时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:历年考研英语阅读理解


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[00:11.17]If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile,
[00:16.11]you must know how to identify
[00:18.34]shared experiences and problems.
[00:21.06]Your humor must be relevant to the audience and
[00:24.18]should help to show them that you are one of them
[00:26.81]or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy
[00:30.74]with their point of view.
[00:32.75]Depending on whom you are addressing,
[00:35.07]the problems will be different.
[00:37.38]If you are talking to a group of managers,
[00:39.61]you may refer to the disorganized methods of
[00:42.23]their secretaries;
[00:43.84]alternatively if you are addressing secretaries,
[00:47.67]you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
[00:52.21]Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention,
[00:55.94]of a story which works well because the audience all shared
[00:59.47]the same view of doctors.
[01:01.99]A man arrives in heaven
[01:03.90]and is being shown around by St.Peter.
[01:07.04]He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens,
[01:10.97]sunny weather, and so on.
[01:14.09]Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until,
[01:19.45]waiting in a line for lunch,
[01:21.78]the new arrival is suddenly pushed
[01:23.78]aside by a man in a white coat,
[01:26.09]who rushes to the head of the line,
[01:28.11]grabs his food and stomps 1 over to a table by himself.
[01:32.71]"Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter.
[01:36.24]"Oh, that's God," came the reply,
[01:39.57]"but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."
[01:43.12]If you are part of the group which you are addressing,
[01:46.14]you will be in a position to know
[01:47.91]the experiences and problems
[01:50.43]which are common to all of you
[01:52.85]and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark
[01:56.48]about the inedible 2 canteen food
[01:58.90]or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties.
[02:02.52]With other audiences
[02:04.85]you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor
[02:07.48]as they will resent
[02:08.44]an outsider making disparaging 3 remarks
[02:11.07]about their canteen or their chairman.
[02:14.50]You will be on safer ground
[02:16.42]if you stick to scapegoats 4 like the Post Office
[02:19.64]or the telephone system.
[02:21.66]If you feel awkward being humorous,
[02:24.58]you must practice so that it becomes more natural.
[02:27.71]Include a few casual and apparently 5 off-the-cuff remarks
[02:32.24]which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.
[02:36.17]Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile,
[02:40.51]so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow
[02:43.93]or an unbelieving look
[02:46.05]may help to show
[02:47.26]that you are making a light-hearted remark.
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[02:50.60]Look for the humor.
[02:52.11]It often comes from the unexpected.
[02:54.63]A twist on a familiar quote
[02:57.56]"If at first you don't succeed, give up"
[03:01.10]or a play on words or on a situation.
[03:04.82]Search for exaggeration and understatements.
[03:09.15]Look at your talk and pick out a few words
[03:11.88]or sentences which you can turn about
[03:13.79]and inject with humor.


1 stomps
v.跺脚,践踏,重踏( stomp的第三人称单数 )
  • This one ends the world, stomps on it, grinds it up and spits it out. 这一部又把世界给终结了,践踏了地球,还碾压她,然后再把她吐出来。 来自互联网
2 inedible
adj.不能吃的,不宜食用的
  • The food was totally inedible.食物完全无法下咽。
  • These chemicals make the fruit inedible.这些化学品使这种水果不宜食用。
3 disparaging
adj.轻蔑的,毁谤的v.轻视( disparage的现在分词 );贬低;批评;非难
  • Halliday's comments grew daily more and more sparklingly disagreeable and disparaging. 一天天过去,哈里代的评论越来越肆无忌惮,越来越讨人嫌,越来越阴损了。 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
  • Even with favorable items they would usually add some disparaging comments. 即使对好消息,他们也往往要加上几句诋毁的评语。 来自互联网
4 scapegoats
n.代人受过的人,替罪羊( scapegoat的名词复数 )v.使成为替罪羊( scapegoat的第三人称单数 )
  • They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program. 他们成了那个计划失败的替罪羊。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Only some of the guards and a minor hotel employee, chosen as scapegoats, were imprisoned. 只有一些保镖和那个旅馆的小职员当了替罪羊,被关进了监狱。 来自辞典例句
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。
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Acetylphenetidine
active channel state
analysis of surplus
arch support
audit memorandum
autoscoring
benching iron
brushite
buried treasure
butyl alcohol-iso
capacity-coefficient
cavitation of clearance
Chivay
chivvying
cigar-boxes
cleft jaw
coenobiosis
collector junction
compressed form
control panel mode
craspedophyte
cutter shaft
decuries
dermatoskeleton
design cycle
disrobed
double cone blender
double engine power unit
driving-point function
employment multiplier
energy feed
eunuchoid type
F.E.S.
fabella
fetid bituminous limestone
finickily
five in one
flowering season
framing lens
fulmenite
gamify
granuloma annulare
gross domestic product deflator
gumbo soils
Hawk Lake
high dielectric constant
immediate fund
immigrantion
involucrate
Kronecker set
Lanzhou
lateral wall
linear time base test
lipoma lipomatodes
loophole certificates
low pedal
marmatite (ferroan sphalerite)
MDCCCXCIX
menthol
mimetic exercise
minimum error potential method
Mission grape
moist soil
molecular electronic energy levels
Moloskovitsy
monarch mt.
monoazo-dyes
multi-system locomotive
nantucket i.
of great nicety
oral dilator
parental authority
pebble-bed high-temperature reactor
plane of no deformation
poison-taker
prairies
radiosensitiser
re-finished
reaction inhibition
reactive power divider
revoking
Rodriquez
running commentaries
runny
sales percentage
SLT-1
solonetzes
sound cement
stellar dynamics
tempa
that's the last straw!
Thladiantha dubia Bge.
tongue toast
twra
ulcering
ulodendron
ultimate long stroke engine
universal extension surgery table
vannevar bushes
wind along
yango
yesavage