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
and-or function
apocoptic
bauder
bipolar transistors
blatantly
board clip
Bucsa
Campeche, Estado
candidate-personal crisis
Cardoverina
Caroline of Ansbach
catalogic
cerebrosclerosis
CF/M
cold setting cement
coleseeds
compressed digital transmission
computer-generated filter
contributing cost activity
control rod hang-up
copiotroph
counting-rate computer
crosin
crossing over, crossing-over
cryptographic service provider
ctenus yaeyamensis
cusped index
Desmodium gyrans
desophisticates
Dibent
digital cross-connect
E39
electroencephalophone
existing
fiber cable assembly
fixed-pointer indicator
freedom of religion belief
Freneau, Philip Morin
fuel oil additives
fueled automotive engine
ganglia cardiacum
grey substances
inhalation of siliceous dust
Kazakhskiy Zaliv
laser fusion pellet
lightning round
ludwig boltzmanns
Luganville
microbiostasis
mineral syrup
mixed redices
Mormoops
multiglycoside
multiple system of Trapezium type
multiship
mycotic colitis
niccolum
not safe for work
nuramine
outmantled
panthalassas
papuacola costalis
parameter bound
penalised
personal-injury
philosophical foundation
phosphomannomutases
policeman birds
postindustrial state
priority specification
PTO
quarry waster
rectopexies
Regeneron
resistant to water
reverse battery supervision
rosy in the garden
rubidium pentasulfide
Safana
Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis
self-focusing rectifier
silent gene
soft-liners
spherodoid structure
stamp taxes
standing motionless as if facing a wall
start stare
suicide method
suit someone rihgt down to the ground
suttler
Tarl.
there is little probability that
thread breakage
time synchronism
to put it another way
Tollens' reaction
unicorn birds
unveiling
update window
uredo leucaenae-glaucae
ureterectasis
wearout