Learn English Vocabulary Daily #15.1 — British English Podcast

Hello, and welcome to the English Like a Native Podcast.

您好，欢迎来到像母语一样的英语播客。

My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 15, Day 1 of Your English Five A

我叫安娜，你正在听《一天五篇英语》的第 15 周第一天

Day, a series that aims to increase your active vocabulary by five pieces every

，该系列旨在 从周一到周五每天 增加你的活跃词汇量 5 篇

day of the week from Monday to Friday.

。

So, let's start today's list with a noun, and it is terminal, terminal.

那么，让我们从一个名词开始今天的列表，它是终端，终端。

We spell this T E R M I N A L.

我们把这个拼写为TERMINA L.

Terminal, terminal.

Terminal，终端。

Now a terminal is an area or a building at a station, airport, or port that's

现在，航站楼是车站、机场或港口的一个区域或建筑物，供

used by passengers who are leaving or arriving by train, aeroplane, or ship.

乘火车、飞机或轮船离开或到达的乘客使用。

So, if you've ever taken a flight somewhere, then you

因此，如果您曾经在某个地方乘坐过航班，那么您

will have been in a terminal.

一定曾到过航站楼。

Here's an example sentence.

这是一个例句。

"Make sure you tell the taxi driver which terminal you need to go to.

“一定要告诉出租车司机你要去哪个航站楼。

Last time I went to Heathrow, they took me into the wrong one.

上次我去希思罗机场时，他们带我进了错误的航站楼。

I nearly missed my flight!"

我差点错过了航班！”

In big terminals, you'll find there are places to shop, places to eat,

在大型航站楼，您会发现有购物的地方、吃饭的地方、

places to drink, and hopefully relax before you have to travel.

喝酒的地方，希望您可以在旅行前放松一下。

Whenever I've left from a London airport, when I've left the country, I,

每当我从伦敦机场离开时，当我离开这个国家时，

in most cases, have enjoyed my time in the terminal, you know, buying little

在大多数情况下，我都在航站楼度过了愉快的时光，你知道，购买一些小

trinkets for your entertainment on the flight, puzzle books, buying some snacks.

饰品供您在航班上娱乐，拼图书籍，购买一些零食。

I always like to load up with food because if it's a long

我总是喜欢吃饱，因为如果是长途

flight, I tend to be hungry.

飞行，我往往会感到饥饿。

I don't like to leave myself with nothing.

我不喜欢让自己一无所有。

I'm a control freak and like to have something with me.

我是一个控制狂，喜欢和我一起拥有一些东西。

And also there are often restaurants and things that you can sit down

而且通常还有餐馆和其他地方，您可以坐下来

and have a fun meal with your family or your friends and just indulge in

与家人或朋友一起享用一顿有趣的饭菜，并沉浸在

the excitement of the upcoming trip.

即将到来的旅行的兴奋之中。

It's not so nice when the terminal is jam-packed with people though.

然而，当航站楼挤满了人时，情况就不太好了。

I have experienced that as well.

我也有过这样的经历。

When you can't move because there are so many people, you have to queue up for

当你因为人太多而无法移动时，你必须排队

20 minutes just to buy your sandwich and queue for the toilets and everything.

20 分钟才能买到三明治，还要排队上厕所等等。

That's a bit of a nightmare.

这有点像一场噩梦。

Anyway, let's move on to our next word.

无论如何，让我们继续我们的下一个词。

This is another noun and it is conveyor belt, conveyor belt.

这是另一个名词，它是传送带，传送带。

Have you spotted the theme for today?

你发现今天的主题了吗？

Conveyor belt is spelled C O N V E Y O R, conveyor.

输送带全拼为CONVEYOR、传送带。

Belt, B E L T conveyor belt.

皮带，BELT输送带。

The conveyor belt is that continuously moving strip or

传送带是一种连续移动的条带或

surface that's used for transporting objects from one place to another.

表面，用于将物体从一个地方运输到另一个地方。

So, for example, in the airport, the conveyor belt is where you would put

例如，在机场，传送带是您放置

your luggage and then it just moves away from you and gets taken through a little

行李的地方，然后它就会远离您并通过一个小

secret portal and ends up on the plane and hopefully will end up at your destination.

秘密门户被带到飞机上，并希望最终到达您的目的地。

And when you have arrived at your destination, you stand at the

当您到达目的地时，您站在

conveyor belt, waiting, watching all these different pieces of luggage

传送带旁等待，看着所有这些不同的行李

go by, waiting to spot yours.

