口语

  • gamers, gaming（游戏玩家，玩游戏）
  • amid（在…过程中、在…中）
  • strobe lights（频闪灯光、闪烁的灯光）
  • competitive（竞争性的、竞技的）
  • booming（繁荣的、急速发展的）
  • tune in（收看、收听）
  • streaming service（流媒体服务）
  • to stage（上演、举办、组织）
  • to lure（吸引、诱惑、引诱）
  • to nurture（培养、养育、支持）
  • avid（热衷的、酷爱的）
  • tournament（锦标赛、联赛、比赛）
  • sponsor（主办、举办、赞助）
  • maladjusted（适应不良的、不适应环境的）
  • console（安慰、抚慰）

Gamers of the world, unite: eSports
America’s largest eSports facility opens tomorrow in Arlington, Texas. It will hold up to 2,500 video-gamers, who will gather to watch each other compete amid strobe lights, LED screens and thundering music. E-sports—as competitive gaming is known—are booming, on track to generate $906m in revenue worldwide this year, up 38% from 2017. Most fans tune into matches online: Twitch, a streaming service owned by Amazon, counts 140m viewers per month. But increasingly firms are staging live events, lured by ticket sales and the chance to nurture an avid fanbase. There have been 45 big tournaments so far this year. In other ways, too, competitive gaming looks like professional sports of the analogue kind, with leagues, sponsors and multi-million-dollar prizes on offer. Most people still think of gamers as maladjusted teens who hole up for hours in the dark, alone but for their consoles. Turns out they like each other’s company.

  • Most people still think of gamers as maladjusted teens who hole up for hours in the dark, alone but for their consoles.
    大多数人仍然认为游戏玩家是不适应环境的青少年，他们独自在黑暗中玩几个小时，心里只有游戏机。
    • They play alone in the dark but for their consoles. 他们独自在黑暗中玩游戏，心里只有游戏机。

新概念 2 L23 A new house 新居

词汇

  • complete vt. 完成 = finsih
    • The building will be completed in 2 years.
    • complete the course
  • modern a. 当代的；现代的
    • the modern history
    • the modern times
    • the modern dance
    • ancient 古代的.
    • 时髦的，最新式的
      modern hairstyle
    • 传统的 traditional
  • strange a.
    • 陌生的
      a strange country
    • familiar 熟悉的
    • a stranger
    • be strange to sb.
      这个方法对我很陌生。The method is strange to me.
    • 奇怪的
      因为某个奇怪的原因，他放弃了这个比赛。
      For some strange reason, he gave up the competition.
  • district n. 地区（行政地区）
    • area
    • block n. 街区
    • zone 地区（带有某种功能的性质的，生活区、商业区）
      • parking zone
    • region 地带
      • desert region 沙漠地带

原文

（必背）

I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter, she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a surprise. We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun before my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.

参考译文：

昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亚。在信中她说她明年将到英国来。如果她来了，她会感到非常惊奇的。我们现在住在乡间的一栋漂亮的新住宅里。这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在 5 个月以前竣工的。我在信中告诉她，她可以和我们住在一起。这栋房子里有许多房间，还有一个漂亮的花园。它是一栋非常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很古怪。它肯定是这个地区唯一的一栋现代化住宅。

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