地道美语听力练习:糟糕的路况

Asphalt is a black substance used to make the surfaces of things such as roads and playgrounds.

the school's asphalt driveway.学校的柏油车道

2.gravel path 砾石小径

We bumped up and down along the gravel path.

我们沿砾石小路颠簸而行。

3.swerve V-ERG（使）突然转向；（使）急转弯

If a vehicle or other moving thing swerves or if you swerve it, it suddenly changes direction, often in order to avoid hitting something.

Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.

从对面来的汽车司机急忙转向以免撞到那些尸体。

4.bargain for PHRASAL VERB预料到；估计到；考虑到

If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.

The effects of this policy were more than the government had bargained for.

这项政策带来的影响是政府始料未及的。

5.break one's fall缓和某人的跌势，防止某人跌得很重

Luckily, a bush broke his fall.

幸亏有灌木接着，他摔得不重。