环球慢速英语 听众来信(5)

Voice 2: Our next letter comes from William in Venezuela:

声音2：下封信来自委内瑞拉的威廉。

Voice 6: "I live in Punto Fijo in the Falcon¹ state. I have been reading your scripts². Your website seems a great tool for improving my English."

声音6：“我住在法尔孔州蓬托菲霍。我一直在阅读你们的文本。你们的网站是提高我英语水平的好工具。”

Voice 2: Our website is a good resource³. On it we have a list of the words we use. We also have links to English learning⁴ sites. These are good tools for improving your English language skills.

声音2：我们的网站是优秀的资源。网站上有我们使用的单词列表。还有英语学习网站的链接。这些是提高你英语技能的好工具。

Voice 1: And now it is time to look at the growing problem of the sex trade. Banana wrote to us from Bangkok, Thailand. She said:

声音1：现在，是时候来说日益严重的性交易问题了。巴娜娜从泰国曼谷给我们发来了电邮。她说：

Voice 7: "I like to hear your programmes so much. I try to listen as often as I can. ... I listened to your programme 'Nightlight'. In this programme you talked about the Thai girl and sex workers. I think this is a big problem in Bangkok. Those girls need a good education. And they need God. But there are a lot of girls here who do not do those things. This is a beautiful land."

声音7：“我非常喜欢听你们的节目。我尽量经常听……我听了《夜灯》这期节目。在这期节目中，你们谈到了一名泰国女孩还有性工作者。我认为这在曼谷是很严重的问题。那些女孩需要接受良好的教育。她们需要上帝的帮助。但是泰国也有很多女孩不做这些事情。这是一片美丽的土地。”

1 falcon   

n.隼，猎鹰

参考例句：

• The falcon was twice his size with pouted feathers.鹰张开羽毛比两只鹰还大。
• The boys went hunting with their falcon.男孩子们带着猎鹰出去打猎了。

2 scripts   

剧本( script的名词复数 )； 文字； 笔迹； （一种语言的）字母系统

参考例句：

• Many felt he was prostituting his talents by writing Hollywood scripts. 许多人觉得他给好莱坞写剧本是滥用自己的才华。
• The scripts had a rather tired plot. 这部陈旧的剧本的情节是非常俗套的。

3 resource   

n.资源，财力

参考例句：

• All pollution is simply an unused resource.所有的污染只不过是一种未被利用的资源。
• He is full of resource in any emergency.他富有随机应变的才能。

4 learning   

n.学问，学识，学习；动词learn的现在分词

参考例句：

• When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时，常会从车上掉下来。
• Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。