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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Aphtit
aquarius the water bearers
aristolochic
Artois, Collines d'
BATRACHOSAURIA
Beagle Channel
body development
Canas de Senhorim
capacity of cylinder separator
catatony
central nerve trunk
cephalic presentation
clothes brush
coefficient of competition
common cattail
company name
compilation scale
contextualization
data clothes
decellularises
dentalman
disenchantingly
dispends
dissymmetric mode
encircled
equity-type investment
fashing plate
fast state
filmzine
flexible finger
gamma detectors
gnat-strainer
granular spheres
grosse
hand-operated grinder
harbo(u)r site
harmony
haslar
high voltage arc welding
hydraulic thrust boring machine
Hypericum wightianum
in sooth
innches penetration per year
JACC
jalpa
Kilburn
knocknobbler
lamellar crystallization
Lap Le
locked oscillator
loncos
magneto-optic(al) Q switch
malignolipin
mamunt
manilla hemps
medical needs
Metastrongylus apri
Mextex
Miandowab(Miyanduab)
microbonding
microsoft certified systems developer
multi-stage evaporator
musketries
nasal margin
neo-realist
oble
open sided planing machine
opposite flanks
over-engineerings
PAP method
penny-a-week
piacenzas
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place of taking in charge
Pseudognaphalium affine
public health work
quasi elastic force
rearomatizing
reserve oil bunker
right-branching
Ryznar stability index
schoenflies codes
shamed
social reconstruction
special weapon training site
swell-rule
take someone up on something
tap hob
tarantara
teacher-preparation
tetramethyl diaminobenzophenone
top step
treuandise
Ulagchin
under gage of
unrevealing
unstable protobitumen
vaudois
Wallenpaupack, Lake
wide - angle lens
winding machine
xylit