a colloquial word which means comfortable. A PAGE THREE GIRL – well, some of our newspapers – not the newspapers I read, naturally – contain pictures of young ladies with few if any clothes on. Traditionally, these are on page three. So a page three girl is a model posing naked or near naked. Finally, whatever TURNS YOU ON means whatever makes you excited.
Now view the video. Go to the podcast website (http://www.listen-to-english.com/). There is a link from this podcast to a BBC web page. Click on the link, and then on “View the Video”. |
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