Lesson 29 Taxi!

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

?k?pt?n b?n ?f?s?t h?z bɑt ?n ?n?ju??u?l ?t?ksi ?nd h?z b??g?n ? nu ?s?rv?s.

e? ?t?ksi ?z ? sm?l sw?s ?er??plān k?ld ?pi?le?t?s ?p?rt?r.

e?s ?w?nd?rf?l ple?n k?n ?k?ri ?s?v?n ?p?s?n??rz.

e? mo?st s?r?pra?z?? θ?? ??ba?t ?t, ?ha???v?r, ?z e?t ?tk?n l?nd ??ni?w?r: ɑn sno?, ?w?t?r, ?r ?iv?n ɑn ? pla?d fild.

?k?pt?n ?f?s?ts f?rst ?p?s?n??r w?z ? ?dɑkt?r hu flu fr?m?b?rm???h?m tu ? ?lo?nli ?v?l?? ?n e? w?l? ?ma?nt?nz.? s?ns e?n, ?k?pt?n ?f?s?t h?z flo?n ?p?s?n??rz tu ?m?ni ?n?ju??u?l?ple?s?z.

w?ns hi ?l?nd?d ɑn e? ruf ?v ? blɑk ?v fl?ts ?nd ɑn ??n?e?r ??ke???n, hi ?l?nd?d ?n ? d??z?rt?d kɑr pɑrk. ?k?pt?n?f?s?t h?z ??st r??fjuzd ? stre?n? r??kw?st fr?m ? ?b?zn??sm?n. e? m?n ?wɑnt?d tu fla? tu Rockall, ? ?lo?nli ?a?l?nd ?n ei?t?l?nt?k ?o???n, b?t ?k?pt?n ?f?s?t d?d nɑt te?k h?m b??k?z e? tr?p w?z tu ?de?n??r?s.

任務(wù)配置：L0+L1+L4

land

plough (BrE) 美式英語寫法是plow

n. 犁；

the Plough (NmA) the Big Digger北斗七星；大熊星座

under the plough (BrE formal) of land

used for growing crops, not for keeping animals on 用于耕作的；作農(nóng)田的

v. to dig and turn over a field or other area of land with a plough

ploughed field 犁過的田地

plow a lone/ a lonely/ your own/ furrow literary phrase

to be the only person doing something or interested in somehting

furrows

phrasal verb:

1. plough ahead: to continue to do something that may involve problems or that other people are opposing.

Their decision to plough ahead before safety checks had been made was strongly criticized.

2. plough back: to put any profits made by a business back into it in order to make it more successful.

All the money we raise is ploughed back into our work.

3. plough into:? a. to crash into someone or something with force, especially because you are moving or driving too quickly or in a careless or uncontrolled way

Luckily no one was hurt when their car ploughed into a tree.

b. to invest a lot of money in something in order to improve it or make it successful

Last year the government ploughed more than 80 millions into road repair.

4. plough on: to continue doing something that takes a lot of effort or i likely to cause you problems.堅持做，繼續(xù)進(jìn)行艱難或乏味的事；苦撐

5. plough your way through sth.

a. to force a way through sth. 費勁地穿越或者通過

She ploughed her way through the waiting crowds.

b. of a vehicle or an aircraft to go violently through sth, out of control 猛沖的；失控地穿過

The plane ploughed through the trees.

c. to make slow progress through sth difficult or boring especially a book, a report, etc. 艱難地進(jìn)行，緩慢地推進(jìn)（尤指讀書，做報告等）；埋頭苦干

練習(xí)感悟：

今天因為其他的事情，讓我覺得自己花了太多了時間在學(xué)習(xí)英語上，其它事情都沒有空理會，實在不應(yīng)該。

所以，今天的朗讀，真的心不在焉了，沒有辦法靜下來好好朗讀，要注意，明天就30天了，給自己加油！