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Exercise 练一练

1. What is a bad hair day?

a) a day when your hair is a mess

b) a day when everything goes well

c) a day when everything goes wrong

2. What 5 things happened to Nina on her bad hair day?

Script 读一读

You’re listening to British Council’s English Online and I’m Nina.
您现在收听的是英国领事馆英语在线栏目，我是尼娜。

Today on Language Snacks we take a look at the expression bad hair. Let’s listen to the dialogue.
今天的语言小点心呢我们来学习bad hair 这个短语，一起来听下下面这段对话。

A: What’s the matter Sam? You look upset.
A：Sam，怎么了？你看起来不开心啊。

B: Oh, it’s nothing, I’m just having a bad hair day – everything’s going wrong.
B：呵，没什么，我只是今天心情不大好，觉得什么事情都不对劲。

Do you ever have days when nothing seems to be going right? Well, I’m sure you do - in English you can call this a bad hair day.
你是否也有过觉得什么事情都不对劲的时候？我想你肯定有过，英语里可以说这是a bad hair day，坏发型日。

Anyway, this morning I overslept, then I was late for work and missed an important meeting, then I left my mobile phone in the restaurant at lunchtime and just before I spilt coffee on my new skirt – this is a real bad hair day!
总之，今天早上我睡过头，上班迟到，错过一场重要的会议，午饭时间把手机落在餐馆里，这之前我还把咖啡弄洒在我新买的衬衫上，唉，真是糟糕的一天。

And that’s it for now – join us again for some more Language Snacks
好了，今天的节目就到这里，欢迎大家继续关注下期语言小点心。

You’ve been listening to English Online – the podcast for English learners in China.
您正在收听的是英语在线，中国英语学习者的英语学习播客。

Key 参考答案

1. c) a day when everything goes wrong

2. She overslept, was late for work, missed an important meeting, left her mobile phone in the restaurant at lunch time and then spilt coffee on her new skirt.

你答对了吗？把每天的习语记下来，和Brits聊天时可以用得上哦。

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