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
a matter of debate
aquiles
arithmetic builtin function
asynchronous byte oriented full duplex
basic concept test
bast ring
Begēmdir-Simen Prov.
bindman
bur cotton
carbon dioxide concentrator
Chicago Park
cite chapter and verse for
cleaning fires
clinched
coefficient of partial expansiveness
concurrent microoperation
control gage
Conventional project
curtailment of transfer
de tour village
decarli
deiminases
delayed response mode
Dentaria
depreciation reducing charge method
disconnect state
dumping gear
early in the morning
eh-ph equation
elbaite
endodigin
femoral nerve (or crural nerve)
finger-paintings
forget to
fractional ideal
Frequency Bin
getcurdir
Giraud
glacial drainage
Gladwellian
gonderiosis
hang-luggage
heat element
hound fish
hyperexpansions
hypothalamicpituitarythyroid axis
impedance bonds
interossseous groove
J.T.
Jūniyah
kneading compactor
knows the ropes
lansberg
laxativeness
Learning and Skills Council
lose the seat
Macc.
mcavinn
Merceya
minimum sludge tank capacity
mitification
more rational
Mutsuyoshi
nascita
net succession
nonconditional statement
nunivak
orifice area
oscilloscope (osc)
outlet transformer
pecten magellanicuss
permanent-memory norm
pm speaker
proprietorship of land parcels
Ranunculus muricatus
realtionships
rebanishing
redine
replenishing soimoisture reserve
saddle embolus
service contract act
shifting bed
short-circuit calculation
sichers
sorbed
stub puller
subprefectures
tamarix pentandra pall
tau
tea bag infusion paper
thermodynamics of inorganic chemistry
thyreoid articular surface
top-down stepwise refinement
turbo-electric drive
twin target
typing replaces selection
ultraheavy
uncorrelated variables
underlead
Walt Whitman Bridge
weak interactions
wvu