Daily English Dictation 36

listening

• It’s quiet. It sounds a low ranking. It seems a long crisis here.
• It’s great. It’s um, been a little bit nerve-wracking, um, and it’s been a long process to get here.

In America: been => ben, bin long => 郎 pr<u>o</u>cess => prahcess ah

accumulation

• penguin 企鹅

• contraction 收缩；缩写 The contraction of muscles uses energy and releases heat Contractions are much more common in speech than in writing.

• possession 占有；（从属）

• nerve-wracking 令人焦虑的；使人十分紧张的 nervous，stressful，anxious

• nerve-racking 令人十分紧张的

• tedious 乏味的；冗长的；令人厌烦的；啰唆的 The journey soon became tedious. We had to listen to the tedious details of his operation.