试听180秒听力-第1集-part2-一个词颠覆你的听力+活用”HOW LONG”

LESSON 1 – 一个词颠覆你的听力+活用”HOW LONG”

课/听前任务

1.     Lynette是跟什么人说话？跟很久没见的朋友？还是很熟的朋友？还是陌生人？

2.     因为哪个或哪些词你确定了 “1”的答案？

3.     最后一句话你认为Lynette的语气是什么样的？这种语气告诉了你什么信息？比如，开心或不开心？

对话内容

-SHOPPER: Lynette Scavo?

-LYNETTE: Crap. Natalie Klein, I don’t believe it!

-SHOPPER: Lynette! How long has it been?

-LYNETTE: Years! Uh, how are you, how’s the firm?

-SHOPPER: Good, everyone misses you.

-LYNETTE: Yeah.

-SHOPPER: We all say, if you hadn’t quit, you’d be running the place by now.

-LYNETTE: Yeah, well.

词汇

crap: 废话

quit: 辞职 run: (工作等)进行 by now: 到如今

句型

How long has it been?

How long has it been since you quit your job?

How long has it been since our last vacation?

How long have you been working in this company?

How long has she been working in this company?

S01E12 (18:56)

Lauren: "Oh my God. When you said you had a sick child, I had no idea. How long has it been?"

Lynette: "Uh, it kind of snuck up on us."

Lauren: "He's so young too. God, it just breaks my heart."

Lynette: "Oh."

S01E07 (34:51)

Kendra: "So, how long have you two been seeing each other?" （seeing someone指拍拖）

Susan: "Well, you sort of interrupted our first date. But up until then,smoking hot tension. Sounds pathetic, I know." 你把我们的第一次约会给搅合了，但在那之前也就是互相听看对眼的。听起来很可怜是吧，我知道。

S01E16 (24:42)

Edie: "How long have you been sitting here?"

Susan: "I don't know. Five minutes, give or take three hours." (give or take 差不多)

Exercise

完成听力小挑战，找出how long的句子，并尝试找出自己听不懂的原因（是单词听不懂，还是感觉速度太快，还是其它什么原因？）