聽基礎(chǔ)單詞,練聽力第12期:一群青蛙的"competition"
【今日基礎(chǔ)詞】Competition
【Transcript】
Once upon a time, there was a crowd of frogs which were going to have a climbing competition, and the destination of which being the top of an extraordinarily high steel tower. A host of frogs were surrounding the steel tower, watching the competition and cheering for the competitors. At the beginning of the competition, frankly speaking, nearly no audience frogs believed that these little frogs could arrive at the top.
They were talking about like this, “It is too difficult to reach the top! They surely can not arrive at the top! They can not be successful, because the tower is too high to climb!”
After receiving those messages, frogs began to lose heart from one to another, and only a few passionate frogs were still climbing.
However, the audience frogs still kept shouting, “It is too difficult and no one could reach the top!”
More and more frogs became tired and quitted from the competition. Nonetheless, there was a frog still climbing higher and higher, which had no sense of giving up.
It tried very hard and finally became the only winner who arrived at the top. One frog ran to ask the winner where the strength came from during the whole competition.
He then finally found out that this frog was totally a deaf!
【注】extraordinarily ad. 非常地;frankly speaking 老實(shí)說(shuō)
【Translation】
從前，有一群青蛙，組織了一場(chǎng)攀爬比賽，比賽的終點(diǎn)是一座非常高的鐵塔的塔尖。一大群青蛙圍著鐵塔看比賽，給他們加油。
比賽開始了，老實(shí)說(shuō)，群蛙中沒(méi)有誰(shuí)相信這些小小的青蛙會(huì)到達(dá)塔頂，他們都在議論：“這太難了!他們肯定到不了塔頂!他們絕不可能成功的，塔太高了!”
聽到這些，一只又一只的青蛙開始泄氣了，只有情緒高漲的幾只還在往上爬。群蛙繼續(xù)喊著：“這太難了!沒(méi)有誰(shuí)能爬上頂?shù)?”越來(lái)越多的青蛙累壞了，退出了比賽。但有一只卻越爬越高，一點(diǎn)沒(méi)有放棄的意思。
最后，它費(fèi)了很大的勁，終于成為唯一一只到達(dá)塔頂?shù)膭倮?。一只青蛙跑上前去?wèn)勝利者它哪來(lái)那么大的力氣跑完全程。結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)這只青蛙是個(gè)聾子
【Competition】
competition n. ①比賽 ②競(jìng)爭(zhēng)
例：Because there is so much unemployment, the competition for jobs is fierce.
由于失業(yè)人數(shù)過(guò)多，職業(yè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)十分激烈。
搭配：in competition with 和……競(jìng)爭(zhēng)：
We are in competition with 4 other companies for the contract.
我們?cè)谂c其他四家公司競(jìng)爭(zhēng)這項(xiàng)合同。
拓展：compete v. 競(jìng)爭(zhēng)
