Lesson 15

Listening

OutlineSection Two: Vocabulary

A) Quick lunch B) Dinner D) Why can’t I do what I like?

A lesson: A polite Request A joke: Blind Date VOA News: Words and Their Stories: Inse

ct Expressions

Lager: a kind of beer, effervescent and light in color and body窖藏啤酒，陈贮啤酒

Prawn: a marine crustacean which resembles a large shrimp对虾，明虾；虾

Plaice: a North Atlantic flatfish which is a commercially important food fish鲽；拟庸鲽

Sherry: a fortified wine originally and mainly from southern Spain, often drunk as an aperitif 雪利酒

Rack: a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things（尤指设有横杆、横木、挂钩或挂钉的）架子，挂架，支架，搁架

Carafe: an open-topped glass flask typically used for serving wine in a restaurant卡拉夫瓶（餐馆中尤用来盛酒的顶部开口长颈瓶）

Conductress: a female conductor, especially in a bus or other passenger vehicle女指挥；（尤指公共汽车的）女售票员；女列车长

Misery: a state or feeling of great distress or discomfort of mind or body痛苦，苦恼；苦难

Make-up: cosmetics such as lipstick or powder applied to the face, used to enhance or alter the appearance化妆品

Blind Date

make a good impression (on ) 留个好印像 Shrimp cocktail  鸡尾虾 Pate: pie Caesar Salad  恺撒沙拉 Crepes Suzette 柳橙火焰可丽饼 with no regard to  完全不考虑 Mississippi River  密西西比河 take sb out for dinner 带某人出去吃饭

Words and Their Stories: Insect Expressions

as busy as a bee a beehive of activity makes a beeline the bee's knees a bee in her bonnet that is none of your beeswax the birds and the bees

mad as a hornet stir up a hornet's nest have butterflies in your stomach stop bugging me put a bug in your ear snug as a bug in a rug sleep tight -- don't let the bed bugs bite