英语听力：2013-08-09 流言终结者 第11季 第8集 完全爆炸手册—4

 Roll the tape.

 

Love it when common materials are dangerous. Go ahead and light it.

 

There’s no doubt that the bomb range can blow a gasket. 

 

Bye-bye.

 

As for this countdown, it makes for the perfect “B” movie.

 

Did you get that on high speed?

 

But for the “C” word of the day, Tory’s arriving in style. 

 

Nice ride.

 

Thanks.

 

I guess I know what “C” is for.

 

Exactly. “C” is for cement truck or cement truck explosion which has become iconic on Mythbusters. In fact, it is pretty much of what Mythbusters is all about—fun, science, and taking things to the max.

 

Indeed. But while the ending was epic¹, the start of this cement truck cleanout was anything but. 

 

What do you think that is? About a half a cubic foot?

 

If that.

 

Oh, my god.

 

That’s it! Tory. Yeah, I know. It’s pretty pathetic. 

 

You all know at the end of that explosion, it just poses so nicely without the little booms earlier in the show. 

 

You know, that was the fire truck leaving. 

 

And that build-up made it even more exciting.

 

Yep.

 

It was the failure of the small explosions that made the big ones so special. 

 

However, that’s the one explosion that we don’t have a high speed of. 

 

Oh, that’s right! Everybody was just sitting there waiting in anticipation². The cement truck was there. Boom! It’s gone! High fiving, celebration. We looked over at the high-speed operator and he looks like he’s going to cry. There was a technical glitch³. First huge explosion in Mythbusters history, no high-speed shot.

 

This blink-and-you-miss-it moment could only be slowed down by literally⁴ playing the footage one frame at a time.

1 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

2 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。

3 glitch   

n.干扰；误操作，小故障

参考例句：

• There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
• It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障，重新启动主机就能解决了。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。