Good morning , my buddies. I am Juliet and I am glad to meet you via network. I will receive a group of ballet dancers from America so I'm sorry to day that I haven't much time to share more with you. Today I won't beat around the bush and get down to today's five-minute programme. Still , I am hoping that you would spend a wonderful morning with me together.

大家早上好，我是JULIET， 很高兴又和大家在空中见面了。今天由于我要接待来自英国的芭蕾舞舞蹈家们，时间比较紧，今早就不多说了，直接进入我们5分钟的早间节目，希望能和大家在此度过一个美好的清晨。

This morning I would like to talk about a type of female who hasn't been married and can support herself on her own, not depend on others. What's it? Let's listen to a simple situational dialogue and you can get the answer.

A : Do you know Sally?
B : Sally? She's a bachelor girl. She's an excellent designer. Many of the company advertisements are her child trains.
A: Why is she still single? She must have a face that would stop a clock.
B : oh, it's quite the other way round. She is a knock-out. She devotes much of his time to her career.

【精彩点拨】
Now have you found it ?【Juliet,is it a bachelor girl?】yeah , Lucy , you are smart as a whip. Right , it is " a bachelor girl". Bachelor 意思是“未婚男人”，也就是我们所说的“单身汉”，但是当与girl连用时就转指女人了, 而且是指“不依靠别人自己维持生活的女人”，类式于我们中文里说的“女强人”。

【juliet， 你说了这么多，可是这个对话我还是看不懂了。】all right, don't worry about it . Let's come to the dialogue study . Please write down the key phrases while listening to the recording.

A : Do you know Sally?
B : Sally? She's a bachelor girl. She's an excellent designer. Many of the company advertisements are her child trains.
A: Why is she still single? She must have a face that would stop a clock.
B : oh, it's quite the other way round. She is a knock-out. She devotes much of his time to her career.

Now , have you done? 【Juliet，I catch few and I can hardly catch the general contents of it. I just write down the following phrases:an excellent designer/ company advertisements/ have a face/career】Lucy , you have done a good job. It doesn't matter because there are many American slangs in the conversation. Lucy , 你已经做的很好了，关键的短语抓住了一些，你没抓住的是这个对话里的俚语和一些固定短语。And now I will give you explanations to them.

【俚语讲解】
1 "One's child train" means one's classical work. 中文意思是：杰作。

2 "Stop a clock" means "to be ugly" . 意思是：土里土气的，丑的。

3 knock-out 原来的形式是 knock out, 是作为动词用，意思是使某人昏迷，For example: The drug knocked him out. 麻醉毒品使他昏迷了。 但现在用一个符号吧两个单词连接起来了，就用做形容词或者是名词。As for a noun, it means "a person who is extremely pretty or handsome and make everybody love her/him ."就是我们中文所说的“美女”或者是“俊男”了. when it is used as an adjective, it means "excellent, wonderful ,and so on . "就其原意“使昏倒”，我们可想到一个人让你神魂颠倒的，是不是被他给迷住了，昏迷在他的石榴裙下。There is a phrase which is similar to it. It is "turn-on" 可以做名词也可以做形容词. It means a person or something make you excited and interesting. For example : English is my turn-on. 意思是我对英语感兴趣。

【Juliet , so many slangs in the dialogue, I've got it but I'm an English beginner. I still cannot catch the whole dialogue completely.】okay, let's go on , Lucy.

A : Do you know Sally?
B : Sally? She's a bachelor girl. She's an excellent designer. Many of the company advertisements are her child trains.
A: Why is she still single? She must have a face that would stop a clock.
B : oh, it's quite the other way round. She is a knock-out. She devotes much of his time to her career.

【关键句子讲解】
1 She's a bachelor girl.
他是个未婚职业妇女。

2 She's an excellent designer。
他是一个很棒的设计师。

3 Many of the company advertisements are her child trains.
公司的许多广告都是她的杰作。

4 She must have a face that would stop a clock.
"Sb has a face that would stop a clock." which is a slang which means "as ugly as sin so that everybody thinks he looks like a perfect fright. 意思是他奇丑无比。

5 It's quite the other way round.
It means "It is quite the reverse" . We have another expression which is : The boot's on the other foot.意思是正好相反。

6 She devotes much of his time to her career.
她太注重事业了。

这里注意 devote 的用法，devotes是“献身于；专注于”的意思，通常有个to和它连用，在这里，devote sometime to something, 是把时间专注于某事上。For example: Please devote more time to your work. 请把更多的时间用于工。

【LUCY , now have you got the whole points in the dialogue?】【YA, thank you for your particular explanations and I've gained much this morning.】

All right , everybody , your acquisition is my happiness and consolation, okay, it is time to say goodbye to you , thank you for your listening this time, see you next time.

好，大家的收获就是我的快乐与慰藉。又要跟大家说再见了，欢迎您的这次收听，下次再会。

【学以致用】

1 她是绝世的美女，身材惹火，简直就是我的梦中情人。

2 珍妮特，我什么时候能看见你的新男友?听说他是个迷死人的美男子。

3 那舞蹈表演非常令人兴奋;我们已经看过很多次了。

4 他开始研究生态学,并决心将他的一生献身于这门学科。

5 请把更多的时间用于工作。

【习题答案】

1 She is gorgeous, a total knock-out, with a killer body; she's just my dream girl.

2 Janet, when can I meet your new boyfriend? I hear he's a real knock-out.

3 I will try a knock-out hairdo on you.

4 The dance show was a real turn-on; we went back several times.

5 He started to study ecology and decided to devote his whole life to the science.

6 Please devote more time to your work.