英語趣味課堂： 不愉快的驚喜 unpleasant surprise

Todd: So, how was your trip to Thailand?

Gloria: Oh, I spent about six weeks in Thailand and had a really, really great time. I spent three weeks in Northern Thailand and then three weeks on the beach in the southern part of Thailand but my last night I was packing up and I had a suitcase in the corner with the warm clothes from Northern Thailand and I saw something dark in the corner, and I'm thinking," Oh, it's just some clothes that fell out of my suitcase so I reach out to grab the clothes and something dark rose up and spread out and it was the weirdest feeling because at the same time I felt like a hand grab me from behind and yanked me out of the cabin and I didn't feel any fear until I was in the middle of the clearing and I screamed twice, and got everybody's attention, "What? What? What?" and I said "snake" and of course a few people started laughing, thinking,

"Oh, well, this little bitty green, harmless snake" Ah, no big deal. So one of the little bitty Thai girls, walks into my cabin and she comes running out, "Ah, snake!" and so it was a black king cobra, which is the most poisonous snake in the world, and this is really kind of scary because my little brother had been killed by a snake and so it's frightening to me to think how close I came. After I left Thailand, two things happened: I found some photographs in which in the photographs that I took of my cabin you could see the snake crawling into my cabin and the other one is an e-mail from the owners of the resort that they found two more cobras underneath my bed.

Todd: Wow, oh man! So normally do they have king cobras on that part of the island?

Gloria: No, they don't. They say they may come in when they transport, the building, they're making a lot of new buildings so they brought in wood from Northern Thailand and maybe it came in there. Also the envirorment's being upset and they're chopping down a lot of trees, and they're finding more and more snakes that they didn't know were there.

Todd: Wow, well, you're very lucky.

Gloria: Yeah, I've been told that!

學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容：

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

reached out

I reached out to grab the clothes, and something dark rose up and spread out.

When you 'reach out' you extend your hand in front of you to touch something. Notice the following:

I reached out my hand to pay the woman.

The man reached out to stop her from crossing the street.

weirdest feeling

It was the weirdest feeling.

A 'weird1 feeling' is strange or unusual sensation, something that you are not used to. Notice the following:

It was the weirdest feeling to know I didn't have a job or a house and that I was moving to a new country.

Getting stitches is one of the weirdest feelings ever.

yank out

I felt like a hand grabbed me from behind and yanked me out of the cabin.

If you 'yank something out' of a place you grab it and pull it away quickly. Notice the following:

I didn't want to yank the gum out of my hair because I knew that it would hurt.

Just when I thought the movie couldn't get worse the man yanked out a gun.

how close I came

It's frightening to me to think how close I came.

We can use the phrase 'how close I came' to talk about physical closeness or distance to something. We can also use it to refer to something that could have easily happened. In this case, Gloria was both physically close to the snake and something terrible could have happened. Notice the following:

It's incredible how close she came to getting all A's.

I can't believe how close I came to hitting that tree.

transport

The snakes might have come in when they transported wood.

When you 'transport' something you move it from one place to another. Notice the following:

We will send a taxi to transport you from the airport to your hotel.

All of these fruits were transported from the northern part of the country.

1 weird

adj.古怪的，離奇的;怪誕的，神秘而可怕的

參考例句：

From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.從他不尋常的行為看來，他好像有點(diǎn)怪。

His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳簡直笑死人。

2 weirdest

怪誕的( weird的最高級 ); 神秘而可怕的; 超然的; 古怪的

參考例句：

Think of the weirdest, craziest shit you'd like to see chicks do. 想想這最怪異，最瘋狂的屁事。你會喜歡看這些雞巴表演的。

It's still the weirdest damn sound I ever heard out of a Jersey boy. 這是我所聽過新澤西人最為怪異的音調(diào)了。

3 underneath

adj.在...下面，在...底下;adv.在下面

參考例句：

Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽車底下工作是件臟活。

She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿著一件大衣，里面套著一條連衣裙。

4 physically

adj.物質(zhì)上，體格上，身體上，按自然規(guī)律

參考例句：

He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他渾身不舒服，心緒也很亂。

Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到極惡心。