经过，等待找到您的行李。

And then it's a mad dash to grab your luggage and haul it off the conveyor belt.

然后疯狂地冲过去抓住你的行李并将其从传送带上拖下来。

I think when you're a kid.

我想当你还是个孩子的时候。

It's always quite exciting seeing that conveyor belt.

看到传送带总是令人兴奋。

The idea of jumping onto it and being transported is quite tempting.

跳上它并被传送的想法非常诱人。

When I was there with my two sons recently, I had to hold

最近，当我和两个儿子一起去那里时，我不得不阻止

them back because they were like,

他们，因为他们说，

"Oh, it's a ride!"

“哦，这是一次骑行！”

I'm like,

"No, don't, don't get on the conveyor belt.

我说， “不，不要，不要上传送带。

I might lose you."

我可能会失去你。”

And that would be terrible.

那将是可怕的。

Okay, so terminal and conveyor belt.

好的，现在是终端和传送带了。

Let's move on to our next phrase.

让我们继续下一个短语。

This is an idiom and it is butterflies in your stomach.

这是一个成语，它是你胃里的蝴蝶。

Butterflies in your stomach.

你的胃里有蝴蝶。

Butterflies spelled B U T T E R F L I E S, butterflies.

蝴蝶拼写为 BUTT ERFLIES，蝴蝶。

In your stomach, S T O M A C H, stomach.

在你的胃里，胃里，胃里。

Butterflies in your stomach.

你的胃里有蝴蝶。

Can you imagine actually having physical butterflies fluttering

你能想象现实中的蝴蝶

around inside your stomach?

在你的胃里飞舞吗？

That would feel very unusual, wouldn't it?

那会感觉很不寻常，不是吗？

So, this idiom, to have butterflies in your stomach, is something you say when

所以，“胃里有蝴蝶”这个成语是指当

you feel very nervous or frightened about something, where you get that

你对某件事感到非常紧张或害怕时，你会感到

fluttering feeling in your stomach.

胃里有一种颤动的感觉。

Here's an example,

举个例子，

"I always get butterflies in my stomach the night before I fly!

“我在起飞前一天晚上总是心惊胆战！

You'd think I'd be used to it after all these years."

你可能会认为这么多年之后我已经习惯了。”

Now, when was the last time that you had butterflies in your stomach?

现在，你最后一次心惊胆战是什么时候？

As an old actress, I say old, not old in age, but in the past I was an

作为一个老女演员，我说老，不是年龄老，而是以前我是一个

actress, I used to suffer with severe butterflies in my stomach before

作为女演员，在 参加新节目的第一个晚上

doing the first night of a new show.

之前，我常常感到胃里一阵紧张 。

So, when we hadn't yet shown the performance to anyone, it was a

所以，当我们还没有向任何人展示这个表演时，它是一个

completely new performance; going out in front of that first audience always

全新的表演；它是一个全新的表演。在第一批观众面前出场总是

gave me big butterflies in my stomach.

让我心里忐忑不安。

Next on our list is a verb and it is upgrade, to upgrade.

我们列表中的下一个是动词，它是升级，升级。

We spell this U P G R A D E.

我们将这个 UPGRAD E.

Upgrade.

升级。

To upgrade is to give someone something of a better standard or something newer.

升级是给某人一些更好标准或更新的东西。

For example, a better seat on a plane would be an upgrade; or a better

例如，在飞机上获得更好的座位就是升舱；或者

room in a hotel would be an upgrade.

酒店的更好的房间将是升级。

Sometimes people are very lucky and they're just upgraded because they

有时人们非常幸运，他们升级只是因为他们

were in the right place at the right time, or because it was their birthday

在正确的时间出现在正确的地点，或者因为这是他们的生日

and someone was feeling generous.

并且有人感到慷慨。

Saying,

"Do you know what, our best room is empty, so why don't we upgrade

说：

“你知道吗，我们最好的房间已经空了，所以我们为什么不给

you to the penthouse suite?"

你升级到顶层套房呢？”

Have you ever been upgraded like that?

你有过这样的升级吗？

Have you ever stepped on a plane, going like economy class and then being

你有没有坐过飞机，先升到经济舱，然后升到

upgraded to business class or first class?

商务舱或头等舱？

Has that ever happened to you?

你有过这样的经历吗？

It's never happened to me.

