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。
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airborne infrared gunfire locator
aircraft instrument panel
ala kul
anas zonorhyncha
aprosopous fetus
Artemisia annua
Asteridae
at ecological stability
bed bugs
boat crane
bourgets
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cadis
campylotrop
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charcuterie
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close tolerance flame cutting
common ancestor
delta-wye power
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discuring
dry amputation
edkins
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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flow net
free-center-type clamp
fuffies
greater peritoneal sacs
hamamelis
hearsay testimony
high power amplifier (hpa)
homochromatography
hooded cape
infrunite
islanditoxin
IUT
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lantibiotics
laredoes
laveaga
law review
laying-up machine
leptosporella clinopodii
lonely-heartedness
loss of amenity
Loyalty Islands
LSSE
make a secret of
Mansuyia
Millard-Gubler paralysis
mineralogist
Negishi coupling
nominal assets
non-reverse coupling
nonpreemptive discipline
nordlingen
over-night dough
parabolic bundle of rays
perforated stone
place and date of issue
preassumes
price ex-farm
prickless
Production Information Control System
Prφven
pygidial
quasi-linearization
ratio of the investment contributions
s.c.f.
salting strength
scaffold hopping
self grooming
semiforced
set point station
Shen-k'uei
short-wave receiver
stealth aircrafts
steel spirit level
sunkuli
telecommunicational
telephone cross-talk
temperature characteristics of capacitance
time delay
trade diversion effect
trimerogaster cincta
trux
try ... on
ultra-happy
ultrasonic carver
Unari
uncertainness
unible
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vinaconic acid
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