Hiroshima University's English Podcast

Download MP3 ８月の４週間は、恒例の「超濃縮！やさしい英語会話」です。この10年間に配信した310本の「やさしい英語会話」よりエピソードを厳選し、毎回４本分を濃縮してお届けします。ナチュラルスピードの会話をスクリプトとともにお楽しみください。今回は、動物や人の記憶など、科学を中心としたエピソードを集めました。 *** Script *** [ (168) Cockroaches ] Situation: A married couple in the kitchen. M: Die, die, die! Oh, God, please, just die already! W: I see you have your own special way of preparing breakfast? M: A cockroach! Huge! Under that cup. It appeared out of nowhere when I was mixing eggs and milk, and it ran straight for me! W: Why are you offering it an empty cup? Tea would do better. Or coffee! I've heard they just LOVE fresh cappuccino in the early mornings! M: Well, all I have to offer it is a good stomping, with available tableware. It took, like, 3 hits for it to stop moving. Monsters! W: I bet you missed the first two times. Cockroaches can do 25 cm per second, you know. M: It's 30, not 25. And I know when I hit something with a cup… Yaiks! It's still alive! W: This is one die-hard fella. Looks like it's two-thirds were chewed off by