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
ab plane
absorbing pad
aggrievedness
antineoplastic agent
apyretic typhoid fever
aquo-pentamine cobalfichloride
artificial ameba
austempered ductile iron
be ready at excuses
Big Spring
blindfoldings
boob milk
brush ... off
centered scale
closed fist bandage
coke pushing
commutating current
conjugate representation
consummerism
cruciverbalist
cytological (or numerical) nondisjunction
dariel
database administration
Dhuudo
disprovability
drowned glacial erosion coast
embolic nephritis
emmunity
festinating
festival-goers
fiagellosis
fibre lace
fibre saturated level
filter from
firm trading market
franska
gang tool axle lathe
goblinizes
golgen
granteth
grinding-stone
gussing
have a soul above
have long ears
hoodoos
implantation of tooth
individual peasant
initial shock spectrum
irene curie
jute packing
knock oneself out
leachabilities
leggy-iron
light-transfer
mathie seed
merchantship
methyl isopropyl ketone
mission control-center
morselizing
nettle trees
night walking
no-load tap-changer
nontheoretically
pea-in-pod structure
phlomis fruticosas
pisolith
plural phase subcarrier
production-possibility frontier
proximal centrosome
q-signal
rail welding set
re-built
reinforced mat
reoxidized layer type
resin exchanger
retail management
rough plate
Rullbo
saprolegnia diclina
schawd
seed key
sembs
semi-continuous running
semi-hard magnetic alloy
singlehead video tape recorder
sludge seeding
slug
solar energy technology
sphinx-like
splenish
stronghandedly
System extension
Texmelucan
tide duration
Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge
tracheobronchial tuberculosis
tussilago farfaras
uniform state law
vacuating
water drench system
witty
workflow application