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.d.r
afterfood
AGO2
anomalous thermal conductivity
anomoia vana
aquo-complex
ASCII control character
bottles up
buried channe
buttenwieser
c-dot
carcharias tauruss
carousel fraud
Catastrophe Reinsurance
center-line camber
Charles County
cheesed down
China-Japan memorandum trade
chinese american
chiolith
Chirita pinnata
colletotrichum phomoides (sacc.) chester
concrete placeability
copie
corrounder
daddio
dan shu capsule
decanting glass
dephlogistications
digital PBX
dommegeable
Dulce, R.
economic energy
eggplant bush
Escriche
Euonymus hamiltonianus
evoline
facility letter
farewell-to-spring
glossographers
Grant, Duncan
Heian period
hocle-bone
Hybanthus
illlegal
inlease
input logic
Kaithi
Khidzhidimovo
koaia
Koujiacun Formation
lallate
local component
longacting
Lophocereus
map address
maternity department
mesophil(e)
methylstreptimidone
Milak
modulated continuous wave
mucopolysaccharidosis IV
muzes
nonhistones
nursery rhymes
O. L. R.
object based language
oklands
Onosma L.
override control
pancreatone
parapancreatic
pathoclitic
peach-colored
percentage of thread engagement
periscope automatic stellite navigator
principle of double entry bookkeeping
pylori sphincter
Quasi-credit financings
radiotelephone communication
refinishing job
refoveating
ribbon type
rotating limit switch
security for note issue
shifted signal
shipton moth
snag-tooth
stilgoe
Sungarichthys
tapeless workflow
tarnish
Taurica
telluropalladinite
the sierra club
thermovoltmeter
tysinger
undergown
unified action
unsenses
vitriolum caeruleum
water-in-oil type