时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之旅行交通购物


英语课

 


Reading Online Reviews 


Marisa: When we go to our favorite vacation spot in two months, let’s stay at a different hotel. 


Oscar: I like the hotel we always stay at. It’s in a convenient location and we’re already familiar with it. 


Marisa: That’s just it. It’s tried and true, but there’s no novelty and excitement in staying in the same place year after year. 


Oscar: I don’t need novelty. 


Marisa: Let’s just consider some of these other hotels I’ve been reading about. They are very highly ranked and their ratings are very good. 


Oscar: You’re putting strangers’ reviews above our own experience? 


Marisa: Of course not, but just look at this hotel. It received three stars out of four, and it has a lot of pros 2


Oscar: Let me see that. It also has some cons 1, such as being noisy and pricy. 


Marisa: Okay, maybe that isn’t the best example. I didn’t notice that they got dinged on those things, but let’s look at a few others. 


Oscar: I’ll keep an open mind, but I’m dubious 3 about online reviews. I take everything I read with a grain of salt. The only people who post reviews are those who love it or hate it. 


Marisa: I’ll just find a hotel that everyone loves. 


Oscar: And that doesn’t break the bank? 


Marisa: Right. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 cons
n.欺骗,骗局( con的名词复数 )v.诈骗,哄骗( con的第三人称单数 )
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 pros
abbr.prosecuting 起诉;prosecutor 起诉人;professionals 自由职业者;proscenium (舞台)前部n.赞成的意见( pro的名词复数 );赞成的理由;抵偿物;交换物
  • The pros and cons cancel out. 正反两种意见抵消。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We should hear all the pros and cons of the matter before we make a decision. 我们在对这事做出决定之前,应该先听取正反两方面的意见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 dubious
adj.怀疑的,无把握的;有问题的,靠不住的
  • What he said yesterday was dubious.他昨天说的话很含糊。
  • He uses some dubious shifts to get money.他用一些可疑的手段去赚钱。
学英语单词
abdominal sternum
adaptabilities
air-atomic power
atomic number 64s
awarely
ball-point pens
be on the ground
berlind
Bermuda Triangle
bite sb's nose off
blomkvist
butyl acetate
Carrick-on-Shannon
cheine
codium tenue
cold-rolled mill
colour former
compatriotship
compound annual rate of growth
contilever saddle
countercomplaints
courtier
couture
crater
cross-matching
Darwinian curvature
dermamyotome
disagreed with
dog-fox
double filter
duodenotomy
een
effective exchange rate
electron donating solvent
epoxy seal transistor
erasible area
extraglomerular mesangial cell
file punch
first sepal primordium
fixed solution
fleet angle compensator
four-port
frequencycompensation
gas-cloud
Gerromorpha
glass measuring device
helodric
hemolysins
hettest
hump
Isidore Of Kiev
ketchupped
lagrow
Lasiodiscus
lobus ventralis hypophysis
lymphotoxemia
maculotriton serrialis
manshiply
manufacturing technique
microtine
middle-click
miss you much
monopodial development
multinational area
overintensity
pack-full
pedionalgia
permanent geodetic beacon
pescs
planetary nebulae
pre-compilations
precipitous
press the flesh
preventive action
primogeniturist
putting through
Recombinate
regular dating
rostrum of corpus callosum
salt bath carburizing
scieropia
scrimping bar
secondary space allocation
shoalest
Signy-l'Abbaye
silver sagebrush
slice of vector
smize
ST_right-and-wrong_matching-and-co-ordinating
sternal orifice
tachydroma bitstigma
tachypacing
take in too much territory
temperate lake
unived
upton sinclairs
uranistic
vary according to
waning moon
week
Weidenberg
well kick-off gas lift