纯正地道美语(外教讲解)147：过份怀疑的
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：纯正地道美语
A: Dan, Dan， dude. You have to come over to my house right now!
B: Is everything OK?
A: Just get over here!
……
A: Come in! Quickly!
B: So, since when is your house a bank?
A: What do you mean?
B: I mean, what’s up with the locks and iron bars on your windows.
A: Security ,Dan, security! You can never be too safe you know! A lot of sickos out there. Just the other day they caught that peeping tom red handed! Had a high power telescope and binoculars 1 by his window.
B: What’s the matter with you? Why are you acting 2 all paranoid?
A: Paranoid? I’m not paranoid! I’m cautious! You see Dan, we have to be on guard at all time! People just invade your privacy as if they knew you! Telemarketers, solicitors 3, even your bank! They have way too much information! I like to keep everything on a need to know basis.
B: OK, well, what did you want to see me about?
A: You are being watched! Be careful Dan! Be careful!
sicko n. 〈美国俚语〉有精神病的人,道德败坏的人
red handed 做坏事或违法的事
paranoid adj. 偏执狂的，过份怀疑的
invade vt. 侵害, 侵扰
I object to our privacy being invaded.
我反对我们的隐私权受到侵害。
need to know basis 只有自己知道
拓展词汇】
schizophrenia n.精神分裂症
the grid 4 能用来追踪别人的信息
trace vt. 跟踪，追踪
They traced the criminal to a house in the city.
他们追踪罪犯到了城里的一座房子里。
peeping tom 偷窥者(特指喜欢偷看裸体女人的好色之徒)
delusion 5 n.错觉，妄想
A;丹，丹，哥们。你必须马上到我家来。
B: 一切都正常吗？
A;快点来就是了。
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A;快进！
B:什么时候你的屋子变成银行了？
A;你是什么意思？
B:我是说，在窗户上的锁和铁栅栏用来干什么。
A;安全，丹，为了安全。要知道你总是不安全的。外面有很多坏人。前几天他们逮到一个偷窥者在干坏事。他窗户边有高倍的望远镜和双目望远镜。
B:你怎么了？为什么如此多疑？
A; 多疑？我不是多疑！我很小心，丹，我们必须一直警惕。就如你所知道的哪有那个，人们喜欢窥探别人的隐私。电话推销，律师，甚至你的银行。他们有太多的信息。我喜欢只有自己知道一切。
B:好吧，你想告诉我什么？
A;你被监视了。要小心！丹，要小心！
- He watched the play through his binoculars.他用双筒望远镜看戏。
- If I had binoculars,I could see that comet clearly.如果我有望远镜，我就可以清楚地看见那颗彗星。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- Most solicitors in England and Wales are in private practice . 英格兰和威尔士的大多数律师都是私人执业者。
- The family has instructed solicitors to sue Thomson for compensation. 那家人已经指示律师起诉汤姆森，要求赔偿。
- In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
- Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。