2013年ESL之日常生活 30 Living With Insects and Spiders

 

Living With Insects and Spiders

Judith: Ahh! Get it off me! 

Murad: It’s just a tiny spider. Don’t freak out. 

Judith: I hate spiders. What is this place you’ve brought me to? 

Murad: It’s one of the most beautiful spots in the world and we’ll be staying here tonight. 

Judith: You mean we’ll be roughing it in this cabin? Is that a cockroach¹ that just ran across the floor? 

Murad: Maybe. In this place, you’ll see some of the most amazing things. It’s the next best thing to sleeping in the open. 

Judith: Great. Can you close that window? There are flies and moths² everywhere, and I think those were bees and wasps³ just outside the door. 

Murad: They won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. Listen to that! We can fall asleep to the sound of crickets. 

Judith: Ouch! I think I’ve just been bitten by a giant mosquito. 

Murad: You’re imagining things. Look at those butterflies just outside the window. Don’t you think they’re beautiful? 

Judith: Do you know what would look beautiful to me right now? A really big mosquito net! 

 

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 

1 cockroach   

n.蟑螂

参考例句：

• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head off.蟑螂在头被切掉后仍能活好几个星期。
• She screamed when she found a cockroach in her bed.她在床上找到一只蟑螂时大声尖叫。

2 moths   

n.蛾( moth的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The moths have eaten holes in my wool coat. 蛀虫将我的羊毛衫蛀蚀了几个小洞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The moths tapped and blurred at the window screen. 飞蛾在窗帘上跳来跳去，弄上了许多污点。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 wasps   

黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 )； 胡蜂； 易动怒的人； 刻毒的人

参考例句：

• There's a wasps' nest in that old tree. 那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
• We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. 我们不仅生活在对象蜘蛛或黄蜂这样的小虫的惧怕中，而且生活在对诸如飞蛾这样无害昆虫的惧怕中