新东方老师的词汇口诀

安排了一个约

会

(appointment)

。

[

注

]appointment

一般指正式的约会，这里为了编故事才这样记。这样的约会应该用

engag ement

。

狡猾的老俞

conceive

：设想

perceive

：察觉

receive

：接受

老俞说明天是妈妈的受难日，

（这是 他设想

conceive

的一个阴谋）

，聪明的新东方老师察觉

perceive

出来了，第二天 都送给老俞礼物，老俞很欣然的接受

receive

了，阴谋得逞了。

Tantalus was the rich and mighty king of Lydia

．

Son of Zeus by a fairy maiden

，

he was greatly favored by the gods

．

He was invited to share wine and food with them at their ban

quets

，

and he was let into their secrets

．

But ever the latter end of joy is woe

．

Either because he had sto

len wine or gave away the secrets of Zeus

，

or because he had become so proud as to test the gods by serving up the flesh of his son Pelops to t

hem

，

he incurred the wrath of Zeus and was hurled down to the everlasting darkness of tartarus

．

There

he was made to stand up to his chin in a little lake

，

with clusters of luscious fruits hanging over and around his head

．

He strove eternally to drink the

ever-evading water and to clutch at the delicious fruits which were ever tossed out of his reach by

blasts of wind

．

Thus he was doomed to endure endless burning thirst and bitter hunger in the wor

ld of the shades

．

The whole occurrence has given rise to the

expression“tantal izing”

，

meaning something in plain view but unattainable

．

坦塔罗 斯是罗底亚富有而又强大的国王。

他是宙斯和一位仙女的儿子，

深受众神喜爱。

众神

请他参加宴会，

与 他们共享美酒与美食，

并且还让他了解他们的秘密。

然而乐极生 悲。

或许

是他偷了美酒、

或者泄露了宙 斯的秘密、

或许是他太骄傲以至于献上自己儿子珀罗普斯的肉

来 检验神的智慧，

他招致了宙斯的愤怒，

被打入了永远黑暗的地狱 中。

在那里他被迫站定于

一小湖中，

水 没至下颌，

无数甜美的水果悬于头顶和四周。他从不间歇地努力喝水，但水总

他试图抓住那些美味的水果，

但总 是被阵阵来风吹离，

使他无法得到。

因而

他注定要在阴间遭受炙渴和难以忍受的饥饿。

“tantalizing”

却无法得到的某个东西。

< br>

：回声

；< /p>

narcissus

：水仙

Narcissus was a handsome youth

．

His lovely face and graceful form were the admiration of all w

ho looked upon him

．

And he knew it

．

He was proud that he thought no one but himself was wor

thy to see his youthful beauty

．

Thus given up tosweet thoughts of self

，

narcissus avoided all company

．

Heroamed the wooded little valleys every day

，

madly in love withhimself

．

When he was delightfully wandering through the woods oneday

，

a wood fairy maiden

，

echo by name

，

caught sight of him

．

She was excited at once

．

joyfully coming down towards narcissus

，

she stretched out her loving arms

．

To her dismay

，

however

，

the young man roughly brushed her aside and went by without so much as a glance at her

．

The po

or fairy maiden''s face turned red and quickly withdrew to a shady spot

，

following the object of her love with her longing eyes

．

Presently narcissus stopped to drink from a little stream

．

Kneeling down on the bank

，

he saw a lovely face in the clear water

．

his heart gave a beat

．

He smiled and was smiled back to

．

Thinking that it must be a maiden in love with him

，

he bent down to kiss her

．

And her lips also drew near his

．

But as soon a she touched the clear su

rface the lovely face disappeared

．

The angry youth was now desperate

．

Never had he been looke

d downupon like that before

．

Day and night

，

he stayed at the stream without drinking and eating

．

Before long he died

，

never suspecting that his maiden was just his own image in the stream

．

the gods took pity on the f

air dead body and turned it into a flower bearing his name

．

The intoxicated echo saw all this

．

Slowly she became weak for despised love

，

until at last nothing remained of her except her voice

．

回声和那西塞斯

< br>那西塞斯是一位英俊的青年，面容可爱，

体形优美。

他深 信，他的容貌会使每个见到他的人

羡慕不已。

他很骄傲，

认为除了自己之外，

别人都不配欣赏他那充满青春气息的面庞。

因而，

他沉溺于甜美的自我欣赏之中，

远离所 有的人，

在苍翠蓊郁的小山谷中终日闲逛，

他成了一

一天，< /p>

那西塞斯在树林中愉快地游荡。

一位名叫回声的仙女一看见他就兴 奋起来；

她伸出爱

的双臂，高兴地走向那西塞斯。然而，令她惊 愕的是，这位青年粗暴地将她推开，连看都不

看她一眼就走开了。

这位可怜的仙女羞红了脸，

迅速退到遮阴处，

含情脉脉地凝望 着心上人。

不久，

那西塞斯来到一条小溪边饮水。

当他跪在岸边时，

他发 现清澈的溪水中有一张非常可

爱的面庞。他非常激动，并对着水中的人微笑，水中人也给 了他一个微笑。他认为，一定是

一位仙女爱上了他。于是，他就蹲下去吻她，她的嘴唇也 向他靠拢。但是，当他的嘴唇一接

触清澈的溪水，

水中那张可爱 的脸就消失了。

这位恼怒的青年人此时变得绝望了，

他从未被< /p>

人如此鄙视过。

他日夜呆在溪边，不吃不喝，

不久就死了。他从未怀疑过水中的女子只是自