时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2014年ESL之日常生活


英语课

 


Following a High-Profile Court Case 


Danny: Have you been following the Schirru case? 


Carol: Yeah, I have. I think he’s guilty. 


Danny: You’re kidding, right? He’s innocent and this is a show trial. The district attorney is conducting a witch-hunt for his own political ambitions. 


Carol: No, he’s not. It is a high-profile case, but that’s only because he wants to make an example of Schirru. People like him should be off the streets. Putting him in jail sends a message to other criminals. 


Danny: What kind of message? 


Carol: The message that the government is cracking down. 


Danny: I think it’s just grandstanding and Schirru is being made a sacrificial lamb. 


Carol: You can believe what you like, but I think it’s great that the district attorney is taking a stand. 


Danny: Yes, but he seems to be doing it at the expense of real justice. 


Carol: Not from where I’m standing 1. 


Danny: Then you need to find a new place to stand – preferably one without blind spots. 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
学英语单词
a rebel without a cause
air operated control
airglow spectrograph
allotment issued
amniotic navel cord
amphi position
analysis of world income
apen
asserted
avoid theft
ballistic missile defence committee
beroe
bidirectional research
bimetallic strip
binding on all parties
bismuth suboxide
blast furnace burden
burghardt
center line shrinkage
channel distortion
chronoteine
corona cap
cropped ear
depositional mark,depositional marking
dickey-fuller
diplostemony
discontentions
distributing syndicate
domiciled check
dutch oven furnace
easylink
egyptian jasper(agate)
electric suspension gyroscope
enflames
epiphyllae
errhiner
extinguishing pulse
fail-safe valve
four-wheeler
fundamental physics
genus glossopsittas
glossotomy
glyewe
gripping tong
gulf air
half-distance
in-towns
inertia grade
intersection curve
Iraq War
Lamain
level mining
limit states method
magnetic playback head
mail deposit
majola
make a success of
megalosauroid
mesole (thomsonite)
microbiologic leaching
mirror van Helmont's
mirror with glass foot
money payment
monoauxotroph
murrage
naches
nervus phrenicuss
official business leave
original tea
paratypic
patness
picture bounce
planidium
qualitative character
rear vision
rele
root authority
saint petersburgs
Sclear
sector mirror
set-stitched
sitophore sclerite
sleep-talking
stammen
static trial
talker key
Tao Qian
temples of jerusalem
topology of discrete
Triadobatrachus
trigemin
trimarchi
triplex safety glass
truckman
tug-tender
tynebridge
varicella-herpes zoster virus
working light
worm-like process (or vermiform appendix)
yellow berry
zerosum game