这从来没有发生在我身上。

So, if any airlines are listening, any hotel chains, if I come and stay with

因此，如果有任何航空公司、任何连锁酒店在倾听，如果我来和

you or fly with you, then you're welcome to upgrade me to give me the experience.

您一起住宿或乘坐您的航班，那么欢迎您为我升级，为我提供体验。

But we also often upgrade our phones, upgrade equipment,

但我们也经常升级我们的手机、升级设备、

upgrade our bicycles or our cars.

升级我们的自行车或汽车。

As time goes on, these mechanical and electrical

随着时间的推移，这些机械和电气

devices usually need an upgrade.

设备通常需要升级。

So, here's an example sentence,

因此，这里有一个例句，

"I've only ever been upgraded on a flight once, it was on my honeymoon and

“我只在航班上升舱过一次，那是在我的蜜月期间，

I felt even more special than normal."

我感觉比平常更特别。”

Last on our list for today is an adverb and it is diligently,

今天我们名单上的最后一个是副词，它是勤奋，

diligently, diligently.

勤奋，勤奋。

It's a little bit of a mouthful.

有点拗口了。

Let me spell this for you.

让我为你拼写这个。

D I L I G E N T L Y.

勤奋 Y.

Diligently.

勤奋。

Diligently.

勤奋地。

If you do something diligently, then you do it in a way that is

如果你勤奋地做一件事，那么你就会以一种

careful and uses a lot of effort.

小心翼翼、付出很多努力的

When I am filing my tax returns, I go through the numbers diligently.

方式去做 。 当我提交纳税申报表时，我会认真核对这些数字。

One incorrectly placed decimal point could cost me a lot of money

一个小数点位置错误可能会花费我很多钱

or get me into a lot of trouble.

或者给我带来很多麻烦。

So, I go through my tax return diligently to make sure that

因此，我认真检查我的纳税申报表，以确保

everything is precise and correct.

一切都准确无误。

What do you do diligently?

你勤奋地做什么？

Here's an example sentence,

这是一个例句，

"The flight attendant diligently checked that every passenger

“空乘人员认真检查每位乘客

had their seatbelt fastened.

是否系好安全带。

As always, a few people had to be reminded."

一如既往，必须提醒一些人。”

Okay, that's our five.

好吧，这就是我们的五个。

So, let's do a quick recap.

那么，让我们快速回顾一下。

We started with the noun terminal, which is the area or building in

我们从名词航站楼开始，它是

a station, airport or port where passengers leave and arrive.

车站、机场或港口中乘客离开和到达的区域或建筑物。

Then we moved on to another noun, conveyor belt, which is the continuously moving

然后我们转向另一个名词，传送带，它是

strip that carries objects from one place to another in an airport, it's our

在机场中将物体从一个地方运送到另一个地方的连续移动的带子，传送带

baggage that goes on the conveyor belt.

上传送的是我们的行李。

Then we had the idiom butterflies in your stomach, which describes

然后我们有成语“蝴蝶在你的肚子里”，它描述了

that very nervous feeling when we're frightened about something.

当我们对某件事感到害怕时非常紧张的感觉。

Then we had the verb upgrade, which is to get something of a better standard

然后我们有动词升级，这是为了获得

or newer than the previous thing.

比以前更好的标准或更新的东西。

Then we had the adverb diligently, which is to do something in a way that's

然后我们有副词diligently，意思是

very careful and uses a lot of effort.

非常小心并付出很多努力去做某事。

So, let's do this now for pronunciation.

那么，现在我们就来练习发音吧。

Please repeat after me.

请跟着我重复一遍。

Terminal.

终端。

Terminal.

终端。

Conveyor belt.

输送带。

Conveyor belt.

输送带。

Butterflies in your stomach.

你的胃里有蝴蝶。

Butterflies in your stomach.

你的胃里有蝴蝶。

Upgrade.

升级。

Upgrade.

升级。

Diligently.

勤奋地。

Diligently.

勤奋地。

Very good.

非常好。

Now, if I arrive at the hotel and they tell me that I'm going to get

现在，如果我到达酒店，他们告诉我，我将获得

a bigger, better room than the one that I'd booked, what are they doing?

比我预订的房间更大、更好的房间，他们会做什么？

What verb would I use here?

我在这里会使用什么动词？

Upgrade.

升级。

Yes, they are upgrading me.

