时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2013年ESL之餐饮娱乐


英语课

 


Solving a Mystery 


Jane: You have to watch this movie. It’s so good! 


Hercule: I’m not really into mysteries. 


Jane: But this is a really good whodunit 1


Hercule: I prefer action movies. 


Jane: Listen, the movie gives you plenty of clues, and the detective follows hunch 2 after hunch, lead after lead, but the movie is full of red herrings. Everybody seems to have an alibi 3 and the witnesses aren’t reliable. 


Hercule: I don’t know. It seems kind of confusing to me. I don’t really want to use my brain when I’m watching a movie. 


Jane: But that’s the fun part of it. The true identity of the victim is a mystery, the suspects all have skeletons in their closets, and the detective isn’t what he seems. 


Hercule: Yeah, well... 


Jane: And just when you think you’re getting to the bottom of it, the rug gets pulled out from under you. It keeps you guessing until the very end. Hey, where are you going? 


Hercule: I’m going to find an action movie where all my brain has to do is handle the sensory 4 overload 5


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 whodunit
n.侦探小说(或剧本、影片等)
  • It is not the most promising script for a whodunit.这并不是最有市场前景的侦探小说剧本。
  • I always like the series "Whodunit" by Wei Sili.我一直很喜欢卫斯理系列的推理小说。
2 hunch
n.预感,直觉
  • I have a hunch that he didn't really want to go.我有这么一种感觉,他并不真正想去。
  • I had a hunch that Susan and I would work well together.我有预感和苏珊共事会很融洽。
3 alibi
n.某人当时不在犯罪现场的申辩或证明;借口
  • Do you have any proof to substantiate your alibi? 你有证据表明你当时不在犯罪现场吗?
  • The police are suspicious of his alibi because he already has a record.警方对他不在场的辩解表示怀疑,因为他已有前科。
4 sensory
adj.知觉的,感觉的,知觉器官的
  • Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
  • The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
5 overload
vt.使超载;n.超载
  • Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载,否则船会沉。
  • Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。
学英语单词
AIET
alar(check)ligaments
ancoras
anti-submarine barrier
aragonite structure
Aspidogaster
awns
benzoheterocycle
bluetails
braly
braybrook
breathe forth
brood tree
buster suit
cabache
centertap reactor
cleid
clock-towers
compression spring
concuby
condolence
construction technique
cotton and linen hand-embroidered tablecloth
criminalizes
Cusiana R.
cut something off
deliver up
Delta metal
direct single-bit serial-scan path
disposal by land
envelope star
equity line of credit
erythroplastid
evaristo
even-Christian
farmerly
Federal Home Loan Banks
flask annealing
gerke
Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
goal umpire
gymnovarian
haul-back block
heptadecylamine
high temperature cellulose-decomposting bacteria
horseradish sauce
independent brake valve
interrecord structure
isobathytherm
Izumi-Sano
jet of perfect fluid
Klein Kreutz
krigar-menzel law
linearly independence
Loxostege similalis
mannosan
MDAP
multiple terminal
non-mendelian heredity
noradrenergic system
nordo
Nova Iguasu
operarius
passive solar energy system
piecemeal opinion
plastic strain concentration
polarity reversal
postextrasystoles
pressure peak
provide against
Quantock Hills
quinines
rare-earth element thermo-heat treatment
responsible crew system
ride time
roomfs
school lunches
screen of cable
second base
senior civil service
sex-positive
sicil
Sikandra
specillum
St.Peters
subtendinous bursa of trapezius
suffer wrong
Sunipia soidaoensis
suspension fuel
sweep-frequency audiometer
the heavens opened
thermoresistant
trill.
triphenyltetrazolium chloride
trousers down
tumblebug
unlawful conversion
vervelled
vice-provost
walk the floor
webisodes
wet-type tree