时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Anton: Look at that guy. He’s been in town two weeks and he’s already throwing his money around.



Vanessa: You know as well as I do that money talks. He’s just trying to make a splash in the business community.



Anton: If that were all he was doing then I wouldn’t say anything, but he’s a social climber of the worst kind. Who does he think he is?



Vanessa: He’s someone who’s used to getting his way, that’s obvious. He’s not the first affluent 1 person to try to buy influence and social standing 2 in a community.



Anton: Yeah, but look at all of the people in this town throwing themselves at him!



Vanessa: He has donated generously to the town and given to the arts. He’s even given money toward building the new community center, and it wasn’t chump change either. If he wants to be a patron in this town, who are we to look a gift horse in the mouth?



Anton: Right, so spreading money around gives him the right to walk around like he owns this town?



Vanessa: Is this a case of sour grapes?



Anton: Ha, right! Haven’t you heard? Money is the root of all evil!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



adj.富裕的,富有的,丰富的,富饶的
  • He hails from an affluent background.他出身于一个富有的家庭。
  • His parents were very affluent.他的父母很富裕。
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
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acoustic gas analyzer
anterior surface of lids
Arab oil embargo
Ashton-under-Hill
back-to-back commitment
banner year
blast warhead
boat-hook
bottom scrapper
breath-taking
bronehotetany
business control
business regulations
Buulobarde
cacoxenite
cemental hypoplasia
chef watcher
clewe
clulow
composite boson
congruity
constant power operation
continuous malting
decidence
dog's-tongue
embroidered carpet
ethicise
eyelid coloboma
fast settling device
Filaria bancrofti
first trial
Free-Staters
fur dyeing
geographic element
Goodyera daibuzanensis
grisovin
heater press
horizontal deviation accuracy
hydrazine injection
interferons
internal service quality
interprocess communications
Kerchsteel
Khaskovo
land and water
lexical
mawiche
methenyl bromide
mistilto
motive zone
movable-sieve jig
musculature function
normal log
oleum picis rectificatum
osuan
packed slip joint
pencil of circles
plunger cooling pipe
Poa elanata
pole lamp
ponderosus
portable ammeter
racquet-tails
ramessess
range azimuth display
recoronation
red-capped green pigeon
roller retaining snap ring
sail in the same boat
saturation exposure
scuppers
seat at
self-entertaining
self-massages
semimetallic crystal
setvisualpage
Seyfert rectifier
skhl steel
slave microcomputer
slavegirls
slim blade suture needle
softly softly
spectroscopy of excited state
springboard
squiggliness
SR spirochetes
stereophaedusa horikawai
Supreme Court of Japan
tarow
top unloading unit
tourist traffic
tropo
truman doctrines
TV program
vector expression
Vena suprascapularis
venne
vongerichten
wholl
wiehl
York ham
Z-flap