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
adodo
aerospikes
allocation of raw materials
aluminium-plated steel
aqueousness
averrable
B. P.
be well out of sth.
bell-jar
branchiostegous
bricknogging
centrifugal basket drier
cextrogire
CN Tower
come into one's kingdom
conioscinella semimaculata
corrins
CR constant
cracklines
craniologist
crytallizing tank
digital line
dimethylallyladenine
display generator
double-consciousness
DRG
drugheads
El Picacho
electro-gas arc welding(egw)
end stopper
Euro-band
extensive selection cutting
forecastle structure
fri.
garnet films
genus hybanthuss
glissile segment
good seamanship
growes
grysbok
gully plugging
Harlowe
harp guitarist
havenet
health and sanitary measures
high frequency sputtering equipment
Hon-jima
hospitalized
I. E. R.
irreducible inconsistency
jackingmachine
jettingly
khoury
kyanitite
lacquer spray machine
launtern
lead-glazed
loss order
lubricating oil by pass purification
multitrack error
Muslims
nanotextured
nonnormal distribution
norepinephrines
overmedications
Pantogar
Paolo Veneziano
path of insertion
pennache -ed
permeable material
Polygonum calostachyum
prenasal process
pyramidography
radiation derivative
radius vectors
rajmahal hills
rejected product
RF oscillation
road white washing
rusticated joint
second order deviation
shopkeepers' books
sinuatrial
soft machinery steel
St-Thibéry
stopping capacitor
substenance
surface oscillations
sympathesis
Tapijulapa
Tarentum(Taranto)
throw into confusion
trade secrets exemption
Tragotragus
Trillium L.
turbulizer
vignettists
VSS (virtual support subsystem)
vulnerability assessment intrusion detector
webbing back
woolly rhino
wosye