Advanced Listening Lesson 17

A: "Do you like to watch baseball?"

B: "Yeah. I follow the Mariners¹ every year."

A: "I wonder how they will do this year."

B: "I don't know if they have a chance. Did you hear that A-Rod went to the Yankees?"

A: "I know. Their team was too good even before getting Alex."

B: "Yeah. The richest team is usually the best team. They need to put a salary cap to make things fair."

A: "I agree. I don't know why they haven't done so already."

B: "But don't lose hope too soon. The Yankees don't have a good pitching staff this year. They might end up like the Texas Rangers². Great offense³, no pitching."

A: "I highly doubt that. Even though they lost Pettite, they still have a decent pitching rotation⁴."

B: "We'll see. I hope the Mariners do well this year."

A: "Me too. Oh, did you buy any tickets this year?"

B: "I got a couple of games with Oakland and Boston, but I couldn't get anything with the Yankees."

A: "Same here. I went in on the second day and all the tickets with the Yankees were already sold out."

B: "There's still plenty of other games though. We should go together one of these days."

A: "Sounds good. Let's plan for late June."

 

1 mariners   

海员，水手（mariner的复数形式）

参考例句：

• Mariners were also able to fix their latitude by using an instrument called astrolabe. 海员们还可使用星盘这种仪器确定纬度。
• The ancient mariners traversed the sea. 古代的海员漂洋过海。

2 rangers   

护林者( ranger的名词复数 )； 突击队员

参考例句：

• Do you know where the Rangers Stadium is? 你知道Rangers体育场在哪吗？ 来自超越目标英语 第3册
• Now I'm a Rangers' fan, so I like to be near the stadium. 现在我是Rangers的爱好者，所以我想离体育场近一点。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

3 offense   

n.犯规，违法行为；冒犯，得罪

参考例句：

• I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
• His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。

4 rotation   

n.旋转；循环，轮流

参考例句：

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.农作物轮作有助于防止水土流失。
• The workers in this workshop do day and night shifts in weekly rotation.这个车间的工人上白班和上夜班每周轮换一次。