【小編寄語】詞典不是最重要的,關鍵在于語境。可以說,單詞沒有多少實際運用的價值,機械記憶的單詞量再大,也不會真正提高你的外語水平。因此,從今天開始,可可聽力頻道針對“零英語”基礎的朋友們,專門推出這檔“聽基礎單詞,練聽力”的節目。每天我們之需要你聽懂一個詞,并提供一段相應的對話,加深大家的印象。相信滴水可以穿石,付出總會有收獲的!
【今日基礎詞】Competition
【Transcript】
Once upon a time, there was a crowd of frogs which were going to have a climbing competition, and the destination of which being the top of an extraordinarily high steel tower. A host of frogs were surrounding the steel tower, watching the competition and cheering for the competitors. At the beginning of the competition, frankly speaking, nearly no audience frogs believed that these little frogs could arrive at the top.
They were talking about like this, “It is too difficult to reach the top! They surely can not arrive at the top! They can not be successful, because the tower is too high to climb!”
After receiving those messages, frogs began to lose heart from one to another, and only a few passionate frogs were still climbing.
However, the audience frogs still kept shouting, “It is too difficult and no one could reach the top!”
More and more frogs became tired and quitted from the competition. Nonetheless, there was a frog still climbing higher and higher, which had no sense of giving up.
It tried very hard and finally became the only winner who arrived at the top. One frog ran to ask the winner where the strength came from during the whole competition.
He then finally found out that this frog was totally a deaf!
【注】extraordinarily ad. 非常地;frankly speaking 老實說