时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2011年


英语课

 -You know it's amazing because you learn so much about your family, I mean, you went 200 years back on my mother side and 200 years back on my father side and I just found out things I didn't know at all and one of the things it also tells you, you know, distant cousins that you're related to who are, you know, well-known, and, and you know I, I  found I'm related to, ah, Nixon. He did some good things.


-But...
-And ah...
-But let me interrupt you. I don't know anything about this. 
-OK.
-But,but, first of all, how does he trace this back to Richard Nixon?
-Well, well, he literally 1, he literally do like a cheek swab.
-Also it's DNA 2.
-It's DNA as well as just they have genealogists who actually go back and they look, they find pieces of, of real, you know, like sensors 3 and...
-And did they do a cheek swab on President Nixon?
-I don't know, I don't know.
-See, it's fascinating ,but is there a commercial on, on TV where a guy comes on and he says “Oh, I was skeptical 4 and then I typed in my thing on my deal, and turns out my grandparents lived next door to the right brothers were .Who forgot to tell me that , and I'm screaming :' No, they didn't live next to their right brothers. It's a lie. It's a scam'". How about, how about? But you're related to Richard Nixon in the sense that all humans are related. Is that pretty much what it is ?
-No, no apparently 5 we're just in cousins.
-Just in cousins. 
-As well as Jimmy Carder, Marilyn Monroe, I can see they are resemble.
-Yeah.
-And Kevin Bacon. 
-You're related to your husband. How are you related to your husband.
-Tenth cousin once has removed. It was a little upsetting. I'm not gonna lie.
-Yeah, I'm very skeptical at this. I just, I mean, I don't know. I bet I would go in there and I bet I'm related to those same people.
-But it was on PBS. You have to believe PBS.

1 literally
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
2 DNA
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
  • DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
  • Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
3 sensors
n.传感器,灵敏元件( sensor的名词复数 )
  • There were more than 2000 sensors here. 这里装有两千多个灵敏元件。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Significant changes have been noted where sensors were exposed to trichloride. 当传感器暴露在三氯化物中时,有很大变化。 来自辞典例句
4 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
5 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
学英语单词
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acquaintanceships
analogue multiplexer
anchored contact mine
Arequito
augmenting principle
azygos principle
baseband data network
bay-leaved caper
be gassed
bearer service
bed-and-breakfasting
bingo wings
boundary network node
bus-control unit
by-product circuit
cape forget-me-nots
cardioselectivity
cholesteric phase
chromatographic ion analyzer
collective effervescence
corfing
cornal
corporate arrangement and reorganization
cut-sheet printer
cwdc
deep ligaments of tarsus
Department of Commerce and Labor
design power
dvd tv computer
dynamic world
ecological plant anatomy
ecophysiologically
edge-weld
enhoril
female mammal
Fistucacidin
fitzcarraldo
genus anthidiums
genus galictiss
harmonic figuration
harpoons and spears
hexagon nut
hydraulic power steering system
ill-conceived
in-phase spring rate
inclination of planetary orbits
inscribed securities
integrated data system
know the ropes
labits
largea
leave for enforcement
linear retardation
make bad weather
mal de mers
Meerdorf
micrococcus casei amari
moment of silence
mumblers
paddy field soil
parts storage system
Phlyctenar
pivoted engine
place an order for sth. with
Poa nemoralis
polyalkenes
postmeal
prominentia laryngea
pseudo-amitosis
pseudo-unipolar neuron
pulse echo ultrasonics
pyroxene ariegite
radio marker beacon station
read-out value
rinsing vat
sharp hypothesis
sharp-built vessel
Shughnis
Streptomyces purpuresceus
syphilis of testis
Tadjoura, G.de
tall-poppy syndrome
tandem working
telemak
telepointer
tendinous osteoma
terms of dealing
thiatriazoline
tillek
twenty-five to
twenty-one (21) cm radiation
uk -ese
under-record
uridylate
villequiers
window-down
windrush
womanisings
wozen
zwolffingerdarm