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 happy
a.hill
ablative absolute
absent from work without reason
Ahwai
artemisiifolia
Bereketa
biyik
blacksmith welded joint
blowtorches
body track
brake pull rod adjusting screw
branch and bound model
broadcast journalist
cadge
cagebirds
Cajueiro, L.do
carriage of passenger
chain silicate
chatfly
CHIOLOPODA
choupique
circumcomponent of velocity
coalitions
contraculture
coriacellate
database management system
dental elevator
deoxidizes
depreciation declining balance method
drawn-in scale
dynamical equinox
Echandi, Cerro
edelstone
endaunture
entrainment limit
extinguish(ing) material
fortification (of alcohol)
fraudulent debtor
free-living organism
frown-lines
gaffrigged
genus Pollachius
golfingiids
hardware tree
heteroion
high-throughput interconnection structure
Home Premium
hypothalamic hypophysiotropic hormone
image-scanning device
impulse summation
intercepting truck
Jabbas
laser distance measuring instrument
legislatrre
Leptotyphlops
local succeesion
magnetic field pressurization conbustion sintering
monodesmosidic
mosaic dominance
mounting test
musculus unipennatus
NAFTA
national security strategy
NDPA
neurocladism
nodular graphite cast-iron
nondidactic
NWF (nozzle wake frequency)
ophthalmophasmatoscopy
oversea location
paralytic thorax
paunchways
people-intensive
pigeon loft
polygonum aubertiis
porous water proofing
potassium tetracyanoplatinate(ii)
practicers
profit and loss report
quick take
ragery
reference relation
resource requirements planning (rrp)
saturation in back-iron LEM
scandinavian nations
scrunchions
Senecio kuanshanensis
sengler
Silures
solid state memory
source contact
stizolobiumcapitatum(st weet)o.ktz.
sunk draft
thornicrofts
torch lighter
translatresses
traymobile
vehicle emission
vois
wedge-and-sleeve bolt
willingdons