聽力每日練習(xí) listen 1059 A Basket Case

 
2--Gloria has a lot of things going on in her life right now.
 
1--Yes, she does. Her parents are sick. Her car is not working.
 
2--She's building a new house and she just got a new job.
 
1--Wow! That's a lot of stress.
 
2--One more thing and she's going to be a basket case!
 
1--Will Gloria really become a container for baskets?
 
2--I don't think so.If you experience a lot of stress or try to handle too many things at the same time, your life might become very difficult.
 
1--The nervous strain or tension might wear you out and leave you with a sense of hopelessness.
 
2--That's what a basket case means.
 
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注解：
 
1.stress壓力
2.container容器
3.tension緊張 

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譯文：

1--有時候美語并不是字面上的意思。比如：
2--Gloria現(xiàn)在可多事要做了。
1--是的，她爸媽生病了，她的車壞了。
2--她在建新房子，她剛剛才獲得一份新工作。
1--哇喔。壓力真多。
2--還有一點(diǎn)，她快絕望啦！（a basket case）
1--Gloria真的變成一個裝東西的籃子了么？
2--我可不這樣想。如果你面臨著很多壓力，試圖同時解決很多事情，你的生活可能會變得很難。
1--緊繃的神經(jīng)可能會使你崩潰，讓你走投無路。
2--a basket case（絕望）就是這個意思。