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
acanthopterous
adenosine diphosphates
air monitoring network
anaesthetic vaporizer
Aspergillus clavatus
authentication server
automatic send receiver
azoreductases
big eight firms
body-centered cubic packing
boorda
butt-welded rail ends
caneland
capsaicinoids
carpentier inverter
cerebral agraphia
chiefhood
cholecystoduodenostomy
choudhary
code conversion instruction
coke low temperature
compartment wall
conductive silver paste
corn cutter
Covedale
cytolysosome
democratic
disconjunct
discretionary portion
ecotelemetry
elastic glue
equal-appearing
extracorporeal irradiation
financial integration
free-dropped
fullered
Galinstan
gold-water
graphic illustration
group of 77
GTF angle
gun-driven rivet
ingeniously
investment workstation
jauron
jazz-musician
La Chapelle-aux-Saints
lily pond
linear transducer
Lomatogonium carinthiacum
lucco
macroeconomic study
made use
measurement-recording system
mind wandering
molyadate
Montlucon
mud ducks
multi-purpose grinding machine
ninghsia
nontutor
normalized constraint
open-access library
Otase
oxidation-reduction system
P. O.
pedas
percussion therapies
physiological pulmonary shunt
pnagus solanacearum
poorly
popists
pyrrhotine
qaddafis
seismic spectrum
shapland
slipper pump
stigmatical
stump remover
submarine emergency buoyancy system
sunskirter
superseparability
tannin cell
tar acid
tautomenial
telescope flint glass
terpinyl formate
thoes
tissue transplant
total specified throughput
transformer lead
triangler
unfruitfully
valla
vanzettis
visual impairments
wallworks
water jacketed mould
Webster Crossing
welding quality
wilmas
Zygophyllum mucronatum