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
a grant in aid
areic region
augmented chain complexes
azotogen
balanced mold
Bariri
barra de sao joao
beame
bisquine
blind drunk
bluethroats
Brandos
Bruxelles
cement admixture
chromoptometer
chronological book
deaerated feedwater
decade count
dentin exposure
dithiatopazine
Down link.
draw a long breath
drive sb into a corner
dry electrolytic capacitor
employmentally challenged
Entrance-hole
equal inclination interference
Erithacus
favisms
fermentation time
flood periphery
gamma ray laser
geisels
grievous bodily harm
hangs onto
honey-golds
hydroplastic corer
hypertensive cerebral symptom
ice-minus
Indigofera longipedunculata
Kaldbakur
key coding element location
Klyuchevskaya Volcano
Laotse
laterals
latrons
lipodystropy
managed object
morbus coxae senilis
multi-input comparator
noctiluca miliaris surir
non-industrial
nonfireproof
one-eyed
outseams
percent of harmonic distortion
pipe warm-up
poikilodermacongenital
polygonia c-album asakurai
pradco
prevesica
primordial delirium
publishing empires
put a bridle on one's passion
reaon
recalcifications
reciprocating pump
recomplementation
remaynand
reneger
return-to-zero recording
road stead
rotational substitution
Salamonie River
Salāmatābād
sarodist
scanline
scintillator conversion efficiency
selective construct
senhors
shrinking tolerance
shys
signal statement
sintering line
Siròr
slope distance
Sotério, R.
starting-frame delimiter
statement of manufacturing expense
straight back hand saw
synchronized clamping
system certification
thoriated emitter
to raise a point of order
tourmaline rock
trenching body
trimmed value
turreted steamer
urethroscopes
Vacaria
very -low frequency communication
weft fork limiting wire