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
.prf
acrylamide polymer
afterfmage test
anode potential
anti tr box
aperture time
application-centric
background emission
Bacteroprotein
balanced-armature pick-up
battery chicken
be on tenterbooks
bissextiles
butt crack of dawn
calymmodon gracilis
Canova
central fault display system (cfds)
chickenwort
chilblained
cis-isomerism
convict system
copper-zinc brazing mixture
countries-by-countries
cyclodan
cysticoduodenal ligament
dedigne
digital link
domino extensible language
draper type pickup
duodenal web
eco economic comprehensive benefit
electric horse-power
entoperipheral feeling
forseys
four-point bit
frequency-shift modulator
front-cutting edge
ground-water dam
guenther
horizontal pressure generator
hujung-do (chung-do)
identity equation
imaging infrared guidance
improper fraction
incipient drying
inspection of the scene of a crime
internet content
isolabeling
left part of a production
lion in the path
logical address plug
lotional
mammodis
matrix polymerization
monikine
Mountain Dale
multiplicates
naritas
necessary consent
negative opening of the spring
Nicolaia elatior
noon sight
one-sixteen
open data path
phytoextracting
pitch diameter gage
Plasmodium danilewskyi
product-safety
profit-concentration relationships
pulverisers
putting in
pyrogeology
rat-proofing
revived stream
ripple voltage
route speed
Rt.Hon.
separated toe
single-line
Somerville and Ross
SoundSentry
staggered bundles
steam turbo-generator
stratum mucosum membranae tympani
substituted enzyme
supraconduction
Syntestan
Syurkum, Mys
tamanoir
terminate and stay resident
tetramethylputrescine
Tomuzlovka
Trajan's Bridge
uncolourable
undersigned all agree
unsolds
unwatery
violin concertos
vortex breaker
Wendeburg
went ballistic
WFNA