是的，他们正在升级我。

"Congratulations, Miss Tyrie, you have been upgraded."

“恭喜泰莉小姐，你已经升级了。”

And if I'm about to get on a plane and I've got this nervous fluttering in

如果我即将登上飞机，而我

my stomach, what idiom could I use?

的胃里却紧张得颤抖，我能用什么成语呢？

Butterflies in my stomach.

我的肚子里有蝴蝶。

Yes, I've got butterflies in my stomach.

是的，我心里七上八下。

And the area, the building in which I'm standing while I'm waiting

我在等飞机时所站的那个区域，那个建筑物

for my plane, is called what?

，叫什么？

What noun would we use here?

我们在这里会使用什么名词？

Terminal.

终端。

I'm standing in the terminal, waiting for my flight with butterflies in my stomach.

我站在航站楼等待航班，心里忐忑不安。

Now when I arrive at the other end, at my destination, I'm going

现在，当我到达另一端，到达目的地时，我将

to stand by this moving strip, hoping that my baggage comes out.

站在这条移动的跑道旁，希望我的行李能出来。

What's this moving strip called?

这条会动的带子叫什么？

Conveyor belt, conveyor belt.

输送带，输送带。

And when I take my baggage through security, they are going to check

当我带着行李通过安检时，他们会

everything in a way that's very careful and takes a lot of effort.

非常仔细地检查所有物品，并且需要付出很大的努力。

What adverb could I use here?

我在这里可以使用什么副词？

Diligently, diligently.

勤奋，勤奋。

Fantastic, let's bring all of those words and phrases together in a little story.

太棒了，让我们将所有这些单词和短语放在一个小故事中。

When was the last time you went on an overseas holiday?

您最后一次去海外度假是什么时候？

Did you fly?

你飞了吗？

Take the Eurotunnel?

乘坐欧洲隧道？

A ferry?

渡轮？

Now, I love travelling, but as I've grown older, travelling doesn't seem to love me!

现在，我喜欢旅行，但随着年龄的增长，旅行似乎不爱我了！

Whereas I used to get all excited about catching a plane to some

过去，我对搭乘飞机前往

exotic, hot and sunny destination, now I get butterflies in my stomach.

异国情调、炎热、阳光明媚的目的地感到非常兴奋，但现在我却心惊肉跳。

It always happens the night before we're due to go.

它总是发生在我们出发前一天晚上。

I spend two weeks packing diligently, ensuring we have clothes for every

我花了两周的时间勤奋地收拾行李，确保我们有适合各种

type of weather, just in case.

天气的衣服，以防万一。

I have passports in my bumbag, local currency in my purse, and the clothes

我的腰包里有护照，钱包里有当地货币，

set out ready for the morning.

早上准备好的衣服。

I'm laying there trying to sleep as I know there's an early start to look forward

我躺在那里想睡觉，因为我知道要早点开始

to, but I just can't get over the nerves.

，但我就是无法克服紧张。

I have to think positively.

我必须积极思考。

I might get upgraded!

我可能会升级！

Imagine arriving at the airport.

想象一下到达机场的情况。

Oh, make sure you go to the right terminal unlike me, when I once flew to Dubai from

哦，请确保您去的是正确的航站楼，不像我，有一次我从希思罗机场飞往迪拜，最终

Heathrow and ended up at terminal 4 rather than 3, checking in, and being told you

在 4 号航站楼而不是 3 号航站楼办理登机手续，并被告知您

have been upgraded to business class!

已升级为商务舱！

Result!

结果！

All that's left to do now is put your suitcase on the conveyor belt and

现在剩下要做的就是将您的手提箱放在传送带上，然后

watch them being whisked away to meet you at your dream holiday location.

看着它们被迅速带走，在您梦想的度假地点与您会面。

Now, get to the business class lounge and enjoy a cocktail or

现在，前往商务舱休息室享用一两杯鸡尾酒

two, you are on holiday after all!

，毕竟您是在度假！

And the cocktails help with the nerves.

鸡尾酒有助于舒缓神经。

And that brings us to the end of today's episode.

今天这一集就到此结束了。

I do hope you found it useful.

我真心希望你觉得它有用。

If you did, then please leave it a rating or a view or a big fat like.

如果您这样做了，请给它一个评级、一个视图或一个大赞。

That would be greatly appreciated.

我们将不胜感激。

And until tomorrow, take very good care and goodbye.

直到明天，好好照顾并再见。