英語趣味課堂：最佳搭檔 Perfect Match

Todd: So, Eli, do you miss home?

Eli: I'm missing home a lot actually, at the moment. I wasn't when I first arrived, because of all the excitement about being here, and everything, but since actually about a month and a half ago, my boyfriend came here for three weeks, three and a half weeks, and we went traveling around the rest of Japan, which I think is very important, if you're here, you got to do it and he was the perfect person to do it and we had loads and loads of fun, and since he's left, yeah, I've started to think about home a bit more, now living here is kind of just normal way of life and after the big excitement of having him here, you know traveling around everywhere, it's, I'm starting to think about him, my family, my friends and just you know when I ring him up they're all doing stuffthat we used to do together, and it sort of makes you think about what it would be like to get home. I think I'm quite looking forward to going home now.

Todd: OK, could you, this is very interesting. Could you describe your boyfriend? Like what kind of person is he? How did you meet?

Eli: We actually met in a club which he runs. He has two jobs. He runs a club in Bristol and he edits magazines for recycling in Bristol and Wales and writes articles about environmental recycling issues. Actually when he came to Japan, he managed to interview a few people here about it, and Japanese recycling isn't as strict as you think it is, um, yeah, but we met in his club and he is a friend of my brothers and we knew a lot of the same people, but it's cheesy to say but almost it was love at first site. I t took about half a year for us to get together, but we were sort of good friends before that and we've been together for two and a half years now. (That's a long time.) It's not really though. It's just zoomed by so quickly. Yeah, we live together now in England and sort of very happy. We never, we're one of these couples that never argue. We obviously have disagreements but there's never any sort of shouting involved. We like a lot of the same things. We like lots of different things as well. I think it's very important. You can't only be into the same things. I'm slowly turning his mind towards anime and computer games. I'm twisting, twisting him, but I do have to make it clear when any Final Fantasy games are out, that I have two boyfriends and he is only one of them.

Todd: Wow. He sounds like a really interesting guy.

1 missing

adj.遺失的，缺少的，失蹤的

參考例句：

Check the tools and see if anything is missing.檢點一下工具，看有無丟失。

All the others are here;he's the only one missing.別人都來了，就短他一個。

2 stuff

n.原料，材料，東西;vt.填滿;吃飽

參考例句：

We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我們可以供應(yīng)你原材料。

He is not the stuff.他不是這個材料。

3 edits

編輯( edit的第三人稱單數(shù) ); 剪輯(電影、錄音磁帶、無線電或電視節(jié)目、書等); 主編(報紙、雜志等)

參考例句：

He edits the literary journal, Murmur. 他編輯了《私語》這本文學(xué)雜志。

She edits the file and verifies that her change is correct. 她編輯這個文件并且驗證她的變更是否正確。

4 Wales

n.威爾士(在大不列顛島西南部)

參考例句：

The company are opening up a new factory in Wales.公司將在威爾士開一家新工廠。

She teaches English at the University of Wales.她在威爾士大學(xué)教英語。

5 environmental

adj.環(huán)境的

參考例句：

A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一個全球環(huán)境會議將在這里舉行。

We need to cure our environmental problems.我們需要解決環(huán)境問題。

6 issues

(水等的)流出( issue的名詞復(fù)數(shù) ); 出口; 放出; (特別重要或大眾關(guān)注的)問題

參考例句：

Let's start with the more easily addressable issues. 我們先從較容易處理的問題著手。

Employment and taxation are the bread-and-butter issues of politics. 就業(yè)和征稅是很重要的政治問題。

7 zoomed

v.(飛機、汽車等)急速移動( zoom的過去式 );(價格、費用等)急升，猛漲

參考例句：

Traffic zoomed past us. 車輛從我們身邊疾馳而過。

Cars zoomed helter-skelter, honking belligerently. 大街上來往車輛穿梭不停，喇叭聲刺耳。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

8 obviously

adv.顯然;明白地

參考例句：

Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.顯然他們是在給他以嚴峻的考驗。

Obviously he was lying.顯然他是在撒謊。

9 disagreements

n.分歧，意見不合( disagreement的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )

參考例句：

Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground. 盡管我們存在分歧，但仍能找到一些共同點。

These disagreements are symptomatic of the tensions within the party. 出現(xiàn)意見分歧表明該黨內(nèi)部的關(guān)系緊張。

10 twisting

n.翹曲，扭曲v.扭，搓，纏繞( twist的現(xiàn)在分詞 )adj.纏繞的;曲折的;轉(zhuǎn)動的

參考例句：

The old peasant is twisting pieces of straw into a rope. 這位老農(nóng)民正把稻草搓成繩子。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

Those children have been twisting the wreath off again. 那些孩子又把花冠扭了下來。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

11 fantasy

n.幻想，白日夢

參考例句：

Your husband is living in a world of fantasy.你丈夫正生活在一個虛幻世界。

The whole story is a fantasy.整個故事只是一個虛構(gòu)。