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
8-amino-cADP-ribose
ac-count
angularvariation
antiseptic dressing
atas
atrial gallop rhythm
backing condenser
barkcloth
be in good health
book gain
Bracadale, Loch
Caledonia body
Chauvigny
clear the decks
cobalt resinate
cocksurest
compensating tapaer feed wheel
coupled car
deposit in a fictitious name
dermal leishmanoid
disch
disk friction clutch
dogcows
double-beam spectrometer
drawer front
empyoma
ensonification
everyone of us
external auditory canals
finance corporation for industry
fios de ovos
franchised
genus spirochaetas
graded suspension
guhr dynamite
hand grenades
hexacyprone
hippocrepians
hyperosmolar coma
in running order
Inhaca
interlayer dirt
keep someone company
ladle well
lead tester
letters column
long range navigation
looning
lunar seismogram
lustioussmooth finish
magnetic dipole moment matrix
marker buoy
mental work
model drawing
molded laminate
mollify
new-formations
OD's
oil embolism
oil-firing boiler
old-farrant
out of stock
ozone ageing
possibles
potentio-
predrags
primary flight control (pfc)
prisoner under sentence of death
prompt jump reactivity
puffer poison
qingbai glaze with brown mottles
questant
radar scatterometer
recording blank
regional pulmonary function
rheotachygraphy
ride the beam
roboticized
run on errands
semi-crisp texture
send regrets
serophysiology
settlement brochure
siberite
square waveguide
stagnant glacier
steam condensation rate
sugar of lead
Synotis setchuenensis
tgcas
theoretically speaking
tilia americanas
trailing plant
trapezia areolata
trufflelike
Unified Threat Management
vigne
voxmap
warped wall
wire-loop fins
Wādat
XGP