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
adjustable horizontal stabilizer
Adusa
American blight
anaclinal
andaspis mori
anti-rumble
application of a surface
aristogeiton
atom-blitz
bacille Calmette Guerin
backcross
best rate of climb
binary alloy
biological therapy
births
boo boos
brilliant pink 5g
canon cancrizans
carcinoma of Cowper's glands
carrier bed
chalkis
claybord
complex fraction
composite hypotheses
comyt
Convolvulus arvensis
CRPO
cubic-spline function
definite iteration
demeton-methyl
desglucoruscoside
Diahexan
diffluency
diplommatina tadai
dredging pipe
Dwekehn
exporter-shipper
eythe
fabrefactions
family thymelaeaceaes
field-theoretic
flat gliding turn
foil window
form feed character
funny ha-ha
gamma-msh
Graecia Magna
high burn up
homogeneity assumption
Hrabal, Bohumil
Hydrophiloidea
instanced
iodoacetal
joltheaded
kairomane
Kampong Lintang
landslide(landslip)
leach out
life area
lowest safe water line
ma-and-pa
macrophoma quercicola togashi
Majaguas, Embalse
manubrium mallei
mclendon
mugs off
mungen
musical dramas
Neapolitan yellow
non-composite signal
Notonecta
novel of manners
nutkin
original thought
peltoperlids
pharbitis
Pipil
ploughhorse
pneumatic power hammer
pneumonomete
preach up
PRINTCON
purpura factitia
record form
red sponge
refining loss
rust cleaning
semi-continuous distillation
six bit byte
snowbelt
solar beam plan
solid rolled center
spotted salamanders
square net winch
target-location
temporary context change
u-shaped curve
varnished tube
wall of fire
wood barging
write a fair hand
Zak