BBC初级口语:鬼魂出卖Ghosts for Sale
Background: 互联网给人们生活带来的巨大影响力之一是它为我们提供了网上交易的所有可能。新西兰的一名女子就刚刚在网上拍卖了两个鬼魂.
【文本】
As ghost stories go, it's frankly a bit weak. Not very frightening and with a happy ending, it doesn't really prove the existence of the supernatural either.
But it does show beautifully the enduring popularity of the offbeat and wacky on the internet.
Our tale begins in the home of Avie Woodbury in Christchurch, on New Zealand's South Island. Last year, she says, things started to go bump in the night:
"We had a lot of activity. Mainly it was banging, banging in the house. And also I think the biggest thing for us was that our dog would sort of stop in its tracks and it would just look into nothing and then start barking. And this happened several times and we just got a real weird feeling over us. Just so odd that you just can't explain it."
The novelty soon wore off and Miss Woodbury hired an exorcist to rid her of the spooky interlopers.
A paranormal specialist from the local spiritualist church duly came and captured two ghosts, which he claimed to have trapped in a pair of small glass vials.
The funny goings on promptly stopped, leaving a greatly relieved Miss Woodbury with just one problem - what to do with the spirits and their tiny prisons. Rather than throw them in the bin she decided to sell them online to the highest bidder.
"Early on in the auction it got a bid for $1.50 and I said to my partner, 'Oh how wonderful, we've got rid of the spirits', you know, and we were quite happy to have $1.50 for them. And we never thought it would get so much publicity and so many people viewing the auction, so just incredible."
With its obvious parallels to the 1980s film Ghostbusters, news of the sale quickly spread - and the online auction was viewed 214,000 times. The ghosts were finally sold for nearly $2000 US dollars, which Miss Woodbury intends to donate to an animal charity.
【口语突破】
frankly
坦诚地
supernatural
超自然的
enduring popularity
持久的红火
offbeat
非主流
wacky
奇异的/奇怪的
go bump in the night
夜里（开始）有鬼了
banging
咚咚的响声
stop in its tracks
停在路上不走了
barking
狗叫
novelty
新颖的事务
wore off
逐渐淡化
exorcist
驱魔人人/昭魂者
spooky interlopers
令人害怕的干涉他人事务的人
paranormal
超自然的
duly
预期地
vials
小玻璃瓶
parallels
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n. 搭档，伙伴，合伙人
v. 同 ... 合
part部分+ner人→合作伙伴 publicity[pʌb'lisiti]
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n. 公众的注意，宣传，宣扬，宣传品，广告
联想记忆X单词publicity联想记忆：public人民+ity→公开；宣传 donate['dəuneit]
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vt. 捐赠，转移(电子)
vi. 捐款
don给予+ate→给出去→捐赠 obvious['ɔbviəs]
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adj. 明显的，显然的
联想记忆X单词obvious联想记忆：ob加强状态+vi道路+ous→就在路上→明显的 popularity[.pɔpju'læriti]
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n. 普及，流行，名望，受欢迎
联想记忆X单词popularity联想记忆：popular流行+ity→大众性；流行 charity['tʃæriti]
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n. 慈善，慈善机关(团体), 仁慈，宽厚
联想记忆X单词charity联想记忆：char茶，ity状态－请喝茶的状态－施舍－仁慈 supernatural[:pə'nætʃərəl]
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adj. 超自然的，神奇的
联想记忆X单词supernatural联想记忆：super超级，超过，过度+natural自然的→超自然的 bin[bin]
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n. 箱柜，[计] DOS文件名， 二进制目标文件
bin读：殡。出殡－需要一个大箱子－装死人。
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v. 伸展，展开，传播，散布，铺开，涂撒
n.
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n. 新奇，新奇的事物，小装饰
联想记忆X单词novelty联想记忆：novel新的+ty表名词，用在形容词后，把形容词变成名词→新奇
