时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Writing One’s Memoirs 


Oscar: We’re thrilled that you’ll be publishing your memoir 1 with our company. You’ve had such an interesting life. I’m sure you’ll have lots of titillating 2 stories to tell. 


Liz: Well, my memoir will certainly have a lot of stories about my career: the people I’ve worked with and the kindness I’ve encountered in this industry. 


Oscar: That’s nice, but people buy autobiographical books for the juicy details, the more salacious the better. 


Liz: I was really thinking of focusing on the people who helped me in my career and their selflessness. 


Oscar: But I thought you were interested in writing a tell-all book. Considering how many times you’ve been married and the affairs you’ve had, you must have lots of steamy stories. 


Liz: I don’t want to be telling tales about people I love or once loved. I want to focus on the positive. 


Oscar: You could do that, but your books won’t fly off the shelves without those juicy details. 


Liz: Really? 


Oscar: Really. 


Liz: Maybe I could tell one or two scandalous stories. 


Oscar: Now you’re talking. 


Liz: There was that infamous 3 party where a cat fight broke out between... 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 memoir
n.[pl.]回忆录,自传;记事录
  • He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.他刚刚出了一本传记来纪念他的队长。
  • In her memoir,the actress wrote about the bittersweet memories of her first love.在那个女演员的自传中,她写到了自己苦乐掺半的初恋。
2 titillating
adj.使人痒痒的; 使人激动的,令人兴奋的v.使觉得痒( titillate的现在分词 );逗引;激发;使高兴
  • Titillating the public now could help sales of Peptide 7 latet on. 现在刺激一下公众,对将来缩氨酸7号的销售可能还会有好处呢。 来自辞典例句
3 infamous
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
学英语单词
-ola
adventure
air flowmeter
airzol coffee
Anemone baicalensis
antihemorrhagic factor
Arithmin
assets leased to others
asteatotic dermatitis
ate on
basti
benzene dilodide
bite wing film
bolstereth
bruit de clapotement
calamese
cell refernce
certificate of incopocation
chaparral cock
climaxer
common score card
conarhhiamine
continuous laser
controlled resident account
depa
Diopside-jadeite
disconnecting signal
discrete field-stop aperture
earthplate
Ekibon
erection of steel work
feedback controller
femtokatals
fingerstyle
following test
functional dependency
Glentrool
half stock
hatch-clamping beam
heated-tool welding
homing feed
huenia heraldica
indurite
intercrossing
intermedin
jay-walkings
limitation of libility
Macropanax undulatus
macroscopic system
maritime supremacy
mechanical production rate
mertin
messels
miniaturized ionization chamber
MLEA
molsh
Mordvian
neo-psychedelic
new silver
occipitale laterale
open operation
overcompounded
pansori
peak of lactation
phone cards
pilgers
piston oil ring
Port of Singapore Authority
power turn-off
pressure piercing
production of pivot grammar
prussic acid
public health room
pulse front edge
quality guarantee period
reduced Grothendieck group
refuelling platform
regoliths
rehemming
remove overhead
RPG construction
sacraments
saxony wheel
schirl (schorl)
schistocerca
semicontinuous operation
Sorel-cement
spark-ignited
staggered seating
sun-hats
supernaturalness
synthetic rice
terminal call
thrombasthenic purpura
transmission diagram
USAFPEB
waste-gas cleaning
water cooled furnace body
wrung-head
Zapadnaya Dvina(Daugava)
zodiacal pyramid