英語聽力練習－《銀河系漫遊指南》English Listening Practise - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Don't Panic!

今天我正在讀道格拉斯·亞當斯所著的非常著名的《銀河系漫遊指南》中的一段。當我教學時，我經常說「不要驚慌！」這原本是這本書中的一個流行文化參考。 這本書最初是作為 BBC 的廣播節目製作的。也許只是為了音效而去看看也是值得的，這在當時是 BBC 最昂貴的！ Today I'm reading a section from the very famous Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams. So often, when I'm teaching, I say 'Don't Panic!' This originally was a pop culture reference, from this book. This book was originally made as a BBC radio show. It might be worth checking it out just for the sound effects, which were the most expensive in the BBC at the time! You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnOdAqe8beU Our section starts at 12:31. Alien language (you'll never need to know again!) Dentrassi - a species of alien that is known to be a good chef and drinks mixer Vogon - a species of alien that is very mean, rude and obnoxious and won't help anyone - very bad poets Sqornshellous Zeta - a planet that has swamps where the mattresses are grown Vogon Constructor Fleet - the ships that demolished Earth, they build and destroy planets. Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal - a space monster Altairian Dollar - international common currency Teaser - rich kid who plays tricks on planets that haven't travelled to space yet (only works for this book...well all this vocabulary only works for this book!) Betelgeuse - the planet where Ford Prefect is from (Ford Prefect is the name he took when he came to Earth because he thought it was the most common name...he didn't realise cars weren't the sentient creatures on the planet.) Babel Fish - the fish Ford puts in Arthur's ear is a Babel Fish. This fish is able to allow the user to understand any language in the universe.