雅思聽力在考試中占據(jù)著重要的地位,時常用聽力材料來磨耳朵可以不斷鞏固大腦的英語語言能力。以下是雅思聽力材料,您可以結(jié)合MP3和下方的原文及翻譯進行聽力學習。
聽力原文及翻譯
A: Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?
A:嗨,托馬斯,到目前為止你覺得這門課怎么樣?
B: Yeah, I think it's good.
B:我覺得很好。
A: Remind me, why did you decide to study sports science,didn't you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?
A:這提醒我了,你為什么決定學習體育科學,上學的時候你不是想成為一名職業(yè)運動員嗎?
B: Yeah, that was my goal, and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it. They thought I was brilliant.
B:是的,那是我的目標,我所有的同學都認為我會實現(xiàn)這個目標。他們都認為我很厲害。
A: That must have been a nice feeling.
A:那感覺一定很好。
B: Hmm...I thought I could win anything, there was no one who could run faster than me.
B:嗯……我以為我能贏得任何比賽,沒有人能跑得比我快。
A: Exactly. So what happened, did your mom and dad want you to be more academic?
A:沒錯。那么發(fā)生了什么,你的父母希望你更努力學習嗎?
B: Not at all. Perhaps they should have pushed me harder though.
B:那倒也沒有。不過他們應(yīng)該更努力地鞭策我才對。
A: What do you mean?
A:這話是什么意思?
B: I think I should have practiced more.
B:我想我應(yīng)該多練習。
A: What makes you say that?
A:為什么這么說?
B: Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train.
B:嗯,我之前去肯尼亞訓練了幾個星期。
A: Really? I didn't know that!
A:真的嗎?我都不知道!
B: I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids and run with some other top teenage athletes in the world. And I was so calm about it, I just kept thinking how fortunate I was, what a great chance this was, everyone back home was so proud of me. But once we started competing ,I very quickly realized I wasn't good enough.
B:我從眾多孩子中被選中去那里,與世界上其他一些頂尖的青少年運動員一起比賽。我對此非常平靜,我只是一直在想我是多么幸運,這是一個多么好的機會,家里的每個人都為我感到驕傲。但是一旦我們開始比賽,我很快就意識到自己不夠好。
A: That must have been a huge shock.
A:那一定是一個很大的打擊。
B: I thought this can't be happening, I was used to winning.
B:我覺得不應(yīng)該這樣的因為我已經(jīng)習慣了獲勝。
A: I'm sorry to hear that.
A:很抱歉聽到這個消息。
B: It's okay, I'm over it now, and I think it's much better to do a university course. And this one has such a variety of sports related areas, it's going to be good.
B:沒關(guān)系,我現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)克服了,我認為上大學課程要好得多。而且這門課程有如此多種與體育相關(guān)的領(lǐng)域,會很好。
A: Oh I agree, I chose it because of that.
A:我同意,我就是因此才選擇它的